Between the missionaries and the maoists

After being taken for a ride by communists by promising paradise, tribals under maoist controlled areas are facing a bleak future having to end their generation succumbing to the diktats of maoist leaders to sterilize.  Under the cover of war, rape is a tool to tame tribal women, and forced sterilization ensures no proof of rape.  Tribals are hounded like never before by christian missionaries and maoist for their piece of tribal flesh.

 

With many Maoists undergoing vasectomy and shying away from joining the mainstream, the Centre today offered to conduct reverse sterilization procedure for Naxals willing to return to normal family life.

In a communication, the Union Home Ministry asked Maoist-hit States to facilitate reverse vasectomy operations of willing Maoist cadres and bear medical costs to help the extremists lead normal family life and have children. No rehabilitation is complete if Maoist cadres cannot return to normal family life and have children. Hence, there is a need to ascertain the status of the surrendered or arrested Maoist cadres and wherever necessary facilitate their return to normal family life.

This process will also reduce the temptation of the cadres to return to Maoist fold. Hence, State Governments should consider facilitating vasectomy reversal operations of willing Maoists. Since most sterilization surgeries are conducted in a crude manner by local quacks, if the reversal operation has to be done in a higher medical centre, the Government should bear the costs, the communication said.

Forced sterilization of lower cadres of Maoists by top leadership has been in practice for years. The medical procedure is conducted apparently to keep the cadres perpetually battle fit and also to close the option of leading a family life away from Maoist fold.
In fact, pre-condition for many marriages between male and female cadres is male sterilization to prevent filial attachments. This practice has led to surrender by a sizeable number of Maoist cadres over the years, especially in Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand. Recently, two surrendered Maoists cadres had undergone vasectomy reversal surgery successfully in Chhattisgarh.

The Home Ministry told the States to give the campaign utmost importance to increase awareness and communicate to the Maoist cadres through Government machinery and NGOs that vasectomy is reversible as this may motivate them to leave the Maoist fold.

Concerned over the widespread practice of forced sterilization on armed Maoist cadres as part of a CPI (Maoist) strategy to make them battle-ready in perpetuity, the government has decided to offer vasectomy reversal to arrested and surrendered Naxalites who were made to undergo the "crude" sterilization procedure.

The Union home ministry has, in an advisory to the nine Left-wing extremism-hit states sent this month, asked the latter to address the issue of forced vasectomy conducted on lower/tribal cadres of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) — the military wing of Red ultras — within the ambit of the surrender-cum-rehabilitation policy. Drawing the states' attention to the Maoist pre-condition of compulsory vasectomy for marriage between the cadres fighting for military companies, platoons and dalams, the Centre has advised the states to facilitate reversal surgeries of willing insurgents, the cost of which must be borne by the government.