Left Wing Extremism (LWE)
GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Challenges to Internal Security Source: IE Context: Ten personnel of the Chhattisgarh Police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) were reported killed in an IED attack by Maoists in the state’s Dantewada district. The left-wing extremism (LWE) or Naxal insurgency in India: It originated in a 1967 uprising in Naxalbari (West …