Govt launches media campaign against Maoists

New Delhi, Sept 20 (PTI) To isolate the Maoists, the
government on Sunday launched a media blitzkrieg by putting
out an advertisement in national and regional newspapers about
the violence carried out by the Naxals, whom it termed as
"nothing but cold-blooded murderers".

The advertisement carries full particulars and
photographs of seven people, included a four-year-old child,
who were killed by the Maoists in a gruesome manner in
Chhattisgarh and through it the Home Ministry wanted to
highlight the Naxal menace, its barbarity and its impact on
innocent civilians.

"Look at these innocent people -- victims of Naxal
violence. Naxals are nothing, but cold-blooded murderers," the
advertisement says.

This was for the the first time that the Home Ministry
has come out with such an advertisement in three national and
several regional newspapers (in Naxal-affected states) against
the Maoists and Sunday's advertisement is part of government's
larger media plan to corner the Naxals and convince people
about the ill-effects of left wing extremism.

"We wanted to expose the true colours of the Maoists
before the nation because many people still believe in the
ideology of the Maoists," a Home Ministry official said.
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