Red Terror ; Deep in the Jungles of Chhattisgarh, It Is a World of Revolutionary Fantasies and Armed Struggle, Indoctrination and Intimidation. A Report From the Heart of Maoist Insurgency That Poses the Biggest Threat to Internal Security.

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By Satarupa Bhattacharjya in Dantewada

Indravati is a placid river that flows through south Chhattisgarh, originating from Orissa as a tributary of the Godavari. Many kilometres from Dantewada town, in the Abujmarh region, the river becomes a border--on one side is the waning presence of the BJP Government, while in the forests across the Indravati, the CPI (Maoist) reigns supreme. Welcome to the citadel of a revolutionary fantasy in which the enemy is the Indian State. Away from national consciousness, in the remoteness of dispossession, the army of outlaws are at war and the victims are multiplying. The Maoist bloodlust is the biggest threat to the internal security of a stoic India. For, this stream of communism which Lenin parallel army: Cadres at the CPI (Maoist) unity congress in January 2007 had once described as "infantile disorder," practices annihilation of the enemy. Halbi-speaking boatmen with bows and arrows on their shoulders sit idle as there are few passengers. Forest officials often cross the river, reluctantly, as they fear for their lives, as do other government intruders. Security forces reach Abujmarh only for an ambush while private trusts manage government-aided schools. Gonds, Abuj Marias, Halbaas among other tribes live inside the dense jungles spread across vast expanses of earth rich in mineral deposits. Close to 27 per cent of Chhattisgarh's tribal population resides here amid embarrassing poverty and endemic malaria; the lone sound of civilisation being an occasional airplane flying above. The Adivasis harvest small-sized rice korsa for six months and spend the remaining six selling it along with forest products. Tendu leaves are sold to local contractors at rates fixed by the Maoists. Despite living in the shadow of the gun, contractors get away by exploiting the Adivasis.

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Red Terror ; Deep in the Jungles of Chhattisgarh, It Is a World of Revolutionary Fantasies and Armed Struggle, Indoctrination and Intimidation. A Report From the Heart of Maoist Insurgency That Poses the Biggest Threat to Internal Security.

In the primitive economy of Abujmarh, the Left ultras have even designed small irrigational projects. Maoists are referred to as dadas by the tribes who carry out slash and burn cultivation. People's courts or jan adalats are justice delivery systems and Mao Zedong's red book is the sacred text. Revenue management is a serious part of the alternative establishment which propagates planned development through land sharing, cooperative farming and banking foodgrains and seeds. Abujmarh is Janatana Sarkar, the liberated place, which in Maoist parlance would be the model for replication across rural India. Seizure of urban India by encircling ...

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