Tag: strip-mining hills

There is clearly another environment-related sinister angle to the three-month long Manipur violent conflict that will have a huge impact on the ecologically fragile hill lands of Manipur; extractive mining on lands controlled by indigenous people (vast majority of them Christian) for high profit: mining limestone, chromite, nickel, copper, malachite, azurite, magnetite in violation of Forest Rights Act, 2006 and the statutory rights of indigenous peoples of the state