Word: exxonmobils
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...Imagine you are one of these people, an oilman from Texas maybe, reared on down-home cooking and wholesome notions of right and wrong. Suppose further you have heard that Bukit Indah's tranquility has been built on Aceh's ashes. You have been told the Indonesian troops whom ExxonMobil funds to protect you and your family?soldiers who salute you in the mornings?spend their nights burning villages, looting and killing at random. Activists are claiming that these troops have used your company's equipment to dig mass graves and are turning your company's warehouses into torture chambers...
...Anwar thinks it should. At a crowded refugee camp in a mosque not far from Bukit Indah, the 30-year-old farmer lifts his shirt to reveal thick, track-like scars, the remnants of wounds he says he received last summer when soldiers, assigned to defend ExxonMobil employees and property, whipped him nightly for a month with ropes of barbed wire. He was also burned with cigarettes and beaten unconscious with a wooden board. They did not kill him, but he wishes they had. Then he would not have had to watch the soldiers shoot his brother in the head...
...Anwar says part of his ordeal took place inside the gates of ExxonMobil's Cluster IV gas field. He says he was dragged, kicking and screaming, past men wearing white uniforms and ExxonMobil hard hats?the company's private security guards. He doesn't 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...
...Today, residents of the one-ox towns immediately bordering ExxonMobil's facilities in Aceh seem ready to storm the ramparts. Many of these towns have become breeding grounds for the rebel movement and, in some, the gam's fighters can be seen resting, rusted rifles and rocket launchers strapped over their shoulders. They are fighting the Indonesian military. But they are also fighting ExxonMobil. Late last year, the 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...
...jury. On June 20, the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund (ilrf) filed a lawsuit in the United States on behalf of 11 Acehnese men and women who say they were tortured or beaten by soldiers from the A-13 military base, located on the road connecting ExxonMobil's facilities and the city of Lhokseumawe. The troops in that camp are paid out of funds the company provides as part of its agreement with the Indonesian government. The group plans to argue that the company is liable under the centuries-old Alien Tort Claims Act, which allows companies...