{"id":72279,"date":"2025-06-12T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/eradicating-indias-jungle-insurgency-can-it-be-done-and-at-what-human-cost"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:37:43","slug":"eradicating-indias-jungle-insurgency-can-it-be-done-and-at-what-human-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72279","title":{"rendered":"Eradicating India\u2019s jungle insurgency \u2013 can it be done and at what human cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say the government\u2019s plan to eradicate the country\u2019s decades-long Maoist rebellion comes at a bloody price \u2013 and questions whether there are motives other than a wish for peace<\/p>\n<p>For decades, guerrilla communist warfare has raged deep in India\u2019s jungles. What began as an uprising in the 1960s, fuelled by inequality and discontent among the poorest, is now a fully fledged Maoist armed struggle vowing to overthrow the Indian state.<\/p>\n<p>But after decades of insurgency and a corresponding state-led crackdown that has left almost 12,000 civilians, militants and security personnel dead, India\u2019s home minister Amit Shah gave a clear-cut deadline earlier this year; the Maoist insurgency would be \u201ccompletely eradicated\u201d by March 2026.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/eradicating-indias-jungle-insurgency-can-it-be-done-and-at-what-human-cost\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say the government\u2019s plan to eradicate the country\u2019s decades-long Maoist rebellion comes at a bloody price \u2013 and questions whether there are motives other than a wish for peaceFor decades, guerrilla communist warfare has raged deep in India\u2019s j&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1847,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72280,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72279\/revisions\/72280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}