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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The nowhere people -Anshuman Behera

The nowhere people -Anshuman Behera

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published Published on Sep 21, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 22, 2022

-The Telegraph

Communities of Chhattisgarh caught in cross-fire between Salwa Judum and the Maoists

The ghost of the Salwa Judum, a State-sponsored militia that operated in Chhattisgarh, continues to haunt the displaced Gotte Koya tribals. Before the apex court declared the militia unconstitutional, the Salwa Judum was illegally engaged in fighting the Maoists. Caught between the Salwa Judum and the Maoists, many communities were at the receiving end of the violence with the Gotte Koyas, known as the Muria in Chhattisgarh, arguably, being the worst victims. Around 55,000 displaced Gotte Koyas are now living in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha, with the majority found in the Mulugu and the Bhadradri Kothagudem districts of Telangana.

Since their exodus from South Bastar, the ordeal of the Gotte Koyas has only worsened. The State machinery (Telangana’s forest department personnel) has aggravated their vulnerability by occasionally damaging their temporary huts and asking them to vacate the forest land. In the case of the nearly five million internally displaced persons in India, the controversial role played by the Indian State cannot be pushed under the carpet. The State has been an essential stakeholder in contributing to such displacements. It has either favoured one group over another, resulting in the latter being forcibly displaced from its native place; or the State has been an indifferent spectator to internal displacement. In the case of the Gotte Koyas, the State’s complicity in the form of its support for the Salwa Judum should not go uncriticised. There are similar examples — from the northeastern states and Odisha — of State indifference to the plight of the displaced. Without a legal and constitutional framework for safeguarding the interests of the IDPs, the Gotte Koyas are now a ‘nowhere people’. 

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The Telegraph, 21 September, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-nowhere-people-communities-of-chhattisgarh-caught-in-cross-fire-between-two-militant-groups/cid/1887868


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