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These tribals were displaced from C’garh. Can they get land rights in AP?

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These tribals were displaced from C’garh. Can they get land rights in AP? At least 190,000 Adivasis have been forcefully evicted or displaced since 2005 without compensation or rehabilitation, according to six cases documented so far by Land Conflict Watch Current Affairs :”I will never return,” said Madakam Adama, alluding to his home in Chhattisgarh’s Gedampal town, which he last observed 13 years back, in 2006. Adama, who looks around 60 however says he is 45, presently lives in Kota Namilipeta, a settlement of 27 mud-walled houses in a woodland in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari region. Adama is among the a huge number of Adivasis (inborn, indigeneous individuals) uprooted from their homes and towns in southern Chhattisgarh. The Adivasis were escaping viciousness purportedly perpetrated by a state-supported volunteer army, the Salwa Judum, not long after it was shaped in mid-2005. The Supreme Court restricted the Salwa Judum in 2011, calling it illegal and the state bac...