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India - now nuclear and environmental dissent is a crime
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2460076/india_now_nuclear_and_environmental_dissent_is_a_crime.html
India - now nuclear and environmental dissent is a crime
Kumar Sundaram
4th July 2014
In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised, writes Kumar Sundaram. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
In the same week that France decided to lower its appetite for nuclear energy and increase its reliance on renewable sources, the Indian home ministry started hounding Greenpeace for its role in "stalling India's development" by opposing nuclear power and genetically modified organisms.
A crackdown on other anti-nuclear networks like the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) and the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) is being widely anticipated.
The crackdown followed a confidential report by India's premier internal intelligence agency, the Intelligence Bureau, titled 'Concerning efforts by select foreign funded NGOs to 'take down' Indian development projects'.
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Anti-nuclear activists organised a press conference in Delhi in late June calling the Intelligence Bureau report unacceptable "scare-mongering" on the part of the government to malign local agitations and to further repress them. Achin Vanaik, an academic and leading anti-nuclear voice, said:
"We are concerned that the ground is being prepared, by whom we cannot say, to oppose and discredit a whole range of popular movements by targeting NGOs that are providing support to such struggles and resistances. We are fearful that this is a kind of witch-hunt with longer term implications to repress all kinds of popular struggles."
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Links (summarised from text):
http://www.rediff.com/news/interview/if-anything-happens-to-me-ib-and-government-are-responsible/20140619.htm
http://www.firstpost.com/india/anti-nuclear-activists-call-ib-report-on-ngos-a-cock-and-bull-story-1569695.html
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-importance-of-dissent-in-democracy/article6123745.ece
http://www.dianuke.org/koodankulam-a-court-in-the-supreme-contempt-of-its-people/
http://www.dianuke.org/democracy-bulldozed-to-clear-way-for-nuclear-industry-adivasis-protest-against-farcical-public-hearing/
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/repeating-enron-in-jaitapur/article4834435.ece
http://newsclick.in/india/sabotaging-parliament-and-nuclear-suppliers-liability
India - now nuclear and environmental dissent is a crime
Kumar Sundaram
4th July 2014
In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised, writes Kumar Sundaram. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
In the same week that France decided to lower its appetite for nuclear energy and increase its reliance on renewable sources, the Indian home ministry started hounding Greenpeace for its role in "stalling India's development" by opposing nuclear power and genetically modified organisms.
A crackdown on other anti-nuclear networks like the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) and the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) is being widely anticipated.
The crackdown followed a confidential report by India's premier internal intelligence agency, the Intelligence Bureau, titled 'Concerning efforts by select foreign funded NGOs to 'take down' Indian development projects'.
<snip>
Anti-nuclear activists organised a press conference in Delhi in late June calling the Intelligence Bureau report unacceptable "scare-mongering" on the part of the government to malign local agitations and to further repress them. Achin Vanaik, an academic and leading anti-nuclear voice, said:
"We are concerned that the ground is being prepared, by whom we cannot say, to oppose and discredit a whole range of popular movements by targeting NGOs that are providing support to such struggles and resistances. We are fearful that this is a kind of witch-hunt with longer term implications to repress all kinds of popular struggles."
<snip>
Links (summarised from text):
http://www.rediff.com/news/interview/if-anything-happens-to-me-ib-and-government-are-responsible/20140619.htm
http://www.firstpost.com/india/anti-nuclear-activists-call-ib-report-on-ngos-a-cock-and-bull-story-1569695.html
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-importance-of-dissent-in-democracy/article6123745.ece
http://www.dianuke.org/koodankulam-a-court-in-the-supreme-contempt-of-its-people/
http://www.dianuke.org/democracy-bulldozed-to-clear-way-for-nuclear-industry-adivasis-protest-against-farcical-public-hearing/
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/repeating-enron-in-jaitapur/article4834435.ece
http://newsclick.in/india/sabotaging-parliament-and-nuclear-suppliers-liability
