In yet another tragic incident that unfolded in the forest of Mutwendi of Bijapur, a 10-year-old boy was killed following he accidently stepped upon an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by the Maoists on Sunday, July 28.
The incident occurred when the boy identified as Hidma Kawasi had gone in the nearby forest with cattle when he unknowingly established a contact with the IED resulting in an explosion which left him gravely injured.
Kawasi was then rushed to the Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF’s) nearby camp for primary treatment and was subsequently shifted to Bijapur district hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The tragic incident occurred on the first day of Communist Party of India (Maoist’s) “Shahidi Saptah (Martyred week)” receiving sharp condemnation from all quarters for the cowardly act of planting IEDs in forest areas often leading to civilians causalities.
Reacting to the incident, Vijay Sharma, Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh in a post on X said that “My heart is filled with pain to receive the sad news that an innocent child lost his life after coming under the impact of IED planted by Maoists in Bijapur district.
This is extremely sad and heart-breaking. No amount of condemnation of this act of the Maoists would be enough. Innocent people are continuously losing their lives due to the IEDs planted by them at various places to obstruct the development of Bastar, soon this dark shadow will go away from Bastar, added the Dy CM.
हृदय वेदना से भर गया है, जब यह दुखद समाचार मिला कि बीजापुर जिले में माओवादियों द्वारा प्लांट IED की चपेट में आने से एक निर्दोष बालक की जान चली गई।
बालक हिड़मा कवासी महज 10 वर्ष का था, जो IED ब्लास्ट में गंभीर रूप से घायल हो गया। प्राथमिक उपचार के बाद जिला अस्पताल बीजापुर लाया…
— Vijay sharma (@vijaysharmacg) July 27, 2024
Notably, this is not the first time that a civilian/teenager/kid has been killed in an IED blast in the Maoist infested Bastar division of the State of Chhattisgarh and news pertaining to civilian’s death due to such explosions have been keep coming to the fore on regular intervals displaying the cruel face of the banned outfit who claimed to be fighting for the rights of the local masses.
Maoist’s posters/banners surfaced in West Singhbhum of Jharkhand
The fateful incident at Bijapur occurred hours after the proscribed outfit pasted posters in Jaraikela area of West Singhbhum of Jharkhand on late Saturday’s evening July 27.
According to the information received, posters pertaining to Maoist’s Shahidi Saptah were pasted at several places in Panchpahiya and Domlai villages under Jaraikela Out Post of West Singhbhum district leaving the locals in a state of panic.
In the posters and booklet dropped, the banned outfit has once again displayed their anti-democratic character by making an appeal to strengthen their guerrilla war against the security forces and the government.
CPI Maoist’s Martyrdom week
Notably, the CPI Maoist since its formation in 2004 has been holding a Martyrdom week in the month of July every year commencing usually on July 28 to mark the death anniversary of the party’s ideologue, Charu Mazumdar. The week-long celebration which lasts till August 3 deals with paying tributes to the alleged sacrifice of the Maoist cadres in the ongoing war of CPI Maoist against the Republic of Bharat.
It is pertinent to mention here that the proscribed Maoist outfit took its current form as CPI (Maoist) after the merger of People’s War Group (PWG), active mainly in undivided Andhra Pradesh, adjoining regions of Maharashtra and undivided Madhya Pradesh with the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) operating mainly in undivided Bihar. The merger took place after a long bloody conflict between the groups that lasted for almost a decade in the late 90s with a sole aim to end the democratic process and establish an authoritarian Communist regime through the means of armed revolution.
The outfit has an armed wing known as the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) which came into existence after the merger of armed wings of the PWG and MCC in the year 2000 with an aim to convert itself as the People’s Liberation Army after the success of the proposed revolution. The PLGA draws its inspiration from the Chinese Army (PLA) and is solely responsible for the killing thousands of citizens including personnel of paramilitary forces, policemen and civilians (mostly tribals) of the regions infested by the Maoist terror.
Over the recent years, the banned outfit has suffered major setbacks in their erstwhile bastions of their proposed red corridor in states like Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand and is also on the back foot in their traditional thresholds of Dandkaranya (Bastar) of Chhattisgarh.
The far-left violent organisation has also witnessed a significant drop in their strength in various quarters of the country where they used to be a dominate the day to day affairs of administration during the pinnacle of the Maoist’s movement in 2009-10 and is now believed to be confined to a much lesser territory (45 districts) than their zenith, when they used to have a more or less impact on around 180 districts of the country.
