NAGPUR: Suddenly the Naxalites, who style themselves as protectors of tribals, seem to be on a killing spree targeting the tribal youths in Gadchiroli. The red rebels have eliminated 13 civilians since May and 15 since January this year, almost all of them tribal youths and even some minors, labelling them as police informers. The district, especially the remote interiors, is reeling under fear after the cold-blooded murders.
The most recent spine-chilling incident took place in Chamorshi tehsil where Naxals killed two of the five youths they had abducted. They released three youths after mercilessly thrashing two of them, said a village source. Before the panic could die, the Naxals shot dead another person in Aheri tehsil and dumped his body on Kamlapur-Damrancha Road on Sunday morning. Sharad Narote from Regdi was killed for his desire to join the police.
Source from Gadchiroli said the youths, who cherish a dream to join police or become special police officers, are being singled out by the Naxals. "Most youths who had come for police recruitment opted to stay back in Gadchiroli or in other towns where the Naxal influence is relatively less," said a villager. "These youths are prospective bread earners of the family. Their parents are helpless and marriages of their sisters get jeopardized," the villager told TOI.
Sources in the intelligence department said that the Aheri youth who got killed was mentally disturbed. "It is routine for the Naxals to eliminate mentally disturbed people labeling them as police informers. Especially when such people stray into their territory," said the security personnel.
The Naxals wrath is directed towards the youths having inclination to support police. This is contrary to what senior police officials have claimed. Superintendent of police, Gadchirol, S Vireesh Prabhu told TOI that the Regdi youths had nothing to do with police department. "Naxals are portraying wrong picture about the people they are killing," he said.
Prabhu was, however, not very clear about the strategies to counter Naxals onslaught on innocent tribals. He merely said that police are actively taking part in operations. The recent pamphlets found near the bodies of youths killed near Regdi underlined the fact that the rebels were in no mood to spare anyone failing to follow their diktat of not informing their movements to police. They also vehemently opposed the anti-Naxal appeals by the Chhattisgarh-based Dandakaranya Shanti Sangharsh Committee in the villages of Gadchiroli a couple of months ago through various programmes
The most recent spine-chilling incident took place in Chamorshi tehsil where Naxals killed two of the five youths they had abducted. They released three youths after mercilessly thrashing two of them, said a village source. Before the panic could die, the Naxals shot dead another person in Aheri tehsil and dumped his body on Kamlapur-Damrancha Road on Sunday morning. Sharad Narote from Regdi was killed for his desire to join the police.
Source from Gadchiroli said the youths, who cherish a dream to join police or become special police officers, are being singled out by the Naxals. "Most youths who had come for police recruitment opted to stay back in Gadchiroli or in other towns where the Naxal influence is relatively less," said a villager. "These youths are prospective bread earners of the family. Their parents are helpless and marriages of their sisters get jeopardized," the villager told TOI.
Sources in the intelligence department said that the Aheri youth who got killed was mentally disturbed. "It is routine for the Naxals to eliminate mentally disturbed people labeling them as police informers. Especially when such people stray into their territory," said the security personnel.
The Naxals wrath is directed towards the youths having inclination to support police. This is contrary to what senior police officials have claimed. Superintendent of police, Gadchirol, S Vireesh Prabhu told TOI that the Regdi youths had nothing to do with police department. "Naxals are portraying wrong picture about the people they are killing," he said.
Prabhu was, however, not very clear about the strategies to counter Naxals onslaught on innocent tribals. He merely said that police are actively taking part in operations. The recent pamphlets found near the bodies of youths killed near Regdi underlined the fact that the rebels were in no mood to spare anyone failing to follow their diktat of not informing their movements to police. They also vehemently opposed the anti-Naxal appeals by the Chhattisgarh-based Dandakaranya Shanti Sangharsh Committee in the villages of Gadchiroli a couple of months ago through various programmes
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