Koelibeda, India, May 5, 2025 (AFP) - Red sunset: India's bloody push to crush Maoist revolt

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2025-05-05

After India's Maoist rebels executed his father, accusing him of spying, the young tribal man dropped out of university to join a controversial paramilitary group hunting down the insurgents. "They claim to be fighting for us, but they kill us," the 21-year-old member of the District Reserve Guards (DRG) told AFP. India is waging an all-out offensive against the last vestiges of its Naxalite rebellion, named after the Darjeeling village in the fo......

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