New Delhi: Almost 1000 people were killed by the Maoist rebels in 2010. The insurgents make last year the bloodiest year of the history of the peasant uprising that began in the West Bengal village of Naxalbari in 1967. an Indian daily reported.Maoist killed 998 people across nine states last year five times the total number of lives lost in rebellion acts in Indian held Kashmir. The report said that 285 police officials and more than 700 civilians poor tribesmen were killed in 2009.
The increase in violence comes in the backdrop of the first combined action by central and state security forces launched a year ago to wrest thousands of square kilometers — the bulk of India’s mineral wealth that lies beneath — from the Maoists.
The presence of federal paramilitary officials in the nine Maoist-affected states was raised from 35 battalions. Maoists ambushed 75 CRPF personnel in the Mukrana jungles of south Dantewada in April last year.
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