Maoist landmine legacy haunts India
India’s blood-soaked six-decade Maoist insurgency may be over, but a lethal legacy remains: hundreds of crude landmines planted by the rebels along forest tracks. For decades, Maoist fighters seeded vast stretches of central India’s forests with pressure-operated improvised explosive devices (IEDs), often buried just beneath dirt roads or hidden along jungle footpaths. Rudimentary in design…
