"They said that we should ask their permission to worship in our own forest"

Imagine being told you can’t worship in your own home.

This is what happened to a group of Chenchu people from Amrabad Tiger Reserve, who were told by forest guards that they weren’t allowed to worship without permission.

This is absurd and a gross violation of their right to freely practice their religion.

But it’s not an isolated incident: it’s part of a sustained campaign to harass and pressure the Chenchu to relocate from the tiger reserve - the forest they’ve lived in and protected for millennia.

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