Maoist can stay longer with ammunition and supplies in the bunkers. The strategy is to fight for a longer period.An encounter does not last for a few hours.” Senior police officerAre Maoists get ting ready for a full-fledged war against the police forces and the state? It seems so if one goes through a military document of the CPI Maoists which mentions about setting up bunkers and digging tunnels across the Andhra-Chhattisgarh and Andhra-Orissa borders to fight a longer positional warfare.
Adopting the strategies of the LTTE and other terror groups, these bunkers and tunnels are coming up at key bastions on the borders.
Positional warfare is next to guerrilla and mobile warfare in which the forces fight with the police head on for days.
The police were able to confirm this plan of the Maoists from the documents related to military tactics which were found with the slain Central Military Commission member, Patel Sudhakar Reddy. He was killed in a police encounter in Warangal recently.
It was also found that a mighty military batallion of CPI Maoists was formed in Chhattisgarh and Maharasthra borders.
A senior official in the state police said: “Setting up bunkers is not anything new for them. Earlier, when they were strong in the state they set up makeshift bunkers in Nallamala and North Telangana as part of positional warfare. In Chhattisgarh Dandakaranya, they have now set up more bunkers and dug tunnels to escape and facilitate essential supplies.
They now have expertise in it.” Naxals hiding in the bunkers attack police parties carrying out combing operations.
“They can stay longer with ammunition and other supplies in the bunkers. An encounter does not last for a few hours. The very strategy of setting up bunkers is to fight for a longer period. It may run into a few days to cause maximum loss for the police forces,” the official said. Police said that in Chhattisgarh and other districts in Orissa, the area are not under the control of the state due to various reasons.
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