Amongst the movies that I have watched in last few months 3 of them had a precious little message. ‘The blind side’, ‘Avatar’ and ‘The cove’.
I take the case of avatar for this post.
Bombing a defenseless population by means of sophisticated weaponry for economical benefits.
Most striking dialogs were ‘We will fight terror with terror’ and ‘we can teach them english’ :-).
The movie has striking similarity to what we see in present world like allegations on bush for the oil war or Reminders of our colonized past. Natives Navis to be uprooted and terrorising the terrorists?
Relating it to what I have seen around mostly in india and some outside:
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Problems with maoists in orissa. A part of which sits on trillion $$ deposits of bauxite. Which need to be uprooted by corrupt politicians and the industrialists meaning kicking out the natives in 100s of native villages.
DAWN.COM | World | Mr Chidambaram?s War -
Navleen kumar. An activist who worked against illegal acquisition of tribals land around bombay. Stabbed on roof of her apartment building. Martyr for a cause.
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A quick search on a story I remembered from shell oil lead me to this page:
Boycott Shell/Free Nigeria: The main issues
In most cases local government accomplice in the crimes.
Since Shell began drilling oil in Ogoniland in 1958, the people of Ogoniland have had pipelines built across their farmlands and in front of their homes, suffered endemic oil leaks from these very pipelines, been forced to live with the constant flaring of gas. This environmental assault has smothered land with oil, killed masses of fish and other aquatic life, and introduced devastating acid rain to the land of the Ogoni4. For the Ogoni, a people dependent upon farming and fishing, the poisoning of the land and water has had devastating economic and health consequences5. Shell claims to clean up its oil spills, but such “clean-ups” consist of techniques like burning the crude which results in a permanent layer of crusted oil meters thick and scooping oil into holes dug in surrounding earth (a temporary solution at best, with the oil flowing out of the hole during the Niger Delta’s frequent bouts of rain)
- I wonder if someone could relate it to the case of balochis?