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* SEZs are a sweetheart deal meant to attract corporate investment; they are zones free of effective labor laws or environmental protections, a perfect ground for the exploitation of the local people and resources.
1 Prasad Nichenametla, " India's Health Worse than Neighbours , ( Business Standard , 21 October 2006 ).
2 See, for instance, Praful Bidwai, " Back to Basics ( Frontline , 30 June 2009), Dola Mitra, " The Empire Rides into a Red Sunset ( Outlook , 25 May 2009), Pranay Sharma, " Advisory: Amputate ( Outlook , 1 June 2009) and " What a Great Fall ( The Statesman , 19 May 2009).
3 See " Our Land, Their Development A Report of the International Fact-Finding Mission on the Forced Eviction of the Farming Communities in the State of West Bengal in India and the documentary " Abad Bhumi by Sumit Chowdhury.
4 Kranti Kumara, " West Bengal Stalinist Regime Perpetrates Peasant Massacre ( WSWS , 16 March 2007 ), Nilanju Datta, " Nandigram: State Sponsored Mayhem ( Countercurrents , 17 October 2007 ), Aditya Sarkar, " Nandigram: Neoliberal Policies Hit a Rock in India ( Socialist Worker , 1 December 2007 ).
5 Meenakshi Ganguly, " India: Urgent Inquiry Needed into Nandigram Violence ( Human Rights Watch , 14 January 2008), " Concern Over Human Rights Violations During "Recapture of Nandigram by Ruling CPI(M) Supporters in West Bengal ( Amnesty International , 15 January 2008).
6 Amit Bhattacharyya, " Singur to Lalgarh via Nandigram: Rising Flames of People's Anger Against Displacement, Destitution and State Terror ( International Campaign Against Forced Displacement and SEZ , 4 July 2009), Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar, " Notes on a Dying People ( Economic and Political Weekly , 27 June 2009).
7 See also Prabhat Patnaik, " Reflections on the Left ( MRZine , 7 July 2009 ).
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