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Democratic rights eroding in India, as paranoia rises about anti nuclear activists

It’s a gloomy look for democratic freedoms, civil liberties in India.  Seems as if the India government is bent on obliging the USA, Russia, France.  Those unfortunate nuclear powers, unable to sell their dirty and dangerous nuclear reactors to their own populations, are trying to make a fast few billion bucks out of selling them to India.

Never mind the Indian public – what’s the well-being a few hundred thousand fisher folk, and plain village agricultural people matter, compared to the well-being of multinational nuclear corporations and their political lackeys?  So – the Indian establishment is gettig very anxious
to crack down on dissenting opinions.

Keep anti-nuclear project activists under check: Vasan   The Hindu, 11 March 12 Union Minister for Shipping G.K. Vasan has called upon the State government to keep the anti-Kudankulam nuclear power project activists under check….

March 12, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes