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The protest against a newly set-up paramilitary camp reveals the dark realities of decades-old fighting between Maoist insurgents and the Indian state.
For more than two months, tribal villagers have been protesting against a camp set up by India's paramilitary police force on the border of Bijapur-Sukma, two remote districts in the northeastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
On May 17, the size of the protest was quite large with several thousand people from various villages of Chhattisgarh gathering outside the contested camp and asking the Indian government to remove it and clear the area from the 'unwanted' police presence.
But the violence soon struck the protest site as police fired at the protesters, killing three and injuring several dozens of them. As per local estimates, the total death toll caused by the police firing had climbed to 4, adding yet another bloody event to the troubled history of the Chhattisgarh state, where a Maoist insurgency against New Delhi has been raging for several decades.
Two months after the killings, what's left of the protest site is a handful of villagers still holding placards with the hope of convincing the Indian government to remove the paramilitary camp from the area.
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Tribals protesting Indian police camp expose faultlines of an old conflict
The protest against a newly set-up paramilitary camp reveals the dark realities of decades-old fighting between Maoist insurgents and the Indian state.
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