{"id":88987,"date":"2013-05-28T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=88987"},"modified":"2013-05-28T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:27:58","slug":"the-continuing-tragedy-of-the-adivasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-continuing-tragedy-of-the-adivasis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Continuing Tragedy Of The Adivasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2006, I had a long conversation with Mahendra Karma, the Chhattisgarh Congress leader who was killed in a terror attack by the Naxalites last week. I was not alone \u2014 with me were five other members of a citizens\u2019 group studying the tragic fallout of the civil war in the State\u2019s Dantewada district. This war pitted the Naxalites on the one side against a vigilante army promoted by Mr. Karma on the other. 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