Officials say that dozens of Maoites fighters were killed in central India

Dozens of Mawwi guerrilla warfare in the center of India were killed by government forces on Sunday, one of the bloodiest operations in recent years against the left -wing rebels who launched a rebellion that has receded and flowing over several decades.

The operation was carried out, in the Al -Gabbour Forest area in the state of Chiashagarah, against the so -called Naxalite movement, and left 31 dead rebels, along with members of the police forces, according to the region’s police chief, Gitindra Kom Yadaf.

President Yadav said that the authorities also regained a number of offensive weapons AK-47 and many other automatic rifles after the clashes.

“We will completely eliminate the flag of the country, so that a citizen in the country does not have to lose his life because of it.”

The Mawi rebellion began in eastern India in the 1960s and spread widely in the central and southern parts of the country.

It reached its climax in 2010, when more than 600 civilians and more than 250 security stories were killed in the conflict.

In recent years, civil deaths have diminished, after government operations have shrunk the area of ​​the rebels. Analysts say that the rebellion leadership has also fought against the targeted, aging and disease operations.

The Ministry of Interior told Parliament last year that the threat of left -wing extremism has decreased significantly in recent years, in terms of the number of deaths and the amount of affected lands.

The ministry said that the death of civilians and security forces related to the rebellion in 2023 was 86 percent less than their peak in 2010, adding that the number of areas affected by violence may reduce 38 out of 126.

Niranjan Saho, who is studying left -wing extremism at the Observer Research Corporation, a Indian thanks, said the Maoists were struggling to recruit members, among other problems.

He also said that they focused their activities in many regions throughout the Abu Pamad Forest, including Bebagor, after suffering losses over the years.

“The Maoists are in the weakest point, largely, because they lost many of their lands,” he said.