Rio Tinto accused over Bougainville 'genocide'

Rio Tinto accused over Bougainville 'genocide'

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A US federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit seeking to hold Rio Tinto responsible for human rights violations and thousands of deaths linked to a Bougainville copper and gold mine it once ran.

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How many times do things like this need to happen before a majority of the public get off their behinds and actually do something? Ive said it a million times but:
"PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE" is the moto of the century.
If we dont realise the danger resource corporations along with many other corporations hold to the entire human species, we will see certain doom somewhere in the future.
Shame on Rio Tinto!
Shame on the public for not doing something a long time ago!

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reply to post by ShortMemory


S&F

Gina is one evil baby elephant; Rio would orchestrate a massacre in Forrest Place if it furthered their market share. The last federal government tried to scare us about "Terrorists" with the Be alert, not alarmed bull#, but the real terrorists here are the ones that own the mining companies.

Originally posted by cartenz
reply to post by ShortMemory

 

S&F

Gina is one evil baby elephant; Rio would orchestrate a massacre in Forrest Place if it furthered their market share. The last federal government tried to scare us about "Terrorists" with the Be alert, not alarmed bull#, but the real terrorists here are the ones that own the mining companies.

hear hear!