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[Please sign the petition to protest Kalinganagar violence, if you haven't already done so: http://www.petitiononline.com/kn2010/petition.html ] Thousands protest displacement in Orissa http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/thousands-protest-displacement-in-orissa_100359099.html Bhubaneswar, May 5 (IANS) More than 2,000 men and women, majority of them tribals, held a meeting in Orissa’s Jajpur district Wednesday to protest forcible displacement of people by the government for various steel, power and other industrial projects in the state, the organisers said. Tribal leaders, human rights activists and anti-displacement leaders from across the state participated in the meeting held near the industrial complex at Kalinganagar, some 120 km from here. “We condemn the way the state government is forcibly displacing people in recent months from their homeland, using goons for various projects,” human rights activist and Lokashakti Abhiyan president Prafulla Samantray said. Addressing the meeting, K.N. Ramachandran, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), said the state government is dancing to the tune of many companies who are hell bent on looting the mines. The gathering was organised by Visthapan Virodhi Jana Manch (VVJM)- an anti-land acquisition group which has been spearheading agitation against Tata Steel’s six million tonnes per annum integrated steel plant in the area. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist "After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can’t respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn’t respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war.” -- Maria Julia Hernandez www.otherindia.org www.binayaksen.net www.phm-india.org www.phmovement.org www.ifhhro.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movem...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
