On April 4, 2021, 22 policemen were killed in a gun battle when India’s Central Reserve Police Force came under armed attack by Maoist rebels. Pictured are Indian security forces burying police officers killed in the fighting.
The Communist Party of India (Maoist), a violent far-left group that worships and adheres to Maoist ideology in India, raided a police force in the central Indian province of Chhattisgarh on Saturday (April 3), killing at least 22 policemen and wounding many more. The number of casualties among the Maoist attackers is not yet known.
According to Taiwan’s Liberty Times, the unit attacked by the far-left group was an elite CoBRA unit belonging to India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Twenty-two police officers were killed in the shootout, and 30 others were injured and are currently being treated in hospitals. Local authorities said it was the bloodiest raid by an ultra-left-wing insurgent group in India so far this year.
The newspaper quoted Ashok Juneja, deputy commissioner of the police station where the incident took place, as saying that the police force was on a search mission near a forest in Bijapur district. As they were returning from the search operation, they were ambushed by violent Maoist groups. Dozens of people are still missing, and the exact number of deaths will be announced later. The death toll of the Maoist attackers is not yet known.
On April 3, 2021, a violent Maoist group raided a police force in India. In this photo, paramedics take a wounded soldier on a stretcher to a hospital for treatment after a gun battle. (AFP via Getty Images)
Publicly available information shows that the Maoist violent organization (Maoist), also known as the Naxals, is a general name for a number of political parties and organizations in India that support Maoist ideology and advocate armed resistance to the current regime. It was first established in the 1960s and has about 10,000 members, operating mainly in the poor rural areas of eastern and central India, where the Communist Party of India is the largest Maoist violent organization. For a long time, the Maoist violent organization has launched a variety of armed insurgency operations against the current Indian government, and raids and landmines are the organization’s common means of attack.
For a long time, the Indian government has identified the Maoist violence as the biggest security threat in the country and tried to encircle it, forcing the Communist Party of India’s guerrilla areas to be constantly compressed, and now the Maoist “base” has been compressed into three forested areas with a total area of no more than 8,000 square kilometers.
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