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What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi?
Stan Swamy had recently published a study of 3,000 people jailed for being members of banned Maoist groups. He found that 97% of them had no such affiliation and that many of their trials were held without lawyers, in a language they didn't understand. He'd filed a case on their behalf in the state court of Jharkhand, where he lived. All of this had embarrassed the government, he said.
#StanSwamy #jharkhand #adivasis #AdivasiRights #ForestRights #maoists #dalits #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #HumanRights #UAPA #BJP #india
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/02/1250799690/india-democracy-modi-priest-jail-death
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What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi?
Stan Swamy had recently published a study of 3,000 people jailed for being members of banned Maoist groups. He found that 97% of them had no such affiliation and that many of their trials were held without lawyers, in a language they didn't understand. He'd filed a case on their behalf in the state court of Jharkhand, where he lived. All of this had embarrassed the government, he said.
#StanSwamy #jharkhand #adivasis #AdivasiRights #ForestRights #maoists #dalits #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #HumanRights #UAPA #BJP #india
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/02/1250799690/india-democracy-modi-priest-jail-death
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In Lush, Ancient Chhattisgarh Forest, Thousands Of Trees Cut To Mine Coal For Rajasthan, Threatening Adivasi Homes, Water, Livelihoods
As the union and state governments clear the second phase of mining operations at a controversial coal mine, over 15,000 trees were cut, in addition to 81,000 cut since 2012. Activists say this is an undercount, estimating that another 399,000 trees face the axe for mining coal in the lush forests of Hasdeo Arand. Adivasis worship the trees as deities, depending on them for livelihood. As protests sweep the villages nearby, the removal of trees has intensified elephant-human conflict.
#CoalMining #deforestation #chhattisgarh #rajasthan #HasdeoForests #HasdeoAnand #ForestRights #TribalRights #AdivasiRights #adivasis #environment #AdaniGroup #BJP #congress #india
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The Hasdeo Bachao Movement: How Adivasis are Challenging Paradigms of ‘Vikas’
The movement has found support from various groups including farmers. 'It is our duty to protect water, forest, and land,' say tribal communities. Freny Maneckshaw writes.
#chhattisgarh #HasdeoForests #HasdeoAnand #AdaniGroup #CoalMining #adivasis #ForestRights #TribalRights #environment #india
https://thewire.in/rights/the-hasdeo-bachao-movement-adivasis-vikas
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Bastar: Children Caught in the Crossfire Between Maoists and Security Forces
The failure to address these grievances of the native Adivasis of these regions has eroded the trust between the villagers and security forces. Prasun Goswami writes.
#chhattisgarh #bastar #adivasis #maoists #ForestRights #FRA #india
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Rahul Yatra: Congress’s political strategy faces too many constraints for a successful execution
Social justice for vulnerable groups is the ideological plank and a focus on tribal, OBC and Dalit voters is the electoral strategy underpinning the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. Pulling it off for the 2024 Lok Sabha election looks a tall order. Asim Ali writes.
#elections2024 #RahulGandhi #BharatJodoNyayYatra #INDIAAlliance #congress #SocialJustice #dalits #OBCs #adivasis #ForestRights #AntiMinorityViolence #india
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Hasdeo Arand Deforestation Raises Questions of Adivasi Justice for Chhattisgarh’s First Tribal CM
A section of activists fighting for Adivasi rights in the state believe that there is no point in having a tribal chief minister if he continues to overlook the community’s priorities to facilitate corporate interests in Chhattisgarh.
#chhattisgarh #HasdeoAnand #AdaniGroup #adani #ForestRights #adivasis #TribalRights #BJPStates #environment #india
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In Chhattisgarh’s mining belt, Congress’s ‘doublespeak’ leaves Adivasi voters disgruntled
The election season in Sarguja region is marked by a sense of resigned hopelessness.
#AssemblyElections2023 #chhattisgarh #sarguja #congress #INC #adivasis #BauxiteMining #bauxite #mining #AdaniGroup #HasdeoAnand #environment #ForestRights #TribalRights #india
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How Adani won a coal block as the sole bidder in a government ‘auction’
In August 2022, the Adani Group won ownership of the Gondbahera Ujheni East coal block in central India, despite there being no other bidders in this so-called ‘auction’. The process is about to be rerun for another coal block in Madhya Pradesh for which Adani was the only bidder. These deposits of coal underlie swathes of forest that are the homelands of tribal indigenous peoples.
