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Operation Green Hunt
	Part of Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
Date	September 2009 – present; (15 years and 9 months)
Location	India's Red Corridor
Status	Ongoing
Belligerents
Government of India File:CRPF Flag.svg CRPF; Indian Armed Forces; Minister of Home Affairs; Ministry of External Affairs;	Communist Party of India (Maoist) People's Liberation Guerrilla Army;
Commanders and leaders
Droupadi Murmu; (President); Narendra Modi; (Prime Minister); Amit Shah; (Minister of Home Affairs); Subrahmanyam Jaishankar; (Ministry of External Affairs); File:CRPF Flag.svg Dr.Sujoy Lal Thaosen; (Director General) ; Anil Chauhan; (Chief of Defence Staff); Manoj Pande; (Chief of the Army Staff); R. Hari Kumar; (Chief of the Naval Staff); Vivek Ram Chaudhari; (Chief of the Air Staff); Rajnath Singh; (Minister of Defence); Giridhar Aramane; (Defence Secretary) Former Pratibha Patil ; Pranab Mukherjee † ; Ram Nath Kovind ; Manmohan Singh ; Palaniappan Chidambaram ; Sushilkumar Shinde ; Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna ; Salman Khurshid ; Sushma Swaraj ; A. K. Antony ; Arun Jaitley ; Manohar Parrikar ; Nirmala Sitharaman ; Pradeep Kumar ; Shashi Kant Sharma ; R. K. Mathur ; G. Mohan Kumar ; Sanjay Mitra ; Ajay Kumar ; Bipin Rawat † ; File:CRPF Flag.svg A S Gill ; File:CRPF Flag.svg Vikram Srivastava ; File:CRPF Flag.svg K. Vijay Kumar ; File:CRPF Flag.svg Pranay Sahay ; File:CRPF Flag.svg Dilip Trivedi ; File:CRPF Flag.svg Prakash Mishra ; File:CRPF Flag.svg K. Durga Prasad ; File:CRPF Flag.svg R. R. Bhatnagar ; File:CRPF Flag.svg Anand Prakash Maheshwari ; File:CRPF Flag.svg Kuldiep Singh ; Deepak Kapoor ; V. K. Singh ; Bikram Singh ; Dalbir Singh Suhag ; Bipin Rawat ; Manoj Mukund Naravane ; Nirmal Kumar Verma ; Devendra Kumar Joshi ; Robin K. Dhowan ; Sunil Lanba ; Pradeep Vasant Naik ; Norman Anil Kumar Browne ; Arup Raha ; Birender Singh Dhanoa ; Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria ;	Ganapathy; Anand; Kosa †; Ankit Pandey ; Kishenji †; Charu MajumdarTemplate:POW; Kanu SanyalTemplate:POW; Jangal SanthalTemplate:POW; Sabyasachi PandaTemplate:POW; Prashant BoseTemplate:POW; Ashutosh TuduTemplate:POW; Yalavarthi Naveen Babu †; Narmada Akka †; Arun Kumar BhattacharjeeTemplate:POW; Deo Kumar Singh †; Milind Teltumbde †; Jagdish Mahto †; Subrata Dutta †; Mahendar Singh †; Anil Baruah †
Strength
• Paramilitary personnel: 100,000[citation needed] + 10,000 + 10,000 ; • Indian Reserve Battalions: Naga Battalions' 2,000 personnel ; • State Armed Police Forces' personnel: 200,000 ; • Greyhounds[citation needed] ; • Special Operation Group ; • Indian Air Force: MI-17 and MI-17V5 helicopters (and drones)	• People's Liberation Guerrilla Army: 8,000 – 9,000 (September 2013) ; • People's Militia (armed with bows, arrows, and machetes): 38,000
Casualties and losses
Negligible	2,266 killed; 9,714 surrendered; 10,181 arrested
	2,318 civilians killed

Latest revision as of 06:27, 8 December 2022

Operation Green Hunt is the name used by the Indian media to describe the "all-out offensive by paramilitary forces and the states forces" against the Naxalites.^[1] The operation is believed to have begun in November 2009 along five states in the "Red Corridor."^{[citation needed]}

The term was coined by the Chhattisgarh police officials to describe one successful drive against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the state. It was erroneously used by the media to describe the wider anti-Naxalite operations; the government of India does not use the term "Operation Green Hunt" to describe its anti-Naxalite offensive.^[12]

Planning and implementationEdit

A fleet of Mi-17 V5 has been deployed against the Maoists by the Indian Air Force.

