Continued Arrests and State Repression in Tijmali Forests in Odisha

Even as Adivasi and Dalit communities in Odisha’s Sijimali region continue to resist mining operations, the state has responded not with dialogue but with an intensifying crackdown on villagers aimed at breaking a sustained people’s movement against the bauxite project of Vedanta Limited in Kashipur block of Raygada district. The arrests of anti-mining solidarity struggle […]