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#HidmeMarkam, 28 yr-old Adivasi activist arrested by police, accused of carrying out deadly Maoist attacks over 2016-20, a period she spent meeting politicians, officials about displacement, incarceration of Adivasis in Bastar, #Chhattisgarh: @ChitrangadaC article-14.com/post/why-hidme…
Markam (in light, pink sari) at a rally of Jail Bandi Rihai Manch (Release Prisoners Forum) in Kuakonda, Dantewada, in June 2019. Public meeting was attended by local MLAs, including Vikram Mandavi (in the white shirt) and Devti Karma (in the cream sari) of the #Congress party 
Recent photograph of #HidmeMarkam’s mother, relatives at home in Burgum, a #Chhattisgarh village with more women than men, with a female literacy rate of 6.88%, according to latest available census data from 2011. Markam herself, as @ChitrangadaC reports, never attended school
