“The people resisting mining in the Sijimali Hills are not criminals,” a representative of the Human Rights Forum said. “They are cultivators, forest dwellers, labourers, women and youth seeking to protect their land, forests, water sources and constitutional rights.”

By Satya Sagar. The recent surrender of top leadership figures within the Communist Party of India (Maoist) marks the most decisive failure yet in their decades-long armed struggle against the Indian State.