Salwa Judum

Salwa Judum (meaning "Peace March' in Gondi language) is an anti-Naxalite movement inChhattisgarh, India, which started in 2005 as a people's resistance movement against the Naxalites, a far-left movement in some states in rural India that is designated by India as aterrorist organization on account of their violent Maoist activities in the state. Initially an uprising of local indigenous people in Chhattisgarh, the Salwa Judum movement later received bi-partisan support from both the opposition and ruling parties.A few years later the state government adopted the Salwa Judum movement in order to restore democratic rule to the regions where the Naxalites had established themselves by force. Chhattisgarh state has over the years trained a number of SPOs or 'Special Police Officers', from amongst the tribals, who are part of Salwa Judum in the state, also with its formation the state witnessed a marked rise in success against Naxalite action,wikipedia