Vedanta protests continue

Members of the Majhi Kondh and Dongria Kondh tribes continue to protest against British mining company Vedanta’s activities in Orissa (Survival International). In accordance with its plans to mine tribal land, the company has displaced hundreds of families for an aluminium refinery, that it now wants to expand at further cost and no benefit whatsoever to local communities. Vedanta seems to believe that they can behave as they wish in undeveloped communities, an unpleasant throwback to a nasty colonial past.

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