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southern part of the state of Orissa in India, contains one
of the richest bauxite reserves in the country. Large aluminium
companies, both in India and abroad, who know that there are
billions of dollars of profit to be made from this region if
only the local population could be moved out, have been trying
to establish their base there. The region has also seen some
of the most sustained and vigorous struggles by the local people
against the threat of displacement.
A new phase of the people's struggle against
bauxite mining was ushered in, in the year 2000, when on December
16, the police gunned down three local adivasis and injured
many others in an incident of unprovoked firing in Kashipur
block, an area that has come to be closely associated with
the resistance movement.
Development at Gunpoint takes a look
at the struggle against bauxite mining through interviews
with the local people. Using word and song, people describe
what the land means to them and how they will not be moved
at any cost.
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