Former US attorney general visits Nandigram

NANDIGRAM: Former US attorney-general Ramsay Clark on Thursday slammed the West Bengal government for 'perpetrating atrocities' on the people of Nandigram as part of a globalisation drive to set up industries there.
    
"We can understand your sufferings at the hands of the attackers and the police," Clark, who along with Senator Sarah Flounders and a US trade union leader Steve Kirschbaun, visited BUPC refugees at the Brajamohan Tiwari High School relief camp here, said.
    
"What is happening here, is happening in many places in the world. It is a government serving the rich at the cost of the poor. Your life and property are being taken away to set up an industry (chemical hub) without considering the disastrous Bhopal gas tragedy that took many lives," Clark said.
    
"We are from the US to get the first hand knowledge of the extent of exploitation in this part of the country," Clark said, adding that they would tell Americans about the sufferings of the people of Nandigram and mobilise public opinion.
    
The three, visiting Nandigram, are members of a Delhi-based human rights body, 'Anti-Imperialist Forum'.