In October 2009, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) announced that it was in the final stages of planning the offensive and had received approval from the Union-led government. The Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) would take the lead in the operations against Maoist insurgents.^[13] But in September 2009, the media had already reported a "massive 3 day joint operation" by the CoBRA and Chhattisgarh police against the Maoists in Dantewada.^[1]

At the beginning of November 2009, the first phase of the operation began in Gadchiroli district. As many as 18 companies of the central paramilitary forces were moved into the area in anticipation of the operation.^[14]

In April 2010, Mark Sofer had a conversation with Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and M. K. Narayanan on the subject of the "Maoist extremism" and West Bengal's internal security, and offered assistance by Israel in the state's battle against the Maoists.^[15]

Initially in 2009, the government of India had decided to move 80,000 central paramilitary personnel to wage offensive against the Maoists, strengthened by a fleet of 10 armed helicopters from the Indian Air Force.^[16] On 3 January 2013, the government of India issued a statement that it is deploying 10,000 more central paramilitary personnel in Bastar, Odisha and some parts of Jharkhand.^[2] By May 2013, about 84,000 troops from the CRPF had been stationed in the Red corridor to beef up the offensive.^[17] Apart from the paramilitary personnel, the SAPF personnel deployed in operations against the Maoists are estimated to number around 200,000.^[5] In his analysis in March 2014, Gautam Navlakha has claimed that 286,200 CRPF personnel along with 100,000 personnel from other central paramilitary forces and the SAPF are now engaged in the offensive against the CPI (Maoist) in 10 states of India.^[18] On 8 June 2014, the Minister of Home Affairs officially approved the deployment of another 10,000 troops from the paramilitary forces to fight against the Maoists in Chhattisgarh.^[3]

The Times of India, in May 2013, stated that the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to induce 10,000 more paramilitary personal to move "towards a fight to finish war against Maoists in Red Zone."^[19]

The Indian Army has also been stationed in the Red corridor, however, the Army claims that it is present there to train the paramilitary personnel to fight against the Maoists and denies its direct role in the offensive operations.^[20] The Chief of the Army Staff and the 7 army commanders in mid-2011 had assessed that, if required, about 60,000-65,000 troops from the Indian Army would need to be induced in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal to battle the Naxalites.^[21] On 30 May 2013, the Indian Air Force's Air Chief Marshal declared that apart from the currently operating MI-17 helicopters, the Indian Air Force is inducing a fleet of MI-17V5 helicopters to "provide full support to anti-Naxal operations."^[7]

Recently in August 2014, the Ministry of Home Affairs stated that it is "sending" 2,000 personnel from the Naga Battalions of the Nagaland's Indian Reserve Battalions (IRB) in Chhattisgarh's Bastar to attack the Maoists, which according to The Economic Times, would make Bastar "the most–militarised zone in India." The Naga Battalion personnel are being send to fight the Maoists for a second time, with having battled the Maoists once before in West Bengal.^[4]

The Indian armed forces' personnel use satellite phones and they also have access to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).^[5] Security forces have been using UAVs in anti-Maoist operations for quite some time in Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.^[22] Presently, the UAVs are being provided by the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) and Indian Air Force, but they have not been able to yield desired results for the armed forces. Hence, to further advance the offensive, the Defence Research and Development Organisation has taken an initiative to specially develop UAVs with "lower frequency radars" for the armed forces to "track down" the Maoists.^[23] The NTRO has specially imported 12 drones from Israel for aerial surveillance of Naxalites' activities in the forest region on Andhra Pradesh–Orissa–Chhattisgarh border.^[8]

ReferencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Sethi, Aman (6 February 2013). "Green Hunt: the anatomy of an operation". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Incidents and Statements involving CPI-Maoist: 2013". New Delhi: SATP. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Dahat, Pavan (12 June 2014). "Chhattisgarh gears for 'result-oriented' approach against Maoists". The Hindu. Raipur. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Sharma, Aman (19 August 2014). "Government to send 2,000 para-military men of Naga unit to fight Maoists in Bastar". The Economic Times. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 Krishna Das, R.; Makkar, Sahil; Basak, Probal; Satapathy, Dillip (27 September 2013). "Reds in retreat". Business Standard. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
↑ "Operation Greenhunt starts in Orissa". The Indian Express. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 "Air Force to lend support for anti-Naxal operations". The Hindu. The Hindu Group. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Swami, Praveen (13 March 2014). "CRPF, State police ignored pinpoint warning on ambush". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 March 2014. India's super-secret National Technical Reconnaissance organisation, or NTRO, operates a fleet of 12 Israeli-made Searcher tactical drones for surveillance of the vast forest tracts on the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa-Chhattisgarh border, home to the largest Maoist formations in the country. The expensive investment in remotely piloted reconnaissance assets has not, however, led to success in detecting hundreds-strong Maoist units.
↑ Kumar, Kamal (August 2013). "Analysis: India's Maoist challenge". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
↑ "Datasheet-terrorist-attack-surrender".
↑ "Datasheet-terrorist-attack-surrender".
↑ "There is no 'Operation Green Hunt': Chidambaram". The Times of India. 7 April 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
↑ "'Centre's Anti-Naxal Plan to be Implemented Soon'", Outlook, Mumbai: M/s Outlook Publishing (India) Private Limited, 9 October 2009, archived from the original on 18 July 2011, retrieved 11 March 2010
↑ Ali, Mazhar (2 November 2009). "First phase of Operation Green Hunt begins". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
↑ "Israel to help West Bengal tackle Maoists". Rediff. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
↑ "10 IAF choppers for rebel combat". The Telegraph. New Delhi: ABP Group. 29 December 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
↑ "CRPF will launch fresh operations against Naxals in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand". Indo-Asian News Service. New Delhi: The New Indian Express. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
↑ Navlakha, Gautam (30 March 2014). "Ambush amplifies a struggle". Sanhati. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
↑ Mohan, Vishwa (8 May 2013). "Government to deploy 10,000 more personnel in four states to fight Maoists". The Times of India. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
↑ Thottam, Jyoti (27 June 2011). "Indian Army Raises the Stakes in Its War Against the Maoists". Time. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
↑ "South Asia Intelligence Review: Weekly Assessments & Briefings". Institute for Conflict Management. SATP. 25 July 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
↑ "Bihar Police using UAV Drones to track Maoists Movements". Indo-Asian News Service. Bihar Prabha. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
↑ Bhatnagar, Gaurav Vivek (7 February 2014). "DRDO's UAVs to track down Naxals". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

External linksEdit

[TH-101706-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Sethi, Aman (6 February 2013). "Green Hunt: the anatomy of an operation". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 October 2013.

[SATP-2013-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Incidents and Statements involving CPI-Maoist: 2013". New Delhi: SATP. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

[TH-6107418-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Dahat, Pavan (12 June 2014). "Chhattisgarh gears for 'result-oriented' approach against Maoists". The Hindu. Raipur. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

[ET–40383919-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Sharma, Aman (19 August 2014). "Government to send 2,000 para-military men of Naga unit to fight Maoists in Bastar". The Economic Times. Retrieved 19 August 2014.

[BS-113092700488-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 Krishna Das, R.; Makkar, Sahil; Basak, Probal; Satapathy, Dillip (27 September 2013). "Reds in retreat". Business Standard. Retrieved 10 October 2013.

[greenhunt_start-6] "Operation Greenhunt starts in Orissa". The Indian Express. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2013.

