Pathanamthitta: “Our fight against the proposed Notre-Dame-Des-Landes (NDDL) airport in the French administrative province of Brittany is very much akin to the one here at Aranmula. Both the popular agitations are aimed at protecting the remaining farmlands and the environment,” say Adelaide Rejov Mechain and Thomas Cadet from Brittany.
They came to Aranmula on Tuesday to study the situation here. Talking to The Hindu on Wednesday, Ms. Mechain and Mr. Cadet said they came to know about the Aranmula stir from a Human Rights Law Network office-bearer, Sandhya, in Kochi.
“As in the case of Aranmula, we too have around 300 landless people as occupiers of the farmlands that have been identified as the site for the controversial airport project in Brittany. They cultivate cereals there. We are grateful to the people of India because many organisations here have expressed solidarity with our cause,” they said. With the help of translators, they also interacted with a group of landless people later.
Ms. Mechain said the agitators in Brittany stood for the cause of keeping the fields for farming as well as grazing cows.
25/02/16 Radhakrishnan Kuttoor/The Hindu
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They came to Aranmula on Tuesday to study the situation here. Talking to The Hindu on Wednesday, Ms. Mechain and Mr. Cadet said they came to know about the Aranmula stir from a Human Rights Law Network office-bearer, Sandhya, in Kochi.
“As in the case of Aranmula, we too have around 300 landless people as occupiers of the farmlands that have been identified as the site for the controversial airport project in Brittany. They cultivate cereals there. We are grateful to the people of India because many organisations here have expressed solidarity with our cause,” they said. With the help of translators, they also interacted with a group of landless people later.
Ms. Mechain said the agitators in Brittany stood for the cause of keeping the fields for farming as well as grazing cows.
25/02/16 Radhakrishnan Kuttoor/The Hindu
