{"id":19697,"date":"2025-03-20T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=19697"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:54:58","slug":"indian-forces-kill-22-maoist-rebels-one-soldier-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/indian-forces-kill-22-maoist-rebels-one-soldier-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian forces kill 22 Maoist rebels, one soldier dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least 22 Maoist rebels were killed in the jungles of central India on Thursday in one of the deadliest clashes since the government ramped up efforts to crush the long-running insurgency.<\/p>\n

More than 10,000 people have been killed in the decades-long “Naxalite” rebellion, whose members say they are fighting for the rights of marginalised people in India’s resource-rich central regions.<\/p>\n

An Indian paramilitary soldier was also killed in one of two separate skirmishes that broke out in Chhattisgarh state, both of which carried on through the day, according to police.<\/p>\n

“22 Naxalites were killed in 2 separate operations of our security forces,” Amit Shah wrote on social media platform X, using the common Indian name for the insurgent movement.<\/p>\n

Police said the soldier had been killed during a skirmish that broke out soon after dawn in Bijapur district, where 18 guerrillas had also been killed.<\/p>\n

Another four rebels were killed in a separate clash in the state’s south.<\/p>\n

Searches were continuing at both battle sites, with security forces recovering caches of arms and ammunition from both areas.<\/p>\n

“The (Narendra) 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,” interior minister Amit Shah wrote on social media platform X.<\/p>\n

The rebels, known as Naxalites after the district where their armed campaign began in 1967, were inspired by the Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.<\/p>\n

Shah has repeatedly vowed that India’s government would crush the remnants of the rebellion by the end of March next year.<\/p>\n

A crackdown by security forces killed around 287 rebels last year, an overwhelming majority of them in Chhattisgarh, according to government data.<\/p>\n

More than 80 Maoists had already been killed so far this year, according to a tally on Sunday by the Press Trust of India news agency.<\/p>\n

The Maoists demand land, jobs and a share of the region’s immense natural resources for local residents.<\/p>\n

They made inroads in a number of remote communities across India’s east and south, and the movement gained in strength and numbers until the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

New Delhi then deployed tens of thousands of troops in a stretch of territory known as the “Red Corridor”.<\/p>\n

The conflict has also seen scores of deadly attacks on government forces. A roadside bomb killed at least nine Indian troops in January.<\/p>\n

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