Fighting the Naxals: India's Enduring War

India, The Maoist Naxal rebellion
Photograph by Brian Sokol for TIME

Homeless
Jimme Midiyami, about 40, sits in the remains of her house in Gumyapal village, near Kirandul town, in the heart of Naxal-controlled territory in Chhattisgarh state, India. She says government security forces, in their fight against the Maoist rebels in the area, burned it down in May 2010.

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