The Chhattisgarh government has suspended Salwa Judum, launched as a people's awareness campaign to oppose naxalites, in the wake of the killing of several of its activists in Dantewada district and the spurt in naxalite attacks on civilians. The movement had become controversial after the exodus of tribal people from villages because of extremist.

DEEP in the jungles of Bastar, a few kilometres off the dirt track that runs between Bijapur and Gangalur, in the adivasi village of Irullipallan, it is almost noon. Marvinda and his family have just arrived from a refugee camp at Shevnaar, about 10 km away, to inspect the old, burnt remains of their home before cooking and eating lunch.

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