Surround GCM! Surround the Dirty Coal Miners!
Action to Save Lives and to Halt the Devastating Phulbari Coal Project
Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 10:30am-12pm
Venue: 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ
An AIM-listed London-based multinational company, GCM Resources Plc, is desperately moving to implement an immense open pit coal mine in northwest Bangladesh, forcibly displacing an estimated 130, 000 people and destroying the homes, lands, and water sources of as many as 220,000 people. If the project is implemented, it will destroy over 14,660 acres of fertile agricultural land that produce three food crops annually, threatening to increase hunger in a country in which nearly half of all people currently live below the nutrition poverty line.
Locals have protested the project for seven years by forming powerful human chains and rallies. On 26 August 2006, three people were killed and over 200 injured when paramilitary troops fired on a massive protest of some 80,000 demonstrators in Phulbari. But people in Phulbari are determined to resist this project and to stop GCM Resources plc. The potential for violence has remained high in this project ever since August 2006. Last year the situation sparked by the CEO’s planned visit to Phulbari. People in Phulbari have given verdict against this project. We have served two eviction notices to the company. On 28 February, 2012, seven Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations issued a joint UN press release, calling for an immediate halt to the project on the grounds that it threatens the fundamental human rights of hundreds of thousands of people, including entire villages of indigenous people, and poses “an immediate threat to safety and standards of living.” Still GCM is aggressively moving on to implement this open pit coal mine ignoring the human rights and environmental degradation the project would leave.
We want to teach GCM to keep its hands off Bangladesh. We will surround the corrupted miners this December at their AGM. Will you join us in surrounding the dirty coal miners? Will you tell GCM to leave this project?
For further information contact akhtersk@gmail.com or pulbarisolidaritygroup@gmail.com Visit http://phulbarisolidaritygroup.wordpress.com/, http://protectbdresources.org.uk,www.ncbd.org
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The event is organised by the UK branch of the National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas Mineral Resources and Port-Power in Bangladesh in conjunction with Phulbari Solidarity Group, London Mining Network, and World Development Movement.
Phulbari Demo in previous years: Phulbari demo Flyer 2013
