Topic: Adivasi

National Coalition for Strengthening SCs and STs (PoA) Act (NCSPA), a platform of more than 500 Dalits and Adivasis civil society organisations, communities, leaders, and activists welcomes the release of the Crime in India 2020 report.

A recent horrific video of a tribal man named Kanhaiya being tied to a truck and dragged through the streets by a group of 8 men after being thrashed by the assailants, went viral on social media leaving viewers shaken. The tribal man succumbed to his injuries hours after the mob attack.

What started as a neighbourhood dispute in Attappady, became intense with interference of police and NGO cum land mafia. Weeks later legislative assembly brought up the issue, only to give a clean chit to police.

“Adivasi communities should not be painted in Hindu colours, we have our own identity, and our own laws and customs,” Arjun Mehar, a member of the Meena Community told Maktoob. 

Jesuit priests, activists, friends, journalists, and family of Father Stan Swamy have organised a condolence meeting for the "people's priest who became the first martyr of BK-16 prisoners" after he succumbed to death following a year-long imprisonment as an under-trial prisoner under the draconian UAPA in the Elgaar Parishad case.

Deeply outraged by the arbitrary incarceration of Hidme Markam, an Adivasi human rights defender and environmental activist, for over 42 days, more than a thousand activists, academics, concerned citizens from across the globe sent a petition to Bhupesh Baghel, the Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh calling upon him to immediate ensure the release of Hidme Markam and take pro-active steps to end the cycle of repression against Adivasis in Chhattisgarh.