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Maoist landmine legacy haunts India

Maoist landmine legacy haunts India

India's blood-soaked six-decade Maoist insurgency may be over, but a lethal legacy remains: hundreds of crude landmines planted by the rebels along forest tracks. For decades, Maoist fighters seeded vast stretches of central India's forests with pressure-operated improvised explosive devices (IEDs), often buried
Arunabh SAIKIA AFP 21 Apr 2026
India strangles final Maoist bastion as mining looms

India strangles final Maoist bastion as mining looms

The Maoist rebellion that once held sway over nearly a third of India is being bulldozed into submission in its final forest fortress. Thick clouds of red dust billow skyward as earthmovers cut roads through the Abujhmad hills of India's central Chhattisgarh state, the last holdout of a
Arunabh SAIKIA AFP 21 Apr 2026
India declares victory over Maoist insurgency

India declares victory over Maoist insurgency

India on Monday declared the country free of the Maoist insurgency, fulfilling a long-standing deadline to defeat the decades-long rebellion. Home Minster Amit Shah told parliament India was "free" of the rebels, known as Naxals. "I can say it openly, that we have become Naxal-
Arunabh SAIKIA AFP 30 Mar 2026

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