The overwhelming rejection by India’s Dongria Kondh Adivasi (indigenous) communities of a proposal to mine their sacred lands is an unprecedented victory for indigenous rights in the face of business interests.
On 10 June, 1,000 police officials in riot gear, some of them armed, marched into Govindpur village, Jagatsinghpur district, Orissa, intending to forcibly evict farmers from common land.
