Raipur: The Sukma region of Chhattisgarh has once again come into focus after 24 CRPF jawans were butchered in cold blood by the Naxals on Monday afternoon.
Sukma is the southernmost district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The region is considered one of the hotbeds of the violent Naxal movement.
There are several factors which make Sukma an ideal ground for movement of naxalites.
The Sukma region shares its border with two states – Odisha and Telengana – also considered a favourite ground for Naxal activities.
Sukma, which is part of the Bastar Region, shares its boundary with the Malkangiri district of Odisha and the Khammam district of Telengana.
The only major mode of transport in Sukma is the public transport buses, which are available for Raipur, Hyderabad, Bhilai, Bilaspur, Vijaywada, Jagdalpur and Visakhapatnam.
Other than buses, jeeps and taxis are also available. While the nearest rail station is in Dantewada, the nearest airport is in Jagdalpur.
Sukma, Naxal hotbed, Sukma region, Chhattisgarh has once again come into focus after 24 CRPF jawans were butchered in cold blood by the Naxals on Monday afternoon.
Sukma is the southernmost district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
The region is considered one of the hotbeds of the violent Naxal movement.
There are many factors which make Sukma an ideal ground for movement of naxalites.
The Sukma region shares its border with two states – Odisha and Telengana – also considered a favourite ground for Naxal activities.
Sukma, which is part of the Bastar Region, shares its boundary with the Malkangiri district of Odisha and the Khammam district of Telengana.
For the first time in three decades, the tricolour was hoisted last year in the village of Gompad, a Naxal stronghold in Sukma district, to celebrate Independence Day.
Maoists, whose writ ran in the area, had been hoisting a black flag in the village, which has been declared a liberated zone by the rebels, on the occasion of Independence Day every year ever since Leftwing insurgency cast its shadow over Bastar nearly three decades ago.
The present ambush took place in the same Dornapal-Chintagufa area, where several ambushes and killings of security forces had taken place in the past including the most deadly one, when 76 personnel were killed in 2010.
The Maoist Liberated Zone is the deadliest area under the control of Left Wing Extremism in the Red Corridor. Sukma, Dantewada and Narayanpur – along with Bijapur, Bastar, Kanker and Kondagaon, form the Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh, which continues to remain the nucleus of Maoist-violence in Chhattisgarh.
Source: Zee News