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Indian Communists call for probe into government killing of 39 ‘Maoists’ in Maharashtra
Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member Brinda Karat, who sits in the Indian Parliament's upper house for West Bengal [Pic: Debjani Basu/cc]

INDIAN Communists demanded a high-level judicial probe into the killing of at least 39 people in government clashes last week.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) spokeswoman Brinda Karat today challenged the official version of the incidents which took place in the Gadchiroli region of Maharashtra on April 22 and 23.

The Indian government claimed forces engaged in a “fierce encounter” with Naxalite Maoist insurgents on April 22, in a four-hour fight in which an unspecified number were killed. The following day India’s C-60 special forces claimed to have killed at least 12 Maoist commanders in a “successful ambush.”

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