The villagers languish in abject poverty, diseases and endless fatal conflicts as they look at the well-organised multinational company manning the large-scale mine exporting loads of gold from their backyards.
Their lives mostly relied on small-scale extraction of the precious stone before their leaders sold the mine to the investor in exchange for good health, education, roads and water supply services.
The empty promises prompt the furious villagers to mobilise themselves and forcefully storm into the mine and steal remnant gold stones, leading to fatal confrontations with riot police.
Youth resort to vandalism of the mine’s infrastructure apparently to frustrate the investors and force them to leave and pave the way for small-scale mining to resume.
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