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A platoon of police and paratroopers (armed with tear gas shells and rubber bullets) arrive outside Gudkujang village, Odisha. The police have been illegally and covertlyy supervising forest clearing and felling trees despite court orders and protests by villagers. Over 2000 acres of forest land and proposed forest land are at risk if South Korean steel giant, POSCO, sets-up it's unit in this region.

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Uploaded on February 25, 2012
Taken on August 26, 2011