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May 15, 2010

Crush naxalites ruthlessly

While extreme type of naxal violence at Dantewada resulting in brutal killing of 76 CRPF personnel by laying an ambush still agitates the nation’s mind, Supreme Court is engaged on working out a rehabilitation plan in naxal related operations where even victims of security forces and state sponsored Salwa Judum activists may also be entitled to compensation and redressal of their grievances.

The plan may amount to mainly creating a forum to be headed by a retired judge or a senior civil servant for restoring civil administration in troubled areas that may help bring about reconciliation to a much complicated problem that intricately involves crushing the cadres of an unlawful naxal organization still engaged in armed activities (or struggle) against the state, protecting the tribals and villagers deprived of their forest rights, creating development activities in the said areas so that innocent people desist from ignorantly falling prey to the games of this criminal organization.
Published 11/05/2010
http://samaylive.com/english/nation/articles/676463808.htm




But apart from tackling the said aspects of the problem ,any mid-way halting of operation Green Hunt may result in unwanted escalation of the violence related activities of the Naxals, besides giving undesirable messages about the governments intend in this regard.Naxal attacks on police personnel and police stations carry the additional aims of striking terror in the mind of the populace and plundering the arms, ammunition and weaponry of the police force that also helps them in enlarging their area of unlawful activities. How serious this problem can grow, one has only to see the situation in Nepal across our borders. Though the naxals pretend to cater to the economic and political interests of the underprivileged , their ambitions in fact centre around seizing power through armed means.



There is thus every reason to toughen the national resolve to crush this violence ruthlessly. Colonel Anil Athale who led a team to study the naxal problem in Chhattisgarh in July 2006 tells that naxalities were having an upper hand in facing the ill-equipped police forces. Thus a large number of innocent tribals joined the naxal ranks, seeing them to be on the wining side. Further the “deterrent” effect of government action against violence should not be diluted by making prior declarations about limitations on use of armed forces but government should rather make the option of deploying armed forces open, if necessary.

This may also wean away a large portion of sympathizers that may lower the morale of naxal rank and file.



A clear cut strategy to “isolate, contain and disarm/destroy” the naxal may have to be adopted. Naxalites are known to collect money through extortions and imposing illegal taxes. This may have to be tackled by tightening up the law and order management.Even limited shifting of villagers out of the combat zones should also be considered before full force is deployed to disarm/ destroy the naxals, if found necessary.



This cancerous growth has been spreading rapidly throughout the length and breath of the country and currently has acquired alarming presence in areas of Andhra Pradesh , Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand , Bihar, West Bengal and some parts of North East Region. With Mao’s problem in the neighbouring Nepal having already assumed serious proportions, a timely major action against the naxalities is all the more necessary.





Prime Minister has rightly described Naxalism as the greatest internal threat facing the country. The overall picture in tackling the naxals in Chattisgarh, where 8 CRPF personnel were killed in mine blast on 8th May as well as in other parts of the country look most grim. Any laxity in giving a proper response on suitable scale even by involving the armed forces and air strikes when reports of vast forest areas having been ‘mined’ may prove to be costly to the nation.

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