#MadhyaPradesh #AdaniGroup #singrauli #CoalMining #GautamAdani #ForestRights #TribalRights #tribals #CronyCapitalism #GautamAdani #BJP #adani #india
https://www.adaniwatch.org/how_adani_won_a_coal_block_as_the_sole_bidder_in_a_government_auction
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Both Congress, BJP Failed Chhattisgarh's Adivasis: Veteran Tribal Leader Arvind Netam
Speaking to The Wire, the former Congress leader said that his new political outfit, Hamar Raj Party, was formed because the Adivasi community was ignored. He promises to fight for 'Jal, Jungle, Zameen'.
#chhattisgarh #adivasis #ArvindNetam #HamarRajParty #SarvaAdivasiSamaj #congress #BJP #INC #tribals #TribalRights #ForestRights #AdaniGroup #GautamAdani #adani #india
https://thewire.in/government/chhattisgarh-adivasis-bjp-congress-arvind-netam
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‘I saw brutality, but also solidarity,’ says Sudha Bharadwaj, author of From Phansi Yard, of her days in prison
Arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case, activist-lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj kept a diary of prison life. Released in 2021, she writes about her experience at Yerawada jail.
#interview #SudhaBharadwaj #BhimaKoregaonCase #activism #dissent #chhattisgarh #ForestRights #TribalRights #adivasis #BK16 #prisons #books #bookstodon #india
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Modi gov’t unlocks forests for business, a pursuit that began in 2015
Modi govt's dogged pursuit of a plan to open forests for commercial plantation began shortly after taking office, documents show. Though it faced pushback for hurting tribal rights and forests, the plan reached a fruition through the recent Forest (Conservation)Act amendment.
https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/forest-conservation-part-two
#ForestConservation #TribalRights #ForestRights #environment #IndustrialPollution #BJP #india
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Inside Odisha's Crackdown on Adivasis: Bauxite Mining, UAPA, and Forest Act
What explains the state crackdown on Dalit-adivasi activists in south Odisha's Bauxite-rich districts?
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/odisha-crackdown-on-dalit-adivasis-fighting-for-land
#odisha #adivasis #dalits #BauxiteMining #UAPA #ForestRights #mining #bauxite #vedanta #environment #CivilRights #DraconianLaws #india
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Tribals Fight Illegal Deforestation, Government Inaction In Madhya Pradesh
In Burhanpur district, forest department staff have illegally demolished homes of Adivasis built on forest land, without serving notices, branding the structures as encroachments. The Adivasis, on the other hand, say forest department officials are protecting tree mafias who are alleged to be colluding with the local administration.
#MadhyaPradesh #burhanpur #adivasis #tribals #deforestation #wildlife #TreeMafia #TimberMafia #demolitions #displacement #PMAY #ForestRights #JADS #MPGovt #environment #india
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Double-Engine: The Union and State Government Must Answer for Manipur
August 3 marks exactly three months since the start of the mayhem in Manipur. Fears of state collusion and complicity in the violence are growing with time. Nandita Haksar writes.
#manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #meiteis #kukis #majoritarianism #christians #churches #BJP #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #article355 #environment #ForestRights #UnionGovt #india
https://thewire.in/politics/double-engine-the-union-and-state-government-must-answer-for-manipur
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Facing the axe: new ‘forest’ definition makes large tracts vulnerable
Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 2006, may pose threat to Odisha’s densely treed Niyamgiri hill range that is fiercely protected by the Dongria Kondh tribe, say experts.
#odisha #NiyamgiriHills #DongriaKondh #FCA2023 #AdivasiRights #IndigenousPeople #adivasis #tribals #ForestRights #FCA #ForestConservation #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #law #SupremeCourt #UnionGovt #india
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In MP, Tribal Villagers Pay a Heavy Price for Demanding Forest Rights, Protesting Tree Felling
Across villages of Burhanpur district, forest officials have booked, arrested, allegedly fired at and allegedly tortured those who have pressed for their forest rights to be recognised.
#MadhyaPradesh #burhanpur #barelas #ForestRights #tribals #MPGovt #BJP #HumanRights #environment #india
https://thewire.in/rights/madhya-pradesh-burhanpur-tribal-forest-rights
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Manipur—a Tale of Institutionalised Violence Repeating Itself but With a Catch
The virulent wave of riots that we have seen since the evening of 3 May is far from spontaneous and unpredictable.
#manipur #ManipurViolence #STstatus #ST #meiteis #kukis #NorthEast #ForestRights #tribals #BirenSingh #india
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With no place to call home, the Gutti Koya tribe fights for survival
Displaced from Chhattisgarh and seeking refuge in Telangana’s forests, they face a grim future.
#chhattisgarh #tribals #GuttiKoya #TribalRights #HumanRights #telengana #ForestRights #InternallyDisplaced #MastIndia #india