PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2010 ID-11427
.
aisa.
.
speakers.
.
Public Meeting Displacement, Dispossession and.
.
Resistance of the Tribal People in noted journalist and activist, a leading voice against tribal displacement.
.
Mineral Rich Areas She led massive struggles against Arcelor Mittal's proposed giant steel.
.
27.2.10 (Tonight) plant in Jharkhand and against the Koel Karo dam.
.
Godavari Mess.
.
9.30pm SBT, JNU.
.
"This open declared war will go down as the biggest land grab ever [after Columbus], if it plays.
out as per the script. The drama being scripted by Tata Steel and Essar Steel who wanted 7 villages.
or thereabouts, each to mine the richest lode of iron ore available in India. 640 villages as per offi-.
cial statistics were laid bare, burnt to the ground and emptied with the force of the gun and the.
blessings of the state. 350,000 tribals, half the total population of Dantewada district are displaced,.
their womenfolk raped, their daughters killed, and their youth maimed. Those who could not escape.
into the jungle were herded together into refugee camps run and managed by the Salwa Judum.".
- Draft Report of the Committee on State Agrarian Relations and Unfinished Task of Land Reforms.
submitted in 2009 to the Ministry of Rural Development of the UPA, page 161.
.
As this report of the Ministry of Rural Development clearly points out, the mineral-rich areas of the country.
are increasingly turning into war-zones, with the entire state machinery engaged in an all-out mission to quell.
wide-spread resistance to `development' projects. Even as Salwa Judum contines to wreck murder and mayhem.
in Chhattisgarh, the UPA has begun the Operation Green Hunt campaign which essentially intends not just to.
replicate, but to vastly expand the scope and intensity of the Salwa Judum..
.
The Political Economy of the Operation Green Hunt.
.
The Operation Green Hunt is intimately connected, politically, with the US-sponsored national-international.
"war on terror" and economically, with the neoliberal programme of the imperialist-corporate plunder of our.
natural and human resources. The original and central arena of this military campaign is the forested regions.
spread over the states of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. These are.
extremely rich in mineral and forest resources. The list includes bauxite in Orissa, Iron ore in Chhattisgarh and.
Jharkhand states, and deposits of uranium, limestone, marble, dolomite, tin, graphite, copper, gold, diamonds,.
corundum, beryl, alexandrite and fluorite, and possibly coal in addition to teak, hardwood, bamboo, waters of.
several rivers, wildlife and fish. The bauxite deposits alone have been estimated to be worth between US$2-4.
trillion. Big mining companies and steel manufacturers like the Mittals, Jindals, Tata, Essar, Posco, Rio.
Tinto, BHP Billiton and Vedanta signed up MoUs with respected state governments to plunder these.
resources..
.
But these regions are also home to some of the oldest communities of India, whose land the corporates are.
preparing to grab, the fifth schedule of the constitution (which forbids the alienation of tribal land) notwithstand-.
ing. As Dr. Binayak Sen puts it, "These communities have thus far survived because of a fragile and tenuous.
equilibrium that they have established with their ecosystem and which they are able to maintain because of.
their access to common property resources like land, water and forests." Activities of the mining mafia will.
destroy this equilibrium and throw the original inhabitants of the land from the accursed frying pan to.
hell-fire. A Nandigram-like situation is thus in the offing in large swathes of adivasi homeland, the so-called.
Maoist corridor or MoUist corridor. The real agenda of the Indian ruling elite was expressed by the Prime.
Minister when he told parliament on 18 June, 2009, "If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in.
parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.".
.
Leading the state-corporate crusade against the adivasis is a man whose credentials make him the perfect.
choice for the job. PC Chidambaram was a non-executive director of Vedanta - a position from which he re-.
signed the day he became finance minister in 2004. One of the first clearances he gave for FDI was to TwPi.nTs.tOar..
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2010 ID-11427
.
aisa.
.
speakers.
.
Public Meeting Displacement, Dispossession and.
.
Resistance of the Tribal People in noted journalist and activist, a leading voice against tribal displacement.
.
Mineral Rich Areas She led massive struggles against Arcelor Mittal's proposed giant steel.
.
27.2.10 (Tonight) plant in Jharkhand and against the Koel Karo dam.
.
Godavari Mess.
.
9.30pm SBT, JNU.
.
"This open declared war will go down as the biggest land grab ever [after Columbus], if it plays.
out as per the script. The drama being scripted by Tata Steel and Essar Steel who wanted 7 villages.
or thereabouts, each to mine the richest lode of iron ore available in India. 640 villages as per offi-.
cial statistics were laid bare, burnt to the ground and emptied with the force of the gun and the.
blessings of the state. 350,000 tribals, half the total population of Dantewada district are displaced,.
their womenfolk raped, their daughters killed, and their youth maimed. Those who could not escape.
into the jungle were herded together into refugee camps run and managed by the Salwa Judum.".
- Draft Report of the Committee on State Agrarian Relations and Unfinished Task of Land Reforms.
submitted in 2009 to the Ministry of Rural Development of the UPA, page 161.
.
As this report of the Ministry of Rural Development clearly points out, the mineral-rich areas of the country.
are increasingly turning into war-zones, with the entire state machinery engaged in an all-out mission to quell.
wide-spread resistance to `development' projects. Even as Salwa Judum contines to wreck murder and mayhem.
in Chhattisgarh, the UPA has begun the Operation Green Hunt campaign which essentially intends not just to.
replicate, but to vastly expand the scope and intensity of the Salwa Judum..
.
The Political Economy of the Operation Green Hunt.
.
The Operation Green Hunt is intimately connected, politically, with the US-sponsored national-international.
"war on terror" and economically, with the neoliberal programme of the imperialist-corporate plunder of our.
natural and human resources. The original and central arena of this military campaign is the forested regions.
spread over the states of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. These are.
extremely rich in mineral and forest resources. The list includes bauxite in Orissa, Iron ore in Chhattisgarh and.
Jharkhand states, and deposits of uranium, limestone, marble, dolomite, tin, graphite, copper, gold, diamonds,.
corundum, beryl, alexandrite and fluorite, and possibly coal in addition to teak, hardwood, bamboo, waters of.
several rivers, wildlife and fish. The bauxite deposits alone have been estimated to be worth between US$2-4.
trillion. Big mining companies and steel manufacturers like the Mittals, Jindals, Tata, Essar, Posco, Rio.
Tinto, BHP Billiton and Vedanta signed up MoUs with respected state governments to plunder these.
resources..
.
But these regions are also home to some of the oldest communities of India, whose land the corporates are.
preparing to grab, the fifth schedule of the constitution (which forbids the alienation of tribal land) notwithstand-.
ing. As Dr. Binayak Sen puts it, "These communities have thus far survived because of a fragile and tenuous.
equilibrium that they have established with their ecosystem and which they are able to maintain because of.
their access to common property resources like land, water and forests." Activities of the mining mafia will.
destroy this equilibrium and throw the original inhabitants of the land from the accursed frying pan to.
hell-fire. A Nandigram-like situation is thus in the offing in large swathes of adivasi homeland, the so-called.
Maoist corridor or MoUist corridor. The real agenda of the Indian ruling elite was expressed by the Prime.
Minister when he told parliament on 18 June, 2009, "If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in.
parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.".
.
Leading the state-corporate crusade against the adivasis is a man whose credentials make him the perfect.
choice for the job. PC Chidambaram was a non-executive director of Vedanta - a position from which he re-.
signed the day he became finance minister in 2004. One of the first clearances he gave for FDI was to TwPi.nTs.tOar..
..