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  • New Internationalist Nov99

  • West Papua

  • Hawk airplanes terrorize Papua


    Broken Hill Proprietary BHP Australia's (in)famous mining company
    1000 Hits from Google
    BH Shareholders for Social Responsibility
    BHP combines with Utah International
    BHP's OK Tedi Mine
    Australia Financial Times and World Bank Report March 2000
          BHP's OK Tedi Mine Needs to be Closed
    Michigan's Journal of the International Institute 1996
          Cleaning Up OK Tedi
    Asian Times Aug 99
          BHP Admits OK Tedi Environmental Disaster
    Villagers vs BHP over the OK Tedi

  • Google 1500 Hits on Freeport and Papua

    1996 Riots Shut Freeport Down
    Survival International '97       Freeport: 4 tribal people killed
    Sukarto invaded West Papua in 61-62 and transmigration is used to undercut the demand for independence
    Papua's Forced Choice
    Enver Masud (22sep99 Truth About Islam)
    In April 1967 Freeport McMoRan became the first foreign company granted an operating permit following the 1965-66 U.S.-backed coup that installed General Suharto. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is credited with having introduced company officials to President Suharto. Mr. Kissinger sits on Freeport's board earning $25,000 a year, and is paid an annual retainer of $200,000 for consultation work.

    In 1999 Freeport McMoRan received approval to almost double production, which will increase land seizures and environmental damage. With reserves valued at $40 billion, the Freeport project is the largest single gold deposit in the world and the third largest open-cut copper mine.