World's largest gold mine halts production
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Freeport guards shot by arrows in Indonesia's Papua
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Papua mine stopped by protests
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Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, sits on the board of directors of the parent company, Freeport McMoRan, USA, based in New Orleans. (In 1993, the US Environmental Protection Agency released its 1993 pollution statistics for the entire USA. For the second year in a row, Freeport-McMoRan was the largest polluter of land, air and water, both in terms of volume and toxicity, in the whole of North America).
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"[Villagers] were beaten with rattan, sticks, and rifle butts, and kicked with boots," one tribal leader told Catholic Church officials. "[Some] were tortured till they died." Neither investigation addresses whether Freeport played a role in the killings, although the church report notes that one murder took place on a company bus and three villagers died under torture at a Freeport workshop.
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Freeport McMoRan's Corporate Profile
("We find President Suharto to be a compassionate man.")
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Freeport McMoRan: Environmental Issues
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Freeport McMoRan: Committing Genocide in West Papua
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Freeport-McMoRan In Govt Pollution Probe
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