Saturday, June 11, 2011

Bloodshed feared as police move in to evict villages resisting the POSCO steel project in Odisha, India

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.

http://climate-connections.org/2011/06/10/bloodshed-feared-as-police-move-in-to-evict-villages-resisting-the-posco-steel-project-in-odisha-india/