While movements by tribal people to restore their rights over the land and forest are taking up to extremist ideologies, the tribal people not accepting to such ideas are becoming the worst victims of the conflict and such extremist movements.
Jambuli Maleka, a woman leader of Bandhugaon block of
Odisha’s Koraput district and the Naib-Sarpanch (vice-Sarpanch) of Kumbarput
Grampanchayat, was a peace loving woman and always wanted to lead development
and live with her community. But destiny had something else to offer.
The supporters of the movement led by Nachika Linga, a
radical tribal youth heading the Chasi Mulia Adivasi sangh (CMAS), came to the
village Kopakhal and asked the villagers to join their organisation and the
movement to ensure rights of tribal people on the land and the forest, as
claimed by the CMAS and its leader Nachika Linga. The denial of the villagers
made their life horrible with atrocious behaviour and continuous torture by
CMAS Members.
