Maoists vow to continue putting bombs in dead bodies

In what could turn out to be a huge worry for the home ministry and security forces dealing with Naxals, the Maoists have declared that they will continue with the tactic of planting bombs in the bodies of killed security personnel like they did in Latehar in Jharkhand recently.

In a written statement dated January 16 on behalf of the Bihar-Jharkhand-North Chhattisgarh Special Area Military Commission of the PLGA, CPI (Maoist) spokesperson Toofan said that since the attacks by security forces on Maoists did not follow any "rules of war", they would also go beyond the rules.

While the "media and the government has termed the strategy to plant bombs inside dead bodies of security personnel inhuman", it has not looked at the "inhuman" manner in which the state forces have been killing and attacking the Maoists, the spokesman said.

The statement also talked about the "inhuman" manner in which dead Maoists were treated by the security forces during encounters and claimed that often, they did not even inform the families of the dead and return the bodies to them.

On planting bombs in the body of a jawan, the CPI (Maoist) statement said, "We have no qualms in admitting that warriors of PLGA had put a time bomb in his abdomen. PLGA warriors, however, have never tortured a jawan who is alive. In fact, we have treated arrested jawans as prisoners of war and even released them. If putting a bomb in a dead body is disrespectful of the dead, then it is a crime committed by doctors who conduct post-mortem. The truth is the sole aim of planting a bomb in the jawan's abdomen (in Latehar) was to cause maximum damage to the hostile central forces. To oppose the atrocities by the central forces in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bengal, we will continue to do this (plant bombs in dead bodies.)"

The statement added, "PLGA wants to make it clear that the bombs planted in the jawan's body were a very simple circuit time bomb which was set in such a way that it would explode either at the spot or when the dead body was being taken away. The doctors were not our targets as it has been made out to be. It was an ordinary circuit that got defused because water seeped into it."

Monday 11 February 2013

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