Maoists kill JD(U) MLA in Jharkhand; Chhattisgarh Home Minister: Casualties due to Maoist violence in Chhattisgarh over 1,000 since 2004, Bastar region most affected
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    • Unidentified Maoists shot dead the former Jharkhand minister and the Janata Dal (United) legislature party leader in Jharkhand assembly, Ramesh Singh Munda and three others including his two bodyguards at Baruhatu village in Ranchi district on July 9. Munda was at a prize distribution function at a school when the gunmen started firing indiscriminately. The 53-year-old Munda represented Tamar assembly constituency in the state assembly since 20001.

    Suspected Maoists also blew up railway tracks and a portion of a government complex housing the office of Block Development Officer (BDO) in Bihar's Jamui district on July 102.

    Meanwhile, the Chhattisgarh Home Minister Ram Vichar Netam, speaking on the floor of the state assembly on July 11, stated that the Maoist insurgency had resulted in the death of 1,093 people since 2004. Netam revealed that the state witnessed 2,784 incidents of Maoist violence in the period January 1, 20040 - June 20, 2008. He further stated that 726 civilians were killed, apart from 243 police personnel and 124 special police officers (SPOs). More than 90 per cent of the incidents and casualties were reported from the Bastar region which comprised the five districts of Dantewada, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Kanker and Bastar. The Maoists were most active in 2006, with 812 incidents of violence3.

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