Indigenous leader abducted in India
4,227 views · Published 10 August 2010 · 0:41 · Indexed 3 October 2026
Channel: Survival International · 2010 · Nonprofits & Activism
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6357 Update Aug 13 2010: The abducted men have now been released http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6337 This is Lodu (Lado) Sikaka. He is one of two tribal leaders who were abducted and are now missing. They had been at the forefront of an Indian tribe's resistance to a controversial mine planned by UK company Vedanta Resources. (From Survival news report on 10 Aug 2010) Here he speaks about why Vedanta's mine would devastate the Dongria Kondh tribe of the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa, Eastern India.
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