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12 Killed in Anti-Sterlite Protesters in Thoothukudi

Tutucorin Shooting

Source: Raj

The movement for the closure of Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper plant turned bloody on the 100th day of the agitation as 11 people, including two women, were killed when police opened fire on protesters in Thoothukudi yesterday ( 22 May). R.K. Radhakrishnan, Associate Editor, Frontline, analyses if the police shooting was a premeditated operation.



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