[TH-4763722-7] 7.0 ^7.1 "Air Force to lend support for anti-Naxal operations". The Hindu. The Hindu Group. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

[TH-5778106-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Swami, Praveen (13 March 2014). "CRPF, State police ignored pinpoint warning on ambush". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 March 2014. India's super-secret National Technical Reconnaissance organisation, or NTRO, operates a fleet of 12 Israeli-made Searcher tactical drones for surveillance of the vast forest tracts on the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa-Chhattisgarh border, home to the largest Maoist formations in the country. The expensive investment in remotely piloted reconnaissance assets has not, however, led to success in detecting hundreds-strong Maoist units.

[9] Kumar, Kamal (August 2013). "Analysis: India's Maoist challenge". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

[10] "Datasheet-terrorist-attack-surrender".

[11] "Datasheet-terrorist-attack-surrender".

[12] "There is no 'Operation Green Hunt': Chidambaram". The Times of India. 7 April 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2010.

[13] "'Centre's Anti-Naxal Plan to be Implemented Soon'", Outlook, Mumbai: M/s Outlook Publishing (India) Private Limited, 9 October 2009, archived from the original on 18 July 2011, retrieved 11 March 2010

[toi20091102-14] Ali, Mazhar (2 November 2009). "First phase of Operation Green Hunt begins". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2010.

[15] "Israel to help West Bengal tackle Maoists". Rediff. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2013.

[16] "10 IAF choppers for rebel combat". The Telegraph. New Delhi: ABP Group. 29 December 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

[17] "CRPF will launch fresh operations against Naxals in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand". Indo-Asian News Service. New Delhi: The New Indian Express. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.

[18] Navlakha, Gautam (30 March 2014). "Ambush amplifies a struggle". Sanhati. Retrieved 17 May 2014.

[19] Mohan, Vishwa (8 May 2013). "Government to deploy 10,000 more personnel in four states to fight Maoists". The Times of India. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

[20] Thottam, Jyoti (27 June 2011). "Indian Army Raises the Stakes in Its War Against the Maoists". Time. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

[21] "South Asia Intelligence Review: Weekly Assessments & Briefings". Institute for Conflict Management. SATP. 25 July 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2014.

[22] "Bihar Police using UAV Drones to track Maoists Movements". Indo-Asian News Service. Bihar Prabha. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

[23] Bhatnagar, Gaurav Vivek (7 February 2014). "DRDO's UAVs to track down Naxals". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

