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3 Aug 2011

Author:
Faiza Ahmad Khan, Al Jazeera

Indian farmers protest massive steel plant

"POSCO go back!" is a common chant among the hundreds of residents from Jagatsingpur district who have been standing guard at the village borders since June 2, to prevent the forcible acquisition of their lands for a steel plant, the country’s largest, that South-Korea based Pohang Steel Company (POSCO) wants to set up.

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