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Observer Research Foundation (ORF) · India · India declares the Maoist insurgency over; the Red Corridor is down to three districts
Cautions that operational success does not equal strategic victory: Maoist ideology may migrate to urban formations or cross-border links with Northeast groups; Bastar's mining boom must produce dividends for Adivasi communities or the social base for future radicalization persists.
“A Naxal-free India requires more than the elimination of armed cadres; it requires addressing the conditions that enabled six decades of insurgency.”