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...ExxonMobil's private security guards?the guys in the white uniforms?man their posts side-by-side with Indonesian soldiers. If they have anything bad to say about the new troops, they aren't talking. All questions are referred to the local army commander...
...ExxonMobil's senior executives are not bad people. Bukit Indah's setup shows they care about their employees. If they have to be in a place with a war, employees have to be kept safe?and that means depending on the army. They are required by their contract with the government to fund the troops?they have even made sure there is a clause that prohibits the soldiers from conducting any offensive operations in the field. ExxonMobil no doubt thinks it has done all it can do in a difficult spot...
...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 pleaded ignorance, saying if substantiated claims of abuse were brought to its attention, it "would aggressively respond to and denounce such actions...
...operations nor asked that they be replaced. The mass grave that might be sitting on its partner's property has apparently never been investigated. And as claims of atrocities have increased, so have activists doubts about the company's goodwill. A long list of questions was e-mailed to ExxonMobil for this story, but the company said it could not respond while the ilrf case is in litigation. Instead it sent a half-page statement: "ExxonMobil condemns the violation of human rights in any form ... We reject the charge of ExxonMobil's involvement in human rights violations...
...much consolation to 17-year-old Afrina. When she tells her story, villagers hover nearby, some weeping. But Afrina does not cry. In a matter-of-fact way, she tells how soldiers came looking for her father last January in a village that nestles up against the gates of ExxonMobil's Cluster I gas field. They didn't find him, so they took her instead. For three days, she sat in a pool of water in a warehouse fronted by a sign that read: "You are now entering the Mobil premises." The soldiers told her to remove her clothing...