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Naxals continue to target surrendered cadres, third man killed in five days

Naxals continue to target surrendered cadres, third man killed in five days

Author: Vivek Deshpande
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: March 21, 2008

Angered by mass surrenders by their cadres and supporters in Gadchiroli, Maoists have continued their killing spree, with one more surrendered Naxalite being shot dead on Wednesday night in the area of Jaravandi police station.

This takes the death tally in Naxal reprisal killing since Monday to three. Naxalites had killed two surrendered Naxalites from Kondawahi village, also under the Jaravandi police station on Monday.

Incidentally, the police station was featured by The Indian Express as one that wooed back 54 Naxals and their supporters from 11 villages where the CPI (Maoist) had initiated the process of setting up a Janatana Sarkar (People government).

A kilometer away from police station is Kandli village where victim Raju Netam, ofne of the prime mover behind the mass surrender on January 12, belonged.

"On Wednesday morning, he left Kandli along with his brother-in-law (wife's brother) Shivram Usendi on motorcycle for Kasansur village. On Thursday morning, people from sarkheda village, six km from Jaravandi found his body," Gadchiroli superintendent of police Rajesh Pradhan told The Indian Express.

"A chit was found near his body which said he had encouraged the people to surrendere," Pradhan added. The police are also looking for Usendi, Netam's relative, with whom he had left the village. "We had asked Netam not to venture out since there was security threat," the SP further said.

Asked what care was the police taking to protect the surrendered people, Pradhan said: "We have beefed up security around the village from where surrenders have come.

On April 10, 43 Naxalites from six villages in Tadgaon are too had surrendered, 31 of them with weapons. Sudden spurt in surrenders and death of many of their cadres in encounters have given a huge setback to the Maoist in the district.

The Indian Express has reported that many of cadres say they are disillusioned with CPI (Maoist) "failure" to bring people's government and hence had surrenders.

"Normally, Naxals are not known to have killed surrendered cadres since that could send a wrong signal to prospective entrants, but it seems that they are now desperate and are killing the same people who have helped them immensely in the past," Pradhan said.


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