Bad news out of India, Manmade Tsunami

[lonestarnot]

IPS Weekly report

RIGHTS-INDIA:
Tsunami-Like Devastation Hits Mumbai Slum Dwellers
Sandhya Srinivasan

MUMBAI, India, Jan 30 (IPS) - The scene left behind once the bulldozers had plowed through the slums, here, resembled the devastation wrought by last month's Indian Ocean tsunami. The slum dwellers were not forewarned and they just ran, grabbing anything they could save from the destruction - a schoolbag here, a cooking pot there.

When he visited ground zero on Jan. 17, Miloon Kothari, the independent special rapporteur on adequate housing for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, described it as the ''most brutal demolition drive in recent times.''

Some 300,000 people in Mumbai, including up to 100,000 children, have been made homeless by the drive against the slums that had become accepted as a feature of this port city -- regarded as the financial capital of India.

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[NYC]

1. I find that unimaginable.

[yankeedem]

2. Better not let Crashcart read this

He'd get a hard on. This is the Indian economic miracle that we hear about.

[blondeatlast]

3. Got a link? I need for my hubby (a Punjab) to read this... nt

[the_outsider]

5. link

http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27246

happening a lot in all big Indian cities, not just Mumbai. I was reading another story about new fly-over highways being constructed in Calcutta which will make thousands of slum-dwellers homeless.

[blondeatlast]

8. Thanks; passing the link along now. nt

[lonestarnot]

6. Here's the link, sorry didn't post it earlier

http://ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27246

[Rapcw]

4. very sad story n/t

[lonestarnot]

7. Coming to a city near you. n/t

[LiberallyInclined]

9. Reaganization reaches India.

it reminds me of how ronnie cleared out the mental institutions.

[lonestarnot]

10. Makes me think of what is going to happen to unemployed Americans

when CAFTA is passed.