4 lakh tribals displaced due to Maoists activities: report

Four lakh tribals displaced due to Maoists activities have been displaced due to extremist activities by Maoists in various parts of India, a non-government organisation has claimed in its latest report.

"A total of 4,01,425 tribals have been displaced due
to armed conflicts and ethnic conflicts across India," Asian
Indegenous and Tribal People's Network (AITPN), which has
special consultative status with the UN's Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC), claimed in its report.

"These displaced persons (tribals) have been living
miserable lives without basic amenities including food, water,
shelter, medical services, sanitation and livelihood
opportunities," it added.

About 1.2 lakh members of Gutti Koya tribes of Bastar
and Bijapur districts of Chhattisgarh fled to Andhra Pradesh's
Khammam between January to June last year to escape violence
by the maoists and the salwa judum activists, the report said.
by the southern state of Andhra Pradesh Government and tribals
benefitted from NREGA and were also provided with ration
cards.
Pradesh Government soon after maoists killed more than 30
Greyhound personnel in an ambush at Chitrakonda reservoir in
Orissa on June 29 last year and police accused Gutti Koya
tribals of being supporters of the maoists, the report said.
villages in Dantewara district and 10,949 tribals from 275
villages in Bijapur district are living in 23 government-run
makeshift camps in the state following the armed conflicts in
the region.

Over 96,000 tribals, mainly Bodos, are staying in
relief camps since the communal clashes broke out between
Bodos and "non-tribal" Muslims in Assam in August 2008.

In Tripura, 30,000 Bru tribals of Mizoram, displaced
after an ethnic clash a few years ago, continue to languish in
six relief camps and struggle for their basic rights, AITPN
said. PTI PKU
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