Following in the footsteps of the LTTE and Taliban the Maoists of Lalgarh are experimenting with a combat technique that could transmute the history of Red terror once and for all.
Introduction of school students into the “people’s war” has given the joint security forces a creased forehead so to say. If monthly intelligence inputs received by the West Midnapore police administration is to be believed then at least 225 school students are undergoing training at various places of the wooded terrain spread over 500-600 square km area.
The Maoists of Lalgarh in West Midnapore district now directly commanded by their Andhra Pradesh comrade Kishanji are running at least seven training camps in various forests where they are giving school students —- some dropouts after being indoctrinated others compelled to join —- training to use and fabricate various kinds of weaponry.
They are being trained to plant landmines and fire from sniper rifles, a senior police officer said quoting the intelligent inputs. The security forces are linking the seven murders of alleged CPI (M) members in the past 5 days to the running of security camps. “These people were punished for informing the police about the Maoist activities,” the official said, adding hordes of people were fleeing villages.
The Maoists are working with a strategy. Short of enough manpower supplies from the other States, they want the students, all below 16 to engage the police in gunbattles. “This will not only create problems for the security forces while launching retaliatory strikes but also they will have to bear the brunt of the villagers and face human rights questions if these students are killed during the encounters.”
According to information the camps were being run in the dense Sal-Mohua forests of Garulia, Bhalukbasar, Kumar-bandh, Banishole, Andharia, Bhulagora and Baropelia. Most of these places had been taken by the joint security forces in the initial stages of operation flush-out in Lalgarh.
Introduction of school students into the “people’s war” has given the joint security forces a creased forehead so to say. If monthly intelligence inputs received by the West Midnapore police administration is to be believed then at least 225 school students are undergoing training at various places of the wooded terrain spread over 500-600 square km area.
The Maoists of Lalgarh in West Midnapore district now directly commanded by their Andhra Pradesh comrade Kishanji are running at least seven training camps in various forests where they are giving school students —- some dropouts after being indoctrinated others compelled to join —- training to use and fabricate various kinds of weaponry.
They are being trained to plant landmines and fire from sniper rifles, a senior police officer said quoting the intelligent inputs. The security forces are linking the seven murders of alleged CPI (M) members in the past 5 days to the running of security camps. “These people were punished for informing the police about the Maoist activities,” the official said, adding hordes of people were fleeing villages.
The Maoists are working with a strategy. Short of enough manpower supplies from the other States, they want the students, all below 16 to engage the police in gunbattles. “This will not only create problems for the security forces while launching retaliatory strikes but also they will have to bear the brunt of the villagers and face human rights questions if these students are killed during the encounters.”
According to information the camps were being run in the dense Sal-Mohua forests of Garulia, Bhalukbasar, Kumar-bandh, Banishole, Andharia, Bhulagora and Baropelia. Most of these places had been taken by the joint security forces in the initial stages of operation flush-out in Lalgarh.
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