Why more women cadres are killed in Chhattisgarh, according to senior police officials having a long stint working in insurgency-hit areas, is their placement in the outer patrolling and external quadrants of the Maoists, as they equally fight from the front.Senior police officers with long experience of working in the conflict-ridden zone of Bastar stated that there being no gender discrimination among tribal communities, the same practice apparently percolated into Maoist organisation. Consequently, the Maoist women cadres have substantial presence — almost 40-45 percent are in the lower and middle order though in their top hierarchy bias persists with no woman given a place in the Central Committee of CPI (Maoist).“The organisational structure of the banned outfit in Chhattisgarh is quite unusual where the women force constitute over forty percent of its strength. Sadly, they are misled Indian tribal women who are capable of performing the role as warrior”, said Brigadier (Rtd) B K Ponwar, jungle warfare expert.
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