PTI: New Delhi: Thursday,
March 13, 2014.
Over 12,000
people, including security force personnel, have been killed by Naxals in nine
Left Wing Extremism-hit states in the past 20 years.
Of the total
12,183 people killed, 9,471 were civilians and 2,712 central and state security
force personnel, the Home Ministry said in reply to an RTI query.
The killings
were reported in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.