WHEN LAND IS LOST, DO WE EAT COAL? - Mining

"WHEN LAND IS LOST, DO WE EAT COAL?"

COAL MINING AND VIOLATIONS OF ADIVASI RIGHTS IN INDIA

2 "WHEN LAND IS LOST, DO WE EAT COAL?" COAL MINING AND VIOLATIONS OF ADIVASI RIGHTS IN INDIA

Amnesty International India is part of the Amnesty International global human rights movement. Amnesty International India seeks to protect and promote the human rights of everyone in India. Our vision is for every person in India to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, other international human rights standards and the Constitution of India. We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion, and are funded mainly by contributions from individual supporters.

Amnesty International India #235, 13th Cross, Indira Nagar, 2nd Stage, Bangalore ? 560038, Karnataka, India ? Amnesty International India Index: ASA 20/4391/2016 Original language: English Printed by Amnesty International India. All rights reserved. This publication is copyright, but may be reproduced by any method without fee for advocacy, campaigning and teaching purposes, but not for resale. The copyright holders request that all such use be registered with them for impact assessment purposes. For copying in any other circumstances, or for reuse in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from the publishers, and a fee may be payable. To request permission, or for any other inquiries, please contact: contact@.in Cover photo: Kusmunda open cast mine, as seen from Barkuta village, April 2014. Front inside photo: Mining at the edge of Barkuta village, May 2016. Back inside photo: A mining truck heads down into the Tetariakhar mine, Basiya village, July 2014. Back photo: A Binjhwar adivasi woman who lives near the Basundhara-West mine, September 2014. All photographs by Aruna Chandrasekhar for Amnesty International India

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CONTENTS

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

06

2. BACKGROUND

18

Methodology

23

3. A MOSAIC OF LAWS

24

4. HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN COAL INDIA LIMITED MINES

34

Kusmunda, Chhattisgarh

34

Tetariakhar, Jharkhand

50

Basundhara (West), Odisha

56

5. INDIA'S INTERNATIONAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

65

6. GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE FAILURES

70

7. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

74

" The bulldozer entered our village at 10 am. At the

time, many of us had left for our fields and our daily work. Hearing that demolitions had begun, we ran home as fast as we could. By the time I reached, my house had been broken down.

They didn't even give us time to remove our belongings from our home- everything was destroyed, including a year's worth of grain. It rained for a week after. In the next two days, we scraped together whatever we could. Our clothes were torn, belongings scattered- we built whatever shelter we could from what remained.

Where do we go? How do we survive? Who will listen to us now?

I understand that some people must make sacrifices for the nation, but why must it always be us?

Nirupabai, forcibly evicted in February 2014 from Barkuta village, Chhattisgarh

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January 2014 ? Amnesty International India

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