35 Indian CPRF men killed in Maoist attack on camp in Chhattisgarh
Raipur: Maoist guerillas have killed 35 Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force personnel in an attack on the paramilitary camp in the disturbed Chhattisgarh state of India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the CPI-M central regional bureau has described the January 16 attack on the Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force’s Dharmavaram camp in Pamed area of Bijapur district in the state as unprecedented.
The spokesperson Pratap in a statement released to the media said the attack was a “befitting reply to the recently launched ‘Operation Kagaar-Surya Shakti’ by the Brahmanical Hindutva fascist rulers to eradicate the Maoist movement of Azaadi from Indian hegemony and to the ongoing onslaught on adivasis”.
The Maoist fighters along with thousands of revolutionary masses executed the raid. In the three-hour raid, the guerillas fired more than 600 grenade launcher shells and other India-made grenades with rapid firings on the Indian CRPF camp, he said.
Pratap further said that as many as 35 Indian CRPF personnel were killed and more than 40 were critically injured. Prior to the raid, the guerillas took the entire periphery of the Indian paramilitary camp under their control. The locals disabled the movement of additional Indian forces by blocking the roads with huge tree logs and the guerrillas kept landmines to attack the incoming forces. A Maoist commander Devalu, battalion member Vikram and People’s liberation member Madkam Devalu were killed during the raid.
The Indian police and paramilitary forces barricaded the total area, not allowing the journalists to cover the facts and figures of the raid.
