I need the Goanetters responses , need specific answers , not evasive replies 1. Is suffering of mining affected people in the mining belt of Goa a human rights violations issue? 2. if not can it be made a human rights issue? 3. If not, then the reasons thereof? 4. if yes, then whether it can be addressed by statutory state human rights commission? 5. if answer is affirmative, an unequivocal YES to 1, 2, 4 then what has been done in this regard by anti mining activists? What are the constraints in taking it as a human rights violation issue?Are anti mining activists interested in agitating for a state human rights commission In your participation in answering the above lies the beginning of a democratic and peaceful constitutional path to provide social and ecological justice to mining affected people of Goa with or without open, unequivocal understanding, unity, solidarity by mining trade ( including barge, trucks) unions and their leaders.
-'mining agent' -- Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA