Naxals behead cop: Just not done

What the naxals did with inspector Francis Indwar in Jharkhand was very very unfortunate. The red movement has been a violent one but before this incident it never looked like one that could be equated with the idiocy of the Taliban.
Indwar was just a foot soldier going about his job. Kidnapping him and then beheading him seems to be the work of some very lazy naxals, the kind who wanted to do something but then went about the shortest and easiest way possible.
Did the naxals of Chottanagpur think that the government would have let free Kobad Ghandy, Chattradhar Mahato and Bhushan Yadav in exchange for Indwar? Indwar was just a lowly inspector and the state couldn’t have cared less. If the naxals wanted to get these guys out, they should have gone for some of the fat cat ministers or senior bureaucrats.
The incident comes on the back of some brownie points the naxals had earned over the past four days. First, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar stated that the Amosi massacre did not seem to be the handiwork of the naxals, something the naxal establishment itself had tried to impress upon the people.
On Wednesday union home minister P Chidambaram during a press briefing in Mumbai clarified that the naxals were not receiving any backing from China and that their funding mechanism was wholly indigenous. Of course the description might have been somewhat different. While Chidambaram called the naxal funding methodology a mix of extortion, ransom and bank robbery, the naxals might themselves be calling this ‘war tax’. In effect what the Home Minister was trying to say was that the red rascal movement is a home-made one, a big thing coming from a government that jumps to look for a foreign hand even in natural calamities if that could help.
But with Francis Indwar, the naxals have undone much. The revolution is an ill wind that blows nobody any good if it leaves behind tears in the eyes of a woman who till yesterday might have thought of herself as just another ‘have-not’ in a huge system governed by a small minority of haves.You idiots owe the people of India an apology.