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Monday, October 21, 2013

Operations of Glencore-Xstrata mining linked to killings of indigenous people?

The Tampakan copper-gold mine aims to start commercial operations, but after being delayed three times by massive opposition from local communities, environmental groups and local governments, its target date has now been pushed back to 2019. The Capions are among families of the B’laan indigenous people who are staunchly opposed to the Tampakan mine.

“It is deplorable how quickly the court decided to view the evidence of the massacre of the Capion family as ‘insufficient,’ when the facts clearly implicate the paramilitary group sponsored by Glencore-Xstrata-SMI under the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Task Force KITACO.
http://bulatlat.com/main/2013/10/21/operations-of-glencore-xstrata-mining-linked-to-killings-of-indigenous-people/

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