A macabre drama is unfolding in the poverty-stricken Indian state of Orissa where a democratically-elected government has begun to crush over a dozen people’s peaceful resistance movements against their forceful eviction from their forest, farm, water bodies and source oflivelihood to help giant multi-national corporations usurp mineral-rich forest and fertile agricultural land.
comment-also see....Dodgy Development IV: 'A DFID colony' http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=3597 India vs Indians: Orissa’s Freedom Struggle http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2010/05/17/india-vs-indians-orissas-freedom-struggle/ Halt the Offensive Against People and End Militarisation of the Indian Forests http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2010/05/12/halt-the-offensive-against-people-and-end-militarisation-of-the-forests/
No comments:
Post a Comment