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Rich landowners and crocodile politicians made breeches to save their lands and sank millions of common people in flood waters
Villagers say landowners breached levees to save their own property
Pakistani villagers say landowners breached levees to save their own property
Several canal walls were breached during last month’s floods, and accusations are mounting that the ruptures were deliberate. But an irrigation chief says the surging Indus [River Sindh] alone is to blame. …
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Pakistanis Suspect Landowners of Diverting Floods
By Sebastian Abbot and Ashraf Khan
As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumors that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property and inundate the villages and fields of millions of poor Pakistanis.
Courtesy: The Washington Post, September 7, 2010
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