“They filed false legal cases against six of us”

JK Thimma, a shaman from the Jenu Kuruba tribe in India, has fought for his people’s right to live in the forest they worship, for decades. They have faced years of harassment from forest guards hell-bent on evicting them from Nagarhole National Park, in the name of conservation. After a recent protest for their rights, officials ignored the community’s Covid protection measures, entered their hamlet and harassed Thimma and other leaders, falsely charging them with serious criminal offences.

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