It was the bloodiest chapter of the Naxalite movement in Kerala. And A. Varghese was, to the Adivasis of Wayanad in north Kerala and members of the radical Left, the local variant of Latin American folk hero and Communist idol Che Guevara. In the late Sixties, Varghese had led his band of followers on a killing spree that invoked the Naxalite theory of annihilation of class enemies. Till, on February 18, 1970, the State struck back in a Bolivia-style execution in the jungles of Wayanad. The man who pulled the trigger 28 years ago, constable Ramachandran Nair, reconstructs the execution of Varghese in a statement to Outlook: