DEVELOPMENT: Violence Escalates Around India’s Largest Inland Lake

Inter Press Service: Basudev Dalai, 43, never thought that the fishing village where he has lived all his life and which has been home to generations of fishermen like him would be embroiled in violent clashes over the very source of their livelihood. "The stakes are so high people are even prepared to kill those they have lived with for generations," says Dalai, a native of Alupatna village near Chilka Lagoon along the Bay of Bengal in eastern India. A pitched gun battle and crude bomb attack ......

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