Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Mining India's Corruption
Western mining companies are gorging on Indian ores at the expense of the tribes who own them. Unchecked by corrupt government officials, transnational corporations like De Beers are devastating the forests and homelands of India's 90 million tribal people. Under these cruel conditions of displacement (a.k.a. ethnic cleansing), government talk of "rehabilitation" of the tribal refugees is nothing more than a cruel hoax.
