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October 27, 2011

Lawsuit Revived Against Mining Giant Rio Tinto For War Crimes in Papua New Guinea 
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A U.S. federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing mining giant
Rio Tinto of committing genocide and war crimes in Papua New Guinea,
where it once ran one of the world's largest copper and gold mines. In
their lawsuit, current and former residents of the island of
Bougainville claimed that Rio Tinto decimated the island and forced
native workers to live in "slave like" conditions.



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