Shiban Khaibri
The time has come now to deal ruthlessly with those forces which pose a grave threat to peace and internal security of the country. The menace which should have been nipped in the bud has been allowed to grow vertically and horizontally in an alarming proportion calling for a well concerted action to root it out, once for all. The recent gruesome ambushing and attacking a group of our paramilitary forces by Maoists in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh martyring our 14 brave hearts, needs no conventional “We strongly condemn it” approach. It should be the last and the final cowardice act of the day dreamers of bringing hard core Communist rule in India by spilling innocent Indian blood, such should be the approach of tackling them adopted by the Government. The intensity and the extent of this recent attack by Indians on those who are there to save and protect Indians, is never tolerable and the souls of Kanu Sanyal and Charu Mazumdar in the other world must also be disturbed at what their bloody philosophy has been up to.
To underestimate the strength of these Maoists in India on account of a few rebels surrendering to “join the main stream” would be a gross mistake on the part of the Government and the only approach to tackle this insurgency should be that of eliminating them one by one. Extending support and assuring rehabilitation should be only for those who shun violence, lay down arms and join the main stream and no mercy should be for those who want to turn their green and beautiful land red with innocent but precious blood. It may be recalled that the former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had described the Maoist insurgency “as a greatest internal security challenge” and certain conventional offensives were launched against them but beyond pushing them slightly to deeper forest hideouts, no perceptible change in the situation occurred. The track record of 10 years’ UPA rule did nothing perceptible to contain these “red’ terrorists. At least, for the sake of the most sensitive internal security and peace of the country, the coalition Dharma could have not become a hurdle. The parties supporting the then dispensation even “from outside” could have not objected to ruthlessly neutralize these Maoist- Naxal insurgents.
P.Chidambaram, Ex- Home Minister was upright in suggesting deploying helicopter gunships to carry out surgical air strikes at Maoist camps in deep jungles and provide full air support to the state and Para military forces. He was the first to go public about it but “most loyally” admitting later that “my opinion was not found in agreement with the combined cabinet view and that I had to accept it” reveals the conventional ritual approach of UPA regimes to fight this enemy from within, decisively. If we draw a glimpse on the gruesome, barbaric attacks mostly in ambush on our security forces during the last years, it will get revealed that our security forces have lost more than these outlawed. On April 9, 2014, Maoists ambushed and killed 3 jawans of the CRPF in Sukma. On March11, this year, Naxalites ambushed and killed 15 jawans of a CRPF patrol party in Bastar region in Chhatisgarh. Again on March 12, 2014 as many as 16 personnel of our security forces were killed in Jagdalpur in Chhatisgarh, close to the spot where 25 people including some members of a political Party were killed exactly last year by them. On November 27, 2013 Naxalites ambushed and killed 4 Jawans of CRPF. The most gruesome incident of April 6, 2010 can never be forgotten when these “followers” of Mao Zedong ambushed and killed 76 brave hearts of the security forces. Same year, they did an act of sabotage resulting in a massive derailment of a crowded train in West Bengal wherein more than 100 innocent civilians got killed. The list is only illustrative and not exhaustive.
These day dreamers of overthrowing duly elected Government of the Indian people to “usher in a classless society” have destroyed hundreds of schools, institutions, railway stations, infrastructure and even private properties and have killed more than 8500 people between 2010 and 2012 across nine states with particular epicenter around Chhattisgarh. Latest figures between 2012 and Nov. 2014 are not officially available but a trend of their manoeuvrings , strategies of attacks, intelligence net work, funding, availability of arms and ammunition etc; could give a sense of their acquired strength with an aim to wage a bloody war against this nation. How long can we resort to the conventional operations against them with practically no gains on the ground? How long can petty politics be allowed to make best of the alarming situation? How long can we allow the self styled champions of Human Rights activists gain space in political circles and exalt their “views” on TV Channels in debates and discussions under the pretext of “the tribal areas being under developed and exploited” theory and hence the implicit justification of Maoists’ killing spree of our own security personnel? How long can the government not take effective measures to choke their sources of funds and block all channels of acquiring weapons to render them ineffective? How long can a close cooperation and working in tandem between the State and the central Para military forces in areas of intelligence gathering and devising a combined strategy assume a lackadaisical approach? These are a few questions very much central to the menace of effectively crushing Maoist insurgency. The media, especially the electronic one must play a leading role to mobilize public awareness about this grave threat to our internal security with the same enthusiasm as they exhibit in other issues which could be comparatively less important than the one under reference.
Last but not the least, the experience of the Sri Lanka Government in matters of adopting strategy, operational professionalism and political will to tackle the LTTE terror in that country, is worth emulating. The ruthlessness of the LTTE in spreading terror and mayhem in and around Sri Lanka had been phenomenal which engulfed even our country also as the same terror group was behind the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, ex- Prime Minister of India. Not caring for any opinion from any quarters, that country succeeded in containing the terror group effectively with the result that post operations status has been “not a shot fired from any quarter”.
Peaceniks, dialogue mongers, Track 2, 3 or 4 diplomats, self styled Human Rights activists in India may please attain a state of dormancy for some time as it is the Indian blood which is getting spilled. Incidents like the recent serial terror attacks across Kashmir particularly in Uri, Srinagar, Tral etc leaving 21 dead including 11 security personnel martyred, 8 terrorists eliminated and 2 civilians killed, should provide no space to settle political scores between the Political Parties in the country who should resolutely stand united as one entity behind the government to take on terror effectively as enough is now enough. While unnerved and internationally isolated Pakistan and terror groups like Jamat -ud- Dawah are desperate to disturb Kashmir where Indian Democracy has again won vis-à-vis an exceptionally high voter turnout, our combined resolve irrespective of political affiliations should be an all out offensive to root out terror from this country.
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