Word: indah
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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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...
...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...
...Lhokseumawe. From Feb. 24 to March 3, mines blew up under three buses carrying ExxonMobil's employees. When mortars landed on a facility called Point A later in March, the company's security advisers decided things had become too dangerous. The firm shuttered its operations and evacuated Bukit Indah, leaving it in the hands of the now beefed-up military...
...July 2 an ExxonMobil spokeswoman said that security had been restored to the company's satisfaction. Foreign employees are expected to return to Bukit Indah's tennis courts and swimming pools...