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Surju Tekam
HRD, Vice-President
Sarva Adivasi Samaj
Surju Tekam is an indigenous human rights defender and the convenor of the Bastar Coordination Committee of Mass Movements (Bastar Jan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti) and the Vice-President of Sarva Adivasi Samaj, a collective of all Adivasi organizations in Chhattisgarh. He has led major protest movements of the Adivasi community in Chhattisgarh against corporatisation and militarisation, and has been vocal against human rights violations by security forces, including extrajudicial executions, arrests of community leaders, and forced evictions.
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Violations
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