Rescued Maoists Child Soldiers Joining Main Stream

In Lohardaga district of Jharkhand, once a Maoist stronghold but now a peaceful town, the police have done exemplary work rescuing and rehabilitating some 22 child soldiers over the last three years. Nine of them have been admitted to schools, ten have been reunited with their parents as they preferred to go home, one is in remand home as he had cases against him, while two are in the process of getting admission in a residential school.

Compliments to the police team.

Read this chilling story, of how children were forcibly taken away by the Maoists and trained to fight, by B Vijay Murty published in Hindustan Times...

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