Bastar slaughter should spark an honest stock-taking of India's anti-Maoist counterinsurgency
Bastar slaughter should spark an honest stock-taking of India’s anti-Maoist counterinsurgency Firstpost 17 hours ago © Provided by Firstpost Bastar slaughter should spark an honest stock-taking of India’s anti-Maoist counterinsurgency In the summer of 1949, as India was bathed in the glow of freedom, tens of thousands of Adivasis began to march from their homes in Telangana’s villages to new camps along the roads. Two brigades of the Indian Army and some 9,000 armed police had, the previous year, gone to war against the region’s growing communist insurgency. Though hundreds of in...
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