Five hardcore Maoists including three females surrendered in Malkangiri district of Odisha on Thursday.
Odisha government had declared one lakh rupees reward on heads of each of two male cadres Subba Madkami (22) and Soma Padiami (35) who surrendered. The three surrendered female Maoists were Debe Madkami (30), Laka Kawasi (25) and Bhime Madhi (25). Except Subba, who happens to be from Motu police station area, others were from Kalimela police station limits. All of them surrendered before Malkangiri Superintendent of Police (SP) Mitrabhanu Mohapatra at the district police headquarter.
Subba was an armed cadre of Local Operation Squad (LOS) of cut off area of Balimela reservoir under Malkangiri Koraput Visakha Border Division of outlawed CPI (Maoist) organization. At least 23 cases of Maoist violence including seven murders were pending against him. Soma was an armed cadre of Kalimela LOS.
Among the three female Maoists, Debe and Bhime were wives of former Maoist cadres, who had parted ways with the ultras in the past. Debe was active in the Maoist organization since last ten years and at present she was secretary of a frontal organization for women of Maoists named ‘Biplabi Mahila Sangh’ in Kalimela area. Bhime was an armed cadre, who had taken part in some major Maoist attacks and violence like the Alampaka ambush in Balimela reservoir on June 28, 2008 that had killed 38 security personnel as well as the attack on NALCO mining site at Damanjodi in Koraput district in 2009. Laka was a Maoist militia in Kalimela area since 2004.
After surrender all of them claimed that they had realized futility of violence of Maoist organization and wanted to restart peaceful normal life. According to the SP, all of them would be rehabilitated as per norms of government for surrendering naxalites.
