viernes, 5 de septiembre de 2014

India's starving tea-garden workers - Features - Al Jazeera English

India's starving tea-garden workers - Features - Al Jazeera English

The picturesque tea gardens carpeting West
Bengal's Dooars region are gradually turning into graveyards, as dozens
of workers have fallen victim to starvation in recent months. More than
100 tea-garden workers have died of starvation in the past year amid
site closures, activists say - but rather than taking action, the state
government appears to be playing semantics: http://aje.me/1pRqNO8

 


Budhni and Hora Munda, tea-garden workers [Chinmaya N Singh/ Al Jazeera]