Kerala: Maoist document had warned against attacks
The killings had drawn huge flak many terming it as a fake encounter.
MALAPPURAM: Contrary to the police claims, a recently emerged undated document from the central committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) says they were not to strike against police or armed forces in Nilambur forests. The letter addressing the party’s Western Ghats Special Zonal Committee had clearly warned its cadres not to attack the ‘enemy’ (police and armed force) by underestimating their strength. The letter in digital form recovered from the busted Maoist camp in the forests where two insurgent leaders were gunned down by the forces, was released by the police recently.
The document has cast a shadow of suspicion over the police claims that they attacked them first prompting to strike back during the operation on November 24. The killings had drawn huge flak many terming it as a fake encounter. The letter, which details the political and military campaigns as part of an 18-month plan, puts the estimations of the insurgents in perspective realising the strength of police apparatus.
“The plan we formulated regarding military actions that should be carried in the second and third phases of the 18-months plan is overestimating our own strength and underestimating the enemy’s strength. Once we resort to armed attacks on the enemy, there is every chance for the enemy to resort to a big offensive on us. As part of the 18-month plan, we had only formulated the ideological, political, organisational and military program with the aim of developing the movement but we had not formulated any concrete program to defend ourselves from the enemy offensives (sic),” the letter says.