Indian forces kill 30 tribe community members in Chhattisgarh
Bijapur/Kanker, : In a fresh Indian forces’ violent operations against tribal community at least thirty tribe members were killed in disturbed Chhattisgarh state of India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian forces’ personnel during search operations killed at least 30 tribe members who belong to the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) in two separate places of Bijapur and Dantewada districts in Bastar region of the state on Thursday, officials said.
Of those 26 CPI-M tribes were killed in Gangaloor area of Bijapur district, four were killed in Kanker and Narayanpur area of the state.
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has already ordered the forces to kill all those who are supporting the separation from India and an independent state.
“The Modi government is moving forward with a ruthless approach against Naxalites and is adopting a zero-tolerance policy against those Naxalites who are not surrendering,” Shah wrote on X in Hindi.
With the latest action, 113 tribe members who are being named by Indian forces as Naxalites/ Moists have been killed in the state so far this year. Of them, 97 were killed in the Bastar division comprising seven districts including Bijapur and Kanker.
The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) condemned the encounter as `fake’ and demanded judicial enquiry by a High Court judge and stoppage of combing by Indian forces and called on democratic organizations and the oppressed masses to build a strong, united and independent movement to stop fake encounters, illegal arrests, torture .
Naxalite groups generally have to represent the poorest and most socially marginalized members of Indian society (notably tribal peoples and Dalits [formerly untouchables] and to adhere to the Maoist doctrine of sustained peasant-led revolution. For decades they have waged guerrilla warfare against Indian rule. Naxalite groups have come to control large territories in many of the states of eastern India—notably Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, and West Bengal—and their influence has spread even wider beyond those areas.
