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Last women in town fight for their community’s survival as copper mine closes in
The women are nurses, school teachers, students and homemakers. They span three generations. And they are up for a fight.Nearly two dozen women are at the centre of a battle to relocate their village in eastern Serbia away from a copper mine that they say has polluted their land and water and ruined the surrounding countryside.Since January, while the men of the village go to work, the women have taken turns guarding a barricade on a bridge in Krivelj to stop trucks from entering the mine, which China’s Zijin Mining operates.Zijin’s subsidiary, Serbia Zijin Copper, has acknowledged the problems and...
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