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Sunday, July 04, 2004, 00:57

Indian's Adivasi set to battle Canada's biggest multinational mining company

Toronto Star

On one side is Alcan Inc., the Montreal-based aluminum giant. Standing in their way are the Adivasis — indigenous tribes and their supporters from watchdog groups in India and Canada. Their blockades and mass protests culminated in deadly violence when state police fired at crowds of unarmed Adivasis. Adivasis want to keep their land. Alcan wants to buy their bauxite, the raw material for aluminum. Increasingly, that activity encroaches on rainforest tribes sitting on the most coveted mineral resources in countries like India, which has 10 per cent of estimated world bauxite reserves.
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