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EPG Orissa26 March 2010 The anti-displacement movement in Kalinganagar has been facing increasing repression from the State Government as TATAs increase their efforts to launch the steel plant. Most people may remember that killing of 14 people in police firing in Kalinganagar was a turning point, when it started becoming clear to common people of Orissa that the state government and the ruling elite had sold out to international extractive industries mafia; and that democracy was being buried under the avalanche of global capital flows and extraction of Orissa's natural resources. A state killing its citizens to facilitate international capital - it was a shock to the common folks of Orissa- and a realisation that the wonderful dreams of development were just dreams circulated by a neo-liberal world order, where 500 million elites of the world consume half the world resources and that the relentless rape of colonised spaces such as Orissa was a neccessary corollary of the greed of the global elite. |
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Sudha Bhardwaj25 March 2010 Our efforts to get justice to the tribal women who had bravely protested against their rape by security forces and with great difficulty registered their private complaints in the Sessions Court at Dantewada are being countered with greater and greater State cruelty. |
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Jyoti Punwani10 March, 2010The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/For-tribals-development-means-exploitation/articleshow/5664400.cms
B D Sharma is one of India's foremost experts on tribal issues. He has served as collector of undivided Bastar district in Chhattisgarh and commissioner for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and has campaigned extensively to protect the rights of tribals. Currently, the coordinator of Bharat Jan Andolan, a network of grass-roots organisations, Sharma tells that current notions of development are at the root of the Maoist insurgency: |
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The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Chattisgarh government for raising the “bogey” of Naxalism to discredit those raising issues of human rights violations even as the Centre said it has evolved a Rs 7,300 crore package to develop Naxal-affected regions of the country. |
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