1/20/2024 0 Comments Current armed conflicts in india![]() The members of Salwa Judum are known as ‘Special Police Officers’ or SPOs. The Naxalite child soldiers wing is called the Bal Mandal (Child Forum). Local human rights organisations, including the National Commission for Women, have expressed concern about the employment of child soldiers in Chhattisgarh by the State and the Naxalites. Saurabh and Manish are paid US$ 57 per month by the State Government. In nearby Korba Police Station, Manish Khoonte, a ten-year-old boy is employed as a police officer. ![]() Saurabh is not the only boy in the State Police. Saurabh was employed by the State Police after his father was killed in an ambush by the Naxalites. When questioned, the girls confessed that they had been picked up from school by the Naxalites, and given a few days’ training on armed combat, before being sent out in the company of older members to fight against the State Police and the Salwa Judum, a State-sponsored private militia.Įlsewhere, in Chhattisgarh State’s capital Raipur, five-year-old Saurabh reports for duty every day at the local police station and works as a boy police constable. In the operation, the police arrested two girls, respectively aged 14 and 15 years old, who were wearing school uniforms and were armed with old 303 bore rifles. In April 2007 the Chhattisgarh State Police ambushed a 12-member strong brigade of armed Naxalites (a group similar to the Maoists in Nepal) operating near Dhanora village. ![]() A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre to the 6th session of the UN Human Rights Council ![]()
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