Slums razed to suit Delhi's middle class

Tens of thousands are made homeless to make way for a leisure complex

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Mohammed Ibrahim woke to Delhi's sun and waited for his life to collapse. He had known it was inevitable from the blaring megaphone driven past his door the day before. By 6am three generations of the rickshaw driver's family had ferried their possessions into the open. Just after 9am, six bulldozers crushed to rubble the two-room home he had built.

With the machines, Ibrahim says, came more than 1,000 police officers carrying tear gas and batons. They destroyed his neighbours' houses too. Up to a third of a million people living in Delhi's biggest slum are being evicted under a government plan to transform the banks of the city's Yamuna river into a tourist and leisure centre.

'Ibrahim said: 'Without my home, I feel like a dead man.'

Slums razed to suit Delhi's middle class....

:argh:

I hope they strike back.

With corporatism comes greed and cold-heartedness, like you've never witnessed before.

:kick:

One of the biggest WMDs the western allies use.