Operation Green Hunt

Operation Green Hunt
	Part of Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
Date	September 2009 – present; (Duration: 14 years)
Location	India's Red Corridor
Status	Ongoing
Belligerents
Government of India CRPF; Indian Armed Forces; Minister of Home Affairs; Ministry of External Affairs;	Communist Party of India (Maoist) People's Liberation Guerrilla Army;
Commanders and leaders
Droupadi Murmu; (President); Narendra Modi; (Prime Minister); Amit Shah; (Minister of Home Affairs); Subrahmanyam Jaishankar; (Ministry of External Affairs); Dr.Sujoy Lal Thaosen; (Director General) ; Anil Chauhan; (Chief of Defence Staff); Manoj Pande; (Chief of the Army Staff); R. Hari Kumar; (Chief of the Naval Staff); Vivek Ram Chaudhari; (Chief of the Air Staff); Rajnath Singh; (Minister of Defence); Giridhar Aramane; (Defence Secretary) Former Pratibha Patil ; Pranab Mukherjee ; Ram Nath Kovind ; Manmohan Singh ; Palaniappan Chidambaram ; Sushilkumar Shinde ; Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna ; Salman Khurshid ; Sushma Swaraj ; A. K. Antony ; Arun Jaitley ; Manohar Parrikar ; Nirmala Sitharaman ; Pradeep Kumar ; Shashi Kant Sharma ; R. K. Mathur ; G. Mohan Kumar ; Sanjay Mitra ; Ajay Kumar ; Bipin Rawat ; A S Gill ; Vikram Srivastava ; K. Vijay Kumar ; Pranay Sahay ; Dilip Trivedi ; Prakash Mishra ; K. Durga Prasad ; R. R. Bhatnagar ; Anand Prakash Maheshwari ; Kuldiep Singh ; Deepak Kapoor ; V. K. Singh ; Bikram Singh ; Dalbir Singh Suhag ; Bipin Rawat ; Manoj Mukund Naravane ; Nirmal Kumar Verma ; Devendra Kumar Joshi ; Robin K. Dhowan ; Sunil Lanba ; Pradeep Vasant Naik ; Norman Anil Kumar Browne ; Arup Raha ; Birender Singh Dhanoa ; Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria ;	Ganapathy; Anand †; Kosa †; Ankit Pandey ; Kishenji †; Charu Majumdar (POW); Kanu Sanyal (POW); Jangal Santhal (POW); Sabyasachi Panda (POW); Prashant Bose (POW); Ashutosh Tudu (POW); Yalavarthi Naveen Babu †; Narmada Akka †; Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee (POW); Deo Kumar Singh †; Milind Teltumbde †; Jagdish Mahto †; Subrata Dutta †; Mahendar Singh †; Anil Baruah †
Strength
• Paramilitary personnel: 100,000 + 10,000 + 10,000 ; • Indian Reserve Battalions: Naga Battalions' 2,000 personnel ; • State Armed Police Forces' personnel: 200,000 ; • Greyhounds ; • Special Operation Group ; • Indian Air Force: MI-17 and MI-17V5 helicopters (and drones)	• People's Liberation Guerrilla Army: 8,000 – 9,000 (September 2013) ; • People's Militia (armed with bows, arrows, and machetes): 38,000
Casualties and losses
1,435 Killed	2,266 killed; 9,714 surrendered; 10,181 arrested
	2,319 civilians killed

Operation Green Hunt is the name used by the Indian media to describe the "all-out offensive by paramilitary forces and the states forces" against the Naxalites. The operation is believed to have begun in November 2009 along five states in the "Red Corridor."

The term was coined by the Chhattisgarh police officials to describe one successful drive against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the state. It was erroneously used by the media to describe the wider anti-Naxalite operations; the government of India does not use the term "Operation Green Hunt" to describe its anti-Naxalite offensive.

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