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-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[P. Sathasivam]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[V. S. Achuthanandan]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Oommen Chandy]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[N. D. Tiwari]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[E. S. L. Narasimhan]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Konijeti Rosaiah]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[N. Chandrababu Naidu]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[E. S. L. Narasimhan]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[S. C. Jamir]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[K. Sankaranarayanan]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[C. Vidyasagar Rao]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Ashok Chavan]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Prithviraj Chavan]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Devendra Fadnavis]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Banwari Lal Joshi]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Ram Naik]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Mayawati]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Akhilesh Yadav]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Devanand Konwar]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[M. K. Narayanan]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Keshari Nath Tripathi]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Rameshwar Thakur]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Ram Naresh Yadav]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Om Prakash Kohli]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Lalji Tandon]]
-|{{flagdeco|India|size=23px}} [[Kamal Nath]]
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} A S Gill
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} Vikram Srivastava
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} [[K. Vijay Kumar]]
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} Pranay Sahay
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} Dilip Trivedi
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} Prakash Mishra
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} K. Durga Prasad
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} [[R. R. Bhatnagar]]
-|{{flagicon image|Flag of Central Reserve Police Forces.png}} [[Anand Prakash Maheshwari]]
 |{{flagicon image|Flag COAS.svg}} [[Deepak Kapoor]]
 |{{flagicon image|Flag COAS.svg}} [[V. K. Singh]]
@@ Line 112: / Line 65: @@
 |{{flagicon image|Flag COAS.svg}} [[Dalbir Singh Suhag]]
 |{{flagicon image|Flag COAS.svg}} [[Bipin Rawat]]
+|{{flagicon image|Flag COAS.svg}} [[Manoj Mukund Naravane]]
 |{{flagicon image|Naval Ensign_of India.svg}} [[Nirmal Kumar Verma]]
 |{{flagicon image|Naval Ensign_of India.svg}} [[Devendra Kumar Joshi]]
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 |{{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign_of India.svg}} [[Arup Raha]]
 |{{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign_of India.svg}} [[Birender Singh Dhanoa]]
+|{{flagicon image|Air Force Ensign_of India.svg}} [[R. K. S. Bhadauria|Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria]]
 }}
-| commander2        = {{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Muppala Lakshmana Rao|Ganapathy]]
+| commander2        = {{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Muppala Lakshmana Rao|Ganapathy]]<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Anand (Maoist)|Anand]]<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Kosa (Maoist)|Kosa]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} Ankit Pandey <br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Kishenji]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Charu Majumdar]]{{POW}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Kanu Sanyal]]{{POW}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Jangal Santhal]]{{POW}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Sabyasachi Panda]]{{POW}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Prashant Bose]]{{POW}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}}[[Ashutosh Tudu]]{{POW}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Yalavarthi Naveen Babu]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Narmada Akka]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee{{POW}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Deo Kumar Singh]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Milind Teltumbde]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Jagdish Mahto]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} Subrata Dutta{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Mahendar Prasad Singh|Mahendar Singh]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Anil Baruah]]{{KIA}}
 | commander3        =
 | strength1         = {{•}} [[Paramilitary]] personnel: 100,000{{cn|date=July 2020}} + 10,000<ref name="SATP-2013"/> + 10,000<ref name="TH-6107418"/> <br />{{•}} Indian Reserve Battalions: [[Naga Regiment|Naga Battalions]]' 2,000 personnel<ref name="ET–40383919"/> <br />{{•}} [[State Armed Police Forces]]' personnel: 200,000<ref name="BS-113092700488"/> <br />{{•}} [[Greyhounds (Police)|Greyhounds]]{{cn|date=July 2020}} <br />{{•}} [[Special Operation Group]]<ref name="greenhunt start">{{cite news|title=Operation Greenhunt starts in Orissa|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/operationgreenhuntstartsinorissa/598626/0|access-date=28 September 2013|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=1 April 2010}}</ref> <br />{{•}} [[Indian Air Force]]: [[MI-17]] and MI-17V5 helicopters<ref name="TH-4763722"/> (and drones)<ref name="TH-5778106"/>
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 | strength3         =
 | casualties1       = Negligible
-| casualties2       = 2,266 killed<br>9,714 surrendered<br>10,181 arrested<ref>[https://www.satp.org/datasheet-terrorist-attack/surrender/india-maoistinsurgency]</ref>
+| casualties2       = 2,266 killed<br>9,714 surrendered<br>10,181 arrested<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.satp.org/datasheet-terrorist-attack/surrender/india-maoistinsurgency|title = Datasheet-terrorist-attack-surrender}}</ref>
