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Police crack down on Kudankulam protest, enter
village
Monday September 10, 2012 05:09:08 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu
police Monday resorted to a cane charge to disburse thousands of
villagers, including women and children, staging protests on the
beach at Kudankulam, behind the upcoming nuclear power plant.
Earlier, officials had announced that enriched uranium fuel would
be loaded in the first of the two nuclear reactors around Sep 11.
This is the first time police started cracking down on the
protestors who launched their agitation against the atomic power
plant more than a year ago.
For the first time since the protests began, a large contingent of
police have entered Idinthakarai village in Tirunelveli district,
around 650 km from here, which has served as the hub of the
protest. A resident of the village, speaking to IANS on phone,
said around 300 policemen were in the village.
It was from this village that the anti-nuclear plant protestors
charted their protest plans after the Tamil Nadu government gave
its green signal to the project last year. The government had
earlier asked the central government to allay the fears of the
public before carrying out construction work.
India's atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of
India Ltd (NPCIL) is building two 1,000 MW reactors with Russian
equipment at Kudankulam since 2001.
Villagers under the PMANE banner have opposed the project for the
past one year, fearing for their safety, especially since the
nuclear disaster at Fukushima in Japan March 2011.
With police resorting to cane and lobbing of tear gas, protestors
started running and some tried to escape by running towards the
sea.
A Tamil television channel showed protestors throwing sand and
stones at the police while being lobbed with tear gas shells.
The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) that is
spearheading the anti-KNPP movement had decided to take its fight
against the Rs. 17,120-crore project near the plant, away from
Idinthakarai village near Kudankulam.
On Sunday around 8,000 people including women and children from
eight villages near Kudankulam assembled at the beach since
morning to stage their protest.
There is a prohibitory order against the assembly of people near
the plant. Around 4,000 policemen have been deployed around the
plant site.
Police officials were not available for comment, and the
whereabouts of the PMANE leaders are not known.
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