Jagatsinghpur, Odisha, India – June 10, 2011 – After six years of peaceful resistance to a proposed mega-project by Korean steel giant POSCO, villagers in the Indian state of Odisha are facing a dire standoff. The Odisha state government has deployed hundreds of police to surround the villages in Jagatsinghpur district where residents refuse to allow acquisition of their homes, betel-vines and rice fields to make way for the steel project. On Friday, June 10, 2011, police began preparations to move in and forcibly evict the villagers.
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