The Dongria Khond Adivasi (Indigenous) communities of Orissa should not be forcibly evicted from the homes and lands they traditionally own or occupy, Amnesty International said today, following India’s Supreme Court decision to allow Sterlite Industries (India) Limited to mine bauxite in their protected forest homeland. The Supreme Court’s decision on 8 August comes after five years of protests by environmentalists and human rights activists who argued that 661 hectares of forest around the mining area should be reserved and used only by the Dongria Khond Adivasi community...Amnesty...calls upon the Indian authorities not to engage in forced evictions and fulfil their responsibilities to protect all people from forced eviction...Sterlite Industries is a fully-owned subsidiary of...Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL)...India's Supreme Court on Friday 8 August also allowed South Korean steel firm POSCO permission to use forest land in Orissa...