Raju Modiyam ¨C India¡¯s blood-soaked six-decade Maoist insurgency may be over, but a lethal legacy remains: hundreds of crude land mines 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 ¡ª gelatin, ball bearings and metal fragments packed into a steel lunch box ¡ª they were nonetheless devastatingly effective, say those who fought the insurgency.
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