{"id":235108,"date":"2025-02-09T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/dozens-of-maoist-guerrillas-killed-in-central-india-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T13:53:10","slug":"dozens-of-maoist-guerrillas-killed-in-central-india-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/dozens-of-maoist-guerrillas-killed-in-central-india-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Maoist Guerrillas Killed in Central India, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/09\/multimedia\/09india-maoists-cpgl\/09india-maoists-cpgl-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dozens of Maoist Guerrillas Killed in Central India, Officials Say\" title=\"Dozens of Maoist Guerrillas Killed in Central India, Officials Say\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dozens of Maoist guerrillas were killed in central India by government forces on Sunday, one of the deadliest operations in recent years against leftist rebels who have waged an insurgency that has ebbed and flowed over several decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The operation, in the forested Bijapur area in the state of Chhattisgarh, was carried out against the so-called Naxalite movement, and left 31 rebels dead, along with two members of the police forces, according to the area\u2019s police chief, Jitendra Kumar Yadav.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chief Yadav said the authorities had also recovered a number of AK-47 assault weapons and several other automatic rifles after the clashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe will completely eradicate Naxalism from the country, so that no citizen of the country has to lose his life because of it,\u201d said Amit Shah, India\u2019s home minister, referring to the left-wing insurgency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Maoist insurgency began in eastern India in the 1960s and spread widely in central and southern parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The violence peaked in 2010, when more than 600 civilians and over 250 security forces were killed in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent years, civilian deaths have dwindled, after government operations shrunk the space for the insurgents to operate. The insurgency\u2019s leadership has also struggled, analysts say, in the face of targeted operations, old age and illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Home Ministry told Parliament last year that the threat of leftist extremism had dropped significantly in recent years, in terms of the number of deaths as well as the amount of affected territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Deaths of civilians and security forces related to the insurgency in 2023 were 86 percent lower than at their peak in 2010, the ministry said, adding that the number of districts affected by the violence had shrunk to 38 from 126.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Niranjan Sahoo, who studies left-wing extremism at the Observer Research Foundation, an Indian think thank, said the Maoists were struggling to recruit members, among other problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also said they were concentrated their activities in several districts around the Abujhmad forest, including Bijapur, after suffering losses over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Maoists are at their weakest point, largely because they have lost a lot of their territory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/09\/world\/asia\/india-maoist-guerrillas-naxalite.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Maoist guerrillas were killed in central India by government forces on Sunday, one of the deadliest operations in recent years against leftist rebels who have waged an insurgency that has ebbed and flowed over several decades. The operation, in the forested Bijapur area in the state of Chhattisgarh, was carried out against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/09\/multimedia\/09india-maoists-cpgl\/09india-maoists-cpgl-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3905,183474,137233,9482,183475,273,1177,27899,120],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235110,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235108\/revisions\/235110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}