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India's Nuclear Ambitions Rattle Tsunami-Hit Coast
http://www.wsj.com/articles/indias-nuclear-ambitions-rattle-tsunami-hit-coast-1419207062
India’s Nuclear Ambitions Rattle Tsunami-Hit Coast
Locals Fear Fukushima Scenario at Plant on Shores Ravaged in ‘04
By Jesse Pesta and R. Jai Krishna
Updated Dec. 21, 2014 10:49 p.m. ET
20 COMMENTS
IDINTHA KARAI, India—Here along India’s southern coast—ravaged by tsunami waves 10 years ago—the country’s newest nuclear plant towers over the shoreline.
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It comes a decade after the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami, in which 228,000 people were lost across countries on the Indian Ocean’s rim, and amid concern about nuclear plants on tsunami-prone shorelines since the 2011 meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.
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Law-enforcement officials have responded by, among other things, charging 227,000 people—including entire villages—with a variety of crimes including sedition and war against the state, according to a lawyer for the protesters.
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S.P. Udayakumar of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, one of the main activist groups, calls that a “mockery” of the legal system, saying he personally faces 21 charges of sedition for opposing the plant. He called a practice of charging entire communities, rather than named individuals, harassment. “We are not saying that we don’t need electricity, we don’t need development,” he said. “All we say is, the poor people also have to be included in the development scheme.”
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India’s Nuclear Ambitions Rattle Tsunami-Hit Coast
Locals Fear Fukushima Scenario at Plant on Shores Ravaged in ‘04
By Jesse Pesta and R. Jai Krishna
Updated Dec. 21, 2014 10:49 p.m. ET
20 COMMENTS
IDINTHA KARAI, India—Here along India’s southern coast—ravaged by tsunami waves 10 years ago—the country’s newest nuclear plant towers over the shoreline.
<snip>
It comes a decade after the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami, in which 228,000 people were lost across countries on the Indian Ocean’s rim, and amid concern about nuclear plants on tsunami-prone shorelines since the 2011 meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.
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Law-enforcement officials have responded by, among other things, charging 227,000 people—including entire villages—with a variety of crimes including sedition and war against the state, according to a lawyer for the protesters.
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S.P. Udayakumar of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, one of the main activist groups, calls that a “mockery” of the legal system, saying he personally faces 21 charges of sedition for opposing the plant. He called a practice of charging entire communities, rather than named individuals, harassment. “We are not saying that we don’t need electricity, we don’t need development,” he said. “All we say is, the poor people also have to be included in the development scheme.”
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