Once again, the rampaging Maoist movement has violently drawn attention toitself with a succession of daring and bloody attacks that go to the very coreof governance, the credibility of administration, and the sagacity of politicalleadership across extended areas along India's eastern board. The mostsignificant of these was the February 28 landmine blast in Dantewadain Chattisgarh that killed, accordingto the official record, 26 villagers and injured another 40, while they werereturning in trucks after a meeting of the state-sponsored anti-Maoist SalvaJudum campaign. Whilethis was probably the worst attack in the history of the Maoist movement, thecurrent year has already seen a significant number of major Maoist operations: