India’s Maoist insurgency

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India is preparing to strike at Maoist rebels. The 40-year-long Maoist insurgency has claimed more than 600 lives just this year. The BBC’s Tinku Ray traveled to a village in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. It used to be under Maoist control but the government has taken it back.

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