There’s no sign that conflicts between trade unionists and the management of the world’s largest gold-copper mine are close to resolution. On the contrary, within recent days several more people have been murdered in Freeport-Rio Tinto’s huge Grasberg lease area in Papua (West Papua). Moreover, one Indigenous delegate was shot dead by police, and 300 arrested, during a Congress held last week by the Papuan Peoples Congress.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/11262.
See also They ask for wages, not bullets, http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/10/24/they-ask-wages-not-bullets.html
Striking Freeport miners shot dead in Indonesian strike, http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11236
and Norway’s ‘ethical divestment’ from Rio Tinto, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201182913613680545.html.