Dozens of Maoist Gorillas have been killed in central India by government forces on Sunday, one of the deadliest acts against left -wing rebels in recent years, which has hit the insurgency, which in the past decades. Help
According to Jindra Kumar Yadav, the police chief of the area, 31 rebels were killed in the forest Bijapur area of ​​Chhattisgarh, against the so -called Naxalite movement, and two members of the police force. .
Chief Yadav said that after the clashes, authorities also recovered several AK -47 attacker weapons and several other automatic rifles.
Referring to the Indian Home Minister, the leftist insurgency, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said, “We will completely eliminate Naxalism from the country, so that any citizen of the country is also because of this. Don’t have to lose life. “
The Maoist insurgency began in East India in the 1960s and spread widely to the central and southern parts of the country.
The violence took place in 2010, when more than 600 civilians and more than 250 security forces were killed in the conflict.
In recent years, urban deaths have decreased, when government operations shrunk to the rebels to run. Analysts say the insurgency leadership has also struggled.
The Interior Ministry told Parliament last year that the risk of leftist extremism has decreased significantly in recent years, with the number of deaths as well as the quantity of the affected area.
The ministry said that the deaths of civilians and security forces related to the insurgency in 2023 were 86 percent less than their rise in 2010, the ministry added that the number of districts affected by the violence has decreased from 126.
Narajan Sahoo, an Indian think thanks, studies left -wing extremism at the Observer Research Foundation, said Maoists are struggling for recruitment of members, besides other issues.
He also said that after years of damage, he has been focused on several districts around Abujamad, including Bijapur.
“Maoists are in their weakest place, the main reason is that they have lost many of their areas,” he said.
