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Article: ENVIRONMENT: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SAY MINING DESTROYS LAND AND LIVES
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- May 14, 1996
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Pratap Chatterjee
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-14-1996
LONDON, May 13 (IPS) -- The mining of minerals from coal to
uranium has transformed mountains into craters and turned rivers
the color of blood, said representatives of indigenous peoples from
some 50 communities around the world, gathered in London this week.
From Namibia in southern Africa to Siberia near the Arctic
circle, from French Guyana on the north-eastern shoulder of South
America to Fiji in the South Pacific, speakers are in London for
the 6-16 May Consultation on Indigenous People and Mining,
organized by the World Council of Churches here.
Some spoke of verdant green tropical forest hunting grounds that
have been ...