Red retreat

摘要

Just how commandos killed Kishenji, a leading Maoist, is disputed. Long on the run, hunted by 1,000 special-forces troops and police through the leafy "jan-galmahal" of West Bengal, he was, say officials, struck by a hail of shots to his chest in a dramatic shoot-out. Yet his sympathisers, and others who worry about police brutality, note a wound from a bullet fired at close range into his head. They fear he was arrested and executed, and the fight faked.