At least 14 people killed in Nandigram, West Bengal
by - 23.03.2007 15:27
Nandigram, March 14: At least 14 people were killed and more than 70 injured. police entered villages and attacked people opposing the acquisition of farm land for industries. The farmers were protesting against government plans to set up a chemical hub and an industrial zone in the area.
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15 March, 2007
Activists of the Trinamul Congress blocked a road during a protest in Kolkata.
NANDIGRAM: Baton-wielding police fired tear gas and beat dozens of villagers on March 15 who were protesting against the killing of at least 14 people in a dispute over plans to set up an industrial hub on farmland.
The killings were the worst violence yet over West Bengal's plans to acquire land for a low-tax Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Nandigram (150km southwest of Kolkata), a dispute that has also undermined the federal government’s economic reform plans.
At least 2,000 protested against the killings on the previous day in Nandigram. The police fired tear gas near a hospital emergency ward, sending hundreds of villagers, who had assembled at the hospital to look for missing relatives from the previous day, scurrying for cover. Villagers jumped into ponds and ran into paddy fields as some shouted: "They will kill us again. Run for your life, brothers."
The clashes erupted a day after police fired on farmers as they tried to enter an area earmarked for a chemical industry hub with investment from an Indonesian conglomerate, the Salim Group.
In Kolkata, students boycotted classes, trains were stopped by demonstrators outside the city and roads were blocked.
Both houses of the parliament were adjourned for an hour because of protests by MPs over the killings, and opposition lawmakers said the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal was responsible for the deaths.
Previous clashes over the proposed SEZ since January have killed several people and led to the government putting more than 230 SEZ proposals across India on hold.
On March 15, a West Bengal court ordered the federal Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate the latest violence which was front-page news in Indian newspapers.
"More blood on SEZ lands" said a headline of the Economic Times.
A general strike called by opposition parties over the shooting by police of protesting farmers has paralysed life in the Indian state of West Bengal.
www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200703141801.htm
http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/11/stories/2007011104511200.htm
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070107/spectrum/main1.htm
15 March, 2007
Activists of the Trinamul Congress blocked a road during a protest in Kolkata.
NANDIGRAM: Baton-wielding police fired tear gas and beat dozens of villagers on March 15 who were protesting against the killing of at least 14 people in a dispute over plans to set up an industrial hub on farmland.
The killings were the worst violence yet over West Bengal's plans to acquire land for a low-tax Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Nandigram (150km southwest of Kolkata), a dispute that has also undermined the federal government’s economic reform plans.
At least 2,000 protested against the killings on the previous day in Nandigram. The police fired tear gas near a hospital emergency ward, sending hundreds of villagers, who had assembled at the hospital to look for missing relatives from the previous day, scurrying for cover. Villagers jumped into ponds and ran into paddy fields as some shouted: "They will kill us again. Run for your life, brothers."
The clashes erupted a day after police fired on farmers as they tried to enter an area earmarked for a chemical industry hub with investment from an Indonesian conglomerate, the Salim Group.
In Kolkata, students boycotted classes, trains were stopped by demonstrators outside the city and roads were blocked.
Both houses of the parliament were adjourned for an hour because of protests by MPs over the killings, and opposition lawmakers said the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal was responsible for the deaths.
Previous clashes over the proposed SEZ since January have killed several people and led to the government putting more than 230 SEZ proposals across India on hold.
On March 15, a West Bengal court ordered the federal Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate the latest violence which was front-page news in Indian newspapers.
"More blood on SEZ lands" said a headline of the Economic Times.
A general strike called by opposition parties over the shooting by police of protesting farmers has paralysed life in the Indian state of West Bengal.