December 14, 2020
The human rights abuses that plagued the Enron Corporation’s Dabhol power plant in India from 1992 to 1998 demonstrate the need for US government agencies to scrutinise such controversial projects more closely, the Human Rights Watch said.
In 1999, Human Rights Watch charged in a 166-page report, “The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations,” that Enron subsidiaries paid local law enforcement agencies to suppress opposition to its power plant in Maharashtra.
“Enron is now being widely accused of arrogance and lack of transparency, but the people of Dabhol have known that all along,” said Arvind Ganesan, director of the Business and Human Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. “Enron was complicit in human rights abuse in India for several years.”