December 20. Naxals attacked the Balimela power station. The station was already underperforming (on the order of 150MW) but they managed to damage the water intake tunnel and bring the system screeching to a halt.
Interesting:
- Sustainable. In addition to the tunnel, the Naxals used on-site materials to set machinery on fire (rather than bringing their own explosives).
- Information operations. Security personnel were overpowered but not injured. Additionally, propaganda left on the scene warned of supplying the industrial centers (seen as evil) with power.
After a while it basically becomes nihilism doesn’t it
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[...] insurgency and a government, as shown in Iraqi insurgent attacks on the power grid and the present Maoist Naxalite uprising in India. When the controlling power in a region cannot provide the basics of life, they lose their [...]