'Brainwashing' strategy of Maoists

It has always been seen in Maoist affected areas that Maoist terrorists use psychological warfare tactics to confuse the local youth, teenagers, children and families. Various news, reports and information related to this have already come from Maoist affected areas from Bastar to Jharkhand and Odisha.

According to many reports, Maoists are taking the help of innocent teenagers and youth to carry out any major incident against the system and security forces. Maoists brainwash them and include them in their team, and then make them a part of their terrorist operations.

According to some intelligence reports, after the successful implementation of this strategy by the Maoists in Palamu area, the Maoists have again started brainwashing the teenagers and youth in the Budha Pahad area.

In fact, the way the security forces have increased their penetration into the Maoist hideouts, the Maoists have lost their morale. The Maoist organization is on the verge of weakening and due to this the concern of the top terrorist leaders of the Maoist terrorist organization has also increased. This is the reason why Maoists are now once again resorting to their same strategy with the aim of recruiting new fighters into their organization.

If intelligence sources are to be believed, the Maoists have also kept with them people with knowledge of psychology to implement their strategy. Through these experts, Maoists are brainwashing innocent youth, teenagers and villagers in the name of stories in the name of so-called ideological battle in the interior areas of the forest.

In the stories of Maoists, the rights of the poor and the deprived are being talked about by mentioning the symbols of capitalists, landlords and imperialist powers. With the help of similar activities, the Maoists had misled the youth from Bengal to Bastar in their initial decades and made them join their organization, now once again the Maoists are adopting the same strategy.

According to intelligence input, the police are also being described as allies of capitalists and businessmen for brainwashing the villagers by the informants retained by the Maoists. During this time, these people encourage local teenagers to join the ideology of Maoism through the alleged tyranny of the capitalists as well as the New Democratic Revolution.

The whole system of this strategy works in such a way that the youth and teenagers who are brainwashed by the Maoists, the same person tells their story to other youth and villagers in his village. In this way, the call for democratic revolution against the so-called imperialist forces is being made at the grassroots level.

The success of this strategy of Maoists can be gauged from the fact that some teenagers of the area have fallen prey to these tactics of Maoists and have carried out many major incidents. To break this strategy of Maoists, security forces have also started their operations.

Now in these areas affected by Maoism, the police is working to create awareness among the villagers through street plays and poster banners. Police are now telling the villagers about the terrorist acts of Maoists, how Maoist terrorists blow up government buildings or schools or kill any villager. Apart from this, villagers are also being made aware of the damage caused by Maoist terrorism.

Overall, the situation is such that Maoists have once again come to the strategy of psychological warfare, to which the security forces will also have to respond through psychological warfare. Meanwhile, it is necessary to stop the way Maoists are recruiting teenagers into their group, because the weaker the Maoist organization is, the easier it will be to destroy it.