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Injured men sue Vancouver company after Guatemalan mine shooting
By Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press June 18, 2014
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver company at the centre of ongoing clashes between anti-mining protesters and its silver mine in Guatemala is now being challenged on Canadian soil.
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The incident that prompted the lawsuit occurred last year during a turbulent two-week period that saw the country's government declare a state of emergency and ban public gatherings in four townships. The men's statement of claim which contains unproven allegations that haven't been tested in court lays out a series events they allege happened during the evening of April 27, 2013.
The men claim they were peacefully protesting on a public road in front of the mine gates when security guards donning riot gear emerged and proceeded to open fire at close range, the document says.
Adolfo Garcia was shot in the back while retreating, with the projectile lodging near his spine, the statement of claim says. Luis Monroy was shot in the face, ultimately losing his sense of smell, the document says. The other men, farmers and a student who ranged in age from 17 to their late 40s, were struck in the legs, knee and foot, the document says. The statement of claim alleges the weapons included shotguns, pepper spray, buck shot and rubber bullets.
The statement of claim alleges the shooting was planned and directed by the company's manager of security, Alberto Rotondo Dall'Orso, who was carrying out a campaign to "suppress" local opposition to the mine. The document also alleges the manager instructed his guards to "falsify accounts of the shooting and destroy or cover up evidence."
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http://www.canada.com/news/Injured+Vancouver+company+after+Guatemalan+mine+shooting/9951428/story.html
delrem
(9,688 posts)a multi-national corp. using tools and methods that in civilized countries are only used by well trained and regulated national (or provