Hyderabad, July 20: Taking strong exception to the Andhra Pradesh government's aversion to displaced tribals from Chhattisgarh, the Human Rights Watch organisation has charged the state police and forest officials of direct involvement in destroying nine tribal habitations. A 182-page report titled, Human Rights Watch documents how since mid-2005, the state government has failed to provide indigenous tribal communities displaced from Chhattisgarh with basic assistance, including food, water, shelter, medical services, sanitation, and livelihood opportunities. It observed that the local authorities have repeatedly burned down at least nine hamlets of those displaced, and denied them government welfare benefits. "Instead of protecting the displaced tribals, the state government punished them for taking refuge," Jo Becker, children rights activist and member of the research team of HRW, said. More than 50,000 tribal families have fled to neighbouring districts of Khammam and Warangal following violence between Naxalites and Salwa Judum groups in Chhattisgarh. HRW exposed that Chhattisgarh's security forces indeed are involved in the anti-naxal activities. Those settled on AP's border villages faced the wrath of local authorities, who say these settlements are illegal, and have repeatedly burned down the hamlets of hundreds of displaced tribals. HRW further says they gave no prior notice, nor did they followed up. Of the 17 displaced-person hamlets that Human Rights Watch visited, villagers from nine hamlets reported repeated destruction of their hamlets, beatings, and forced relocation by forest department officials. In some instances, displaced persons, including women and children, were forced into trucks and transported to the state boundary, a two-day walk from their settlement.