Shootings in India tarnish Vedanta’s reputation
Local police kill thirteen protesters against the expansion of the firm's copper-smelting facility
AFTER 99 peaceful days of protests, the 100th brought carnage. On May 22nd in Tuticorin, a coastal town near the southern tip of India, police indiscriminately fired live rounds into a crowd of several thousand demonstrators who were opposing the planned expansion of a copper-smelting facility. Thirteen people died and scores more were injured. The fallout threatens to be a chronic headache both for the Indian authorities and Vedanta, the mining giant which owns the facility.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Copper bottom”
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