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29-11-2022, 08:39 AM
UPDATED 11 HOURS AGO
KOCHI, India – More than 80 people were wounded in southern India as villagers halting a US$900 million (S$1.2 billion) port project of the Adani Group clashed with police, the latest escalation of a months-old protest waged by a mostly Christian fishing community against Asia’s richest man.
The protests are a major headache for Mr Gautam Adani’s US$23 billion ports-and-logistics company, which has been forced to stop work on the Vizhinjam seaport that is seen as winning business from rivals in Dubai, Singapore and Sri Lanka.
Construction, however, has been halted for more than three months after villagers blocked the entrance of the site, blaming the port for causing coastal erosion and depriving them of their livelihoods.
Over the weekend, police arrested several protesters after they blocked Mr Adani’s construction vehicles from entering the port, despite a court order for work to resume.
The arrests prompted hundreds of protesters, led by Roman Catholic priests, to march at the police station, clash with personnel and damage vehicles there
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-...protesters
KOCHI, India – More than 80 people were wounded in southern India as villagers halting a US$900 million (S$1.2 billion) port project of the Adani Group clashed with police, the latest escalation of a months-old protest waged by a mostly Christian fishing community against Asia’s richest man.
The protests are a major headache for Mr Gautam Adani’s US$23 billion ports-and-logistics company, which has been forced to stop work on the Vizhinjam seaport that is seen as winning business from rivals in Dubai, Singapore and Sri Lanka.
Construction, however, has been halted for more than three months after villagers blocked the entrance of the site, blaming the port for causing coastal erosion and depriving them of their livelihoods.
Over the weekend, police arrested several protesters after they blocked Mr Adani’s construction vehicles from entering the port, despite a court order for work to resume.
The arrests prompted hundreds of protesters, led by Roman Catholic priests, to march at the police station, clash with personnel and damage vehicles there
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-...protesters
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