West-side story II: Childhood Denied No matter how noble they claim their war is, armed underground outfits short of combatants in their ranks eventually turn to children to fulfill the deficit. And as children are impressionable and can easily be intimidated into obeying orders, they make obedient fighters. Short of combatants to fight the people's war they launched to liberate the common man from age-old suppression, the Maoists were also no exception in thinking in these lines.
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