Goa
Federation of Mines Affected People (GOAMAP) condemns the arrest of
Catholic Priest Felix Lobo long with 5 other women by Police at the
complaint of truck owner yesterday in Usgao while they were protesting
transportation of iron ore through reckless movement of trucks that hit
and injured young child on the road. GOAMAP demands the cases against
Fr.Felix Lobo and other 5 women be withdrawn with immediate effect and
mining transportation in Usgao be stopped forever.
GOAMAP supports the actions of the People of Usgao in blocking of the
mining transportation after the authorities - including Goa’s
Chief Minister - has turned blind eye and deaf ears to the people from
the mining belt. Road blockades are resorted to by people under these
desperate conditions. GOAMAP also express solidarity and support to people
from Bicholim town that also blocked mining trucks transporting Ore from Goa
and Maharastra from causing innumerable problems to the town people.
Two
simultaneous road blockade of mining trucks – one in Usgao and other in
Bicholim – yesterday only goes about to show the extend of horror that
mining industry has inflicted and the level of desperation that people
of Goa are reaching towards.
GOAMAP holds that open cast iron ore mining and its transportation in Goa
is major Public Health hazard that needs to be stopped at the earliest. Why
should People of Goa suffer to benefit China and British Vedanta, and few local
mining business tycoons?
http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/2010/01/goamap-condemns-arrests-of-usgao-mining.html
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