The massacre of 76 security men in the jungles of Dantewada on Tuesday will be a black day ranking alongside the 26/11 and 7/11 terrorist attacks on India.
For, Monday's inhuman mowing down of the security forces by the Maoists is no less in ferocity and frenzy to challenge India's might and test its patience.
Anger and outrage are a natural fallout of the mind-numbing attack. So is sympathy for the security forces who are often sent like lambs to the slaughter on so-called anti-naxal operations. Hobbled by poor intelligence and tricked by local double agents, theirs is often to merely do and die. Usually for a ridiculously low salary and other emoluments.
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