Salwa Judum making a comeback in Bastar, say activists

August 18, 2015 21:39

A group of activists today claimed that the Salwa Judum movement is "making a comeback" in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, and alleged that it was being done to drive away the tribal people from their land.

Activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan said, "Operation Green Hunt is making a comeback slowly and is a modified form of a low-intensity war. Salwa Judum is too making a comeback. Adivasis are officially made as SPOs (Special Police Officers) and killing the adivasis."

"The only intention is to grab their land to make them disappear and do it in a way that the world should not know about it," Bhushan said, addressing a news conference.

Salwa Judum was a militia mobilised and deployed as part of anti-insurgency operations in Chhattisgarh, aimed at countering the Naxal violence in the region. In 2011, the Supreme Court declared it as illegal and ordered its disbanding.

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