“Being Neutral is Our Biggest Crime” - Global Coalition to Protect ...

• Release complete information, updated through June 2008, of the number of
displaced persons residing in camps and in all other sites where displaced
people reside in Bijapur and Dantewada districts.
• Where villages are inaccessible for security reasons, or where villagers are
unwilling to return, pay appropriate levels of compensation, including
maintenance for the internally displaced, and ensure their access to health,
education, and employment or other means of sustaining a living.
• Ensure equal access to all government services for displaced persons in areas
not recognized as camps, including permanent housing sites and
unrecognized camps.
Prevent recruitment of, and identify and rehabilitate underage SPOs
• Identify all SPOs under the age of 18 and remove them from service; provide
them with appropriate assistance, including alternative education or
vocational training.
• Offer honorable discharge to all SPOs who were recruited when they were less
than age 18, and provide them with alternative vocational opportunities.
• End the use of underage former Naxalites as police informers or SPOs.
• Implement the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, and provide proof
of birth to all children.
To the Andhra Pradesh government
• Extend all government schemes and services to internally displaced persons
(IDPs), and issue job cards, ration cards, voter identity cards, and other
documents required by displaced persons to make use of all government
programs and services.
• Order the Forest Department to immediately end unlawful destruction of IDP
hamlets, forced eviction or relocation of villagers, and confiscation of
property.
• Instruct all gram panchayats in Khammam and Warangal districts to
cooperate with displaced persons; make public announcements assuring
displaced persons that they will not be harmed if their identities are revealed.
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