Special anti naxal operation commandos showing demo to fight with naxals during inaugural ceremony of the Jharkhand Police Duty Meet at Jharkhand Armed police (JAP) ground in Ranch...
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CRPF men on motorbikes during a routine patrol in Chintalnar
Photograph by Tribhuvan Tiwari
With Fatigues Or Without
Security forces on a combing drill walk past adivasi homes in a village near Dornapal
Photo by Tribhuvan Tiwari/Outlook
Bicycles used to transport rice were damaged during an anti-Maoist operation
Photograph by Tribhuvan Tiwari
‘War’ Economy
The rice-hulling and oil-pressing mill built by villagers in Raiguda, burnt down during an anti-Maoist operation.
Special director-general (anti-Naxal operations), Chhattisgarh, D.M. Awasthi on "Why is it important to use local personnel in counter-insurgency operations?"
The miserably poor adivasis of Bastar are caught between two armies, that of the State and the Maoists. The latest Maoist ambush has only made lives worse for villagers.