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TO GO WITH India-Maoist-unrest-military,FEATURE by Pratap Chakravarty Indian police commandos take part in an exercise at Combat Operating Base (COB) Arjun in Kanker District some 150 kms from Raipur on April 22, 2010. A huge explosion and men locked in combat on a sun-baked hillside are signs of the Indian government's toughening resolve to wrest back control from a raging Maoist insurgency. The rebels, who are active across east and central India, killed 76 soldiers in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh state on April 6 -- their deadliest strike since the insurgency emerged in 1967. The carnage, which followed an attack in February when Maoists shot 24 policemen in West Bengal state, may prove a watershed in the government's long and fruitless anti-insurgency campaign. The Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College, which has sent 12,500 commandos into battle against the Maoists since 2005 in Kanker, 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Raipur, trains both police officers and paramilitary troops, and the national government plans to set up 20 more such units as it tries to crush the insurgency. AFP PHOTO/MANAN VATSYAYANA (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)