Dantewada:
The physical wounds of the deadly Naxal attacks in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada districts in the past few months may heal, but its psychological scars may become very difficult to deal with for the people living here.
A whole generation of children in this Maoist-affected area is growing up as victims of red terror.
Sunil's father was killed in 2006 by Maoists because he was suspected to be helping the police. Sunil says he was targetted only because policemen ate at the eatery he ran in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh.
"My father was a sarpanch. He started a hotel and policemen used to eat there. That made the Maoists angry and they killed him," he said.
There are 167 victims of red terror at a school in Dantewada - from as young as five and as old as 16. It almost seems utopian compared to the world outside. But when they go back home during vacation the fear of the gun-toting Maoists haunts them all over again.
"We feel scared that they could kill us also because my family lived in the Salwa Judum camp," said Anitha, a student. She saw her father tortured and assaulted before the Maoists killed him four years ago.
As the war with the Maoists enters a more combative and bloody phase, a whole generation next of Chhattisgarh is asking a simple question: What is our fault to deserve this?
A whole generation of children in this Maoist-affected area is growing up as victims of red terror.
Sunil's father was killed in 2006 by Maoists because he was suspected to be helping the police. Sunil says he was targetted only because policemen ate at the eatery he ran in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh.
"My father was a sarpanch. He started a hotel and policemen used to eat there. That made the Maoists angry and they killed him," he said.
There are 167 victims of red terror at a school in Dantewada - from as young as five and as old as 16. It almost seems utopian compared to the world outside. But when they go back home during vacation the fear of the gun-toting Maoists haunts them all over again.
"We feel scared that they could kill us also because my family lived in the Salwa Judum camp," said Anitha, a student. She saw her father tortured and assaulted before the Maoists killed him four years ago.
As the war with the Maoists enters a more combative and bloody phase, a whole generation next of Chhattisgarh is asking a simple question: What is our fault to deserve this?
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