-| casualties3       = 2,318 civilians killed<ref>[https://www.satp.org/datasheet-terrorist-attack/surrender/india-maoistinsurgency]</ref>
+| casualties3       = 2,318 civilians killed<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.satp.org/datasheet-terrorist-attack/surrender/india-maoistinsurgency|title = Datasheet-terrorist-attack-surrender}}</ref>
 | notes             =
 }}
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 The Times of India, in May 2013, stated that the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to induce 10,000 more paramilitary personal to move "towards a fight to finish war against Maoists in Red Zone."<ref>{{cite news |title=Government to deploy 10,000 more personnel in four states to fight Maoists |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-08/india/39116026_1_paramilitary-forces-battalions-security-forces |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523023300/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-08/india/39116026_1_paramilitary-forces-battalions-security-forces |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 May 2013 |first=Vishwa |last=Mohan |location=New Delhi |date=8 May 2013 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=23 September 2013}}</ref>
-The [[Indian Army]] has also been stationed in the Red corridor, however, the Army claims that it is present there to train the paramilitary personnel to fight against the Maoists and denies its direct role in the offensive operations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Indian Army Raises the Stakes in Its War Against the Maoists |url=http://world.time.com/2011/06/27/army-raises-the-stakes-in-fight-against-the-naxals/ |first=Jyoti |last=Thottam |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=27 June 2011 |access-date=23 September 2013}}</ref> The [[Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Chief of the Army Staff]] and the [[Indian Army#Commands|7 army commanders]] in mid-2011 had assessed that, if required, about 60,000-65,000 troops from the Indian Army would need to be induced in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, [[Madhya Pradesh]], Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal to battle the Naxalites.<ref>{{cite web |title=South Asia Intelligence Review: Weekly Assessments & Briefings |url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/Archives/sair10/10_3.htm |volume=Volume 10 (Number 3) |work=Institute for Conflict Management |publisher=SATP |date=25 July 2011 |access-date=24 March 2014}}</ref> On 30 May 2013, the Indian Air Force's [[Air Chief Marshal]] declared that apart from the currently operating [[MI-17]] helicopters, the Indian Air Force is inducing a fleet of MI-17V5 helicopters to "provide full support to anti-Naxal operations."<ref name="TH-4763722">{{cite news |title=Air Force to lend support for anti-Naxal operations |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/air-force-to-lend-support-for-antinaxal-operations/article4763722.ece |work=The Hindu |publisher=The Hindu Group |date=30 May 2013 |access-date=17 February 2014}}</ref>
+The [[Indian Army]] has also been stationed in the Red corridor, however, the Army claims that it is present there to train the paramilitary personnel to fight against the Maoists and denies its direct role in the offensive operations.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Indian Army Raises the Stakes in Its War Against the Maoists |url=http://world.time.com/2011/06/27/army-raises-the-stakes-in-fight-against-the-naxals/ |first=Jyoti |last=Thottam |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=27 June 2011 |access-date=23 September 2013}}</ref> The [[Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Chief of the Army Staff]] and the [[Indian Army#Commands|7 army commanders]] in mid-2011 had assessed that, if required, about 60,000-65,000 troops from the Indian Army would need to be induced in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, [[Madhya Pradesh]], Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal to battle the Naxalites.<ref>{{cite web |title=South Asia Intelligence Review: Weekly Assessments & Briefings |url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/Archives/sair10/10_3.htm |volume=Volume 10 (Number 3) |work=Institute for Conflict Management |publisher=SATP |date=25 July 2011 |access-date=24 March 2014}}</ref> On 30 May 2013, the Indian Air Force's [[Air Chief Marshal]] declared that apart from the currently operating [[MI-17]] helicopters, the Indian Air Force is inducing a fleet of MI-17V5 helicopters to "provide full support to anti-Naxal operations."<ref name="TH-4763722">{{cite news |title=Air Force to lend support for anti-Naxal operations |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/air-force-to-lend-support-for-antinaxal-operations/article4763722.ece |work=The Hindu |publisher=The Hindu Group |date=30 May 2013 |access-date=17 February 2014}}</ref>
 Recently in August 2014, the Ministry of Home Affairs stated that it is "sending" 2,000 personnel from the [[Naga Regiment|Naga Battalions]] of the [[Nagaland]]'s Indian Reserve Battalions (IRB) in Chhattisgarh's Bastar to attack the Maoists, which according to [[The Economic Times]], would make Bastar "the most–militarised zone in India." The Naga Battalion personnel are being send to fight the Maoists for a second time, with having battled the Maoists once before in West Bengal.<ref name="ET–40383919">{{cite news |title=Government to send 2,000 para-military men of Naga unit to fight Maoists in Bastar |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/government-to-send-2000-para-military-men-of-naga-unit-to-fight-maoists-in-bastar/articleshow/40383919.cms |first=Aman |last=Sharma |newspaper=The Economic Times |date=19 August 2014 |access-date=19 August 2014}}</ref>
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 [[Category:Naxalite–Maoist insurgency]]
 [[Category:Operations involving Indian special forces]]
+[[Category:Anti-communist terrorism]]

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