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...know why he was tortured and claims to have no opinion about the Free Aceh Movement (gam), a rebel army fighting for independence from Indonesia. He doesn't want any money from ExxonMobil. But he doesn't have much good to say about the company either. "I hate Exxon," he says, "they have no heart...
...rebels began targeting the company's employees and property, forcing it in March to suspend its operations. The townspeople say it is good the rebels are attacking ExxonMobil. In some places, people literally line up to tell stories of abuse and murders committed by the troops they call Exxon's Army...
...company can be held liable. "All we need to show is that its executives knew what was going on, based on a reasonable standard, and failed to do anything about it," he says. "There are plenty of reports out there about what has happened in Aceh. A word from Exxon's chairman to an Indonesian minister might improve things, but the company has not even done that...
...sites. Among them were the feared Kopassus, or Special Forces, responsible for much of the mayhem in East Timor before it gained independence in 1999. According to Lieut. Colonel Sadharun Nandio, spokesman for the Aceh Security Restoration Operation: "The decision to add troops was taken after consultation between Exxon, government officials and the military...
...worsened, people in Aceh say the company should do more. Reports of atrocities committed by the troops from base A-13 have been accumulating for years. In 1998, a coalition of 17 local human rights groups accused Mobil Oil (the company assumed its current name after merging with Exxon in 1999) of ignoring this evidence, including reports that soldiers were using the corporation's earthmoving equipment to bury their victims in mass graves. At least one of those graves was thought to be on Pertamina land, less than three miles from an ExxonMobil drill site. At the time, the company...