The Communist Party of India also became active in attempting to defend the general population from the Razakar militia. It was during this time the Razakars launched a series of attacks on Hindu areas in which they killed livestock, looted, molested women and children, and mutilated and massacred able-bodied persons. The sheer massive extent of the genocide affecting the wide expanse of rural Telangana is not known as the Nizam regime attempted to cover up records of it happening and prevent information from spreading to external media.[9][10]