Bastar's Bloodshed: Maoist Attacks on Innocent Villagers
Maoists also know that the police and security forces these days are dominating them in the forests of Bastar. Maoists and their leaders are being killed on a large scale in the continuous anti-Naxal operations.
After continuous aggressive operations against the Maoists by the security personnel, now the Maoists have not only come on the backfoot but are also killing common tribal villagers to vent their anger.
The condition of the Maoist terrorist organization has now deteriorated due to the way 91 Maoists have been killed in encounters in the last 4 months.
After the aggressive actions of the force, it is being seen that Maoists are also surrendering in large numbers, as a result of which 231 Maoists have surrendered so far in the year 2024.
Seeing the end of their terrorist organization approaching, the Maoists are now venting their anger by killing common tribal villagers. We can see this latest example in Bijapur district of Bastar.
On Thursday (2 May, 2024), Maoists killed two tribal villagers who were cousins in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. The bodies of both were found in the forest. It is being said that Maoists strangled both of them with a rope. Bijapur SP Jitendra Yadav confirmed the murder to the press. The matter is of Tarrem Police Station area.
According to the information, Joga Madvi and Hunga Madvi, residents of Chutwahi village, were cousins. Maoists had kidnapped both of them a day earlier. After this, they were killed in the Kangaroo court (Jan Adalat). One was accused (by Maoists) of being a police informer and the other of giving land for a police camp.
It is being said that in the presence of villagers in the Jan Adalat, Maoists strangled both the tribal youths. After the incident, the Naxalites threw the dead bodies in the forest of the village itself. The family members came to know about this in the morning. After this they took the bodies home.
It is being said that the villagers are putting pressure on the family members to cremate the bodies of both of them soon; they are also being threatened not to go to the police and not lodge an FIR.
SP Jitendra Yadav said that it is not known why the Maoists killed both of them. A police officer said that a camp was opened in the village in the first week of March. The land where the camp is opened is government land. This land has no relationship with these two tribal villagers.
Apart from the deaths of these two innocent people, eight more people have already become victims of this communist terrorism in recent time.
On April 28, Naxalites killed a Congress' tribal leader and former Janpad Panchayat identified as Joga Podiyam at Potali village in Dantewada District.
On April 17, just two days before the Lok Sabha elections in Bastar, Naxalites killed BJP leader and Deputy Sarpanch Pancham Das of Narayanpur.
On March 6, tribal leader Kailash Nag, divisional vice president of the BJP business cell, was kidnapped and killed in Bijapur itself.
On March 1, BJP leader Tirupati Katla was hanged to death by Maoists when he was returning from a wedding ceremony.
On February 14, Maoists slit the throats of a contractor for a tap water scheme in Narayanpur and a young man on suspicion of being a police informant in Sukma.
On February 6, Maoists killed a young man by slitting his throat in Bijapur.
On January 6, a tribal villager was murdered by Maoists on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border.
All these killings are an example of their tactics to terrorise the locals in different regions of Bastar, which would show their presence and terror.
Maoists also know that the police and security forces these days are dominating them in the forests of Bastar. Maoists and their leaders are being killed on a large scale in the continuous anti-Naxal operations.
The Maoists have been triggered by these operations being carried out on the instructions of the government, and this is the reason why they are making innocent villagers their victims.
Report by
Shomen Chandra
Intern, The Narrative
