Jul 16, 2005 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
Kashipur, Rayagada district and nearby areas in southwest Orissa have been in the news for a number of bauxite mining and alumina refinery projects being set up by the Orissa government in association with various Indian and foreign mining companies. From the very...
Jun 20, 2001 | Adivasis, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
This is a report about the repression of forest struggles and organisation of Adivasi communities by the state in Dewas region of Madhya Pradesh in 2001. It begins by providing a brief description about the region, its people, and the roots of the current problems...
Nov 22, 2000 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
This report presents a critique of the Supreme Court judgment on the Narmada dam. The people’s struggle against the Sardar Sarovar dam began in 1980 with Nimad Bachao Andolan. This was joined by other organizations and subsequently led to the formation of the...
Nov 11, 1997 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Encounters, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
This is the report of a fact-finding conducted jointly by nine democratic rights organisations in the year 1996 into the extra-judicial killings by the police in North Telangana. It starts by providing a background about the region and the CPI (ML) movement, the...
Oct 15, 1997 | Adivasis, Caste, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The organized killing of poor peasants and landless labourers by middle and upper-caste landed armies and retaliation by Marxist-Leninist organizations have been flashpoints in the agrarian scene in Bihar over the last fifteen years. Hence, this is not a new...
Oct 25, 1994 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict
In the Palamu and Gumla districts of Jharkhand (erstwhile Bihar), tens of thousands of people successfully prevented the army from conducting field firing and artillery practice on their land in 1994. Later on, the plan for making the entire area into a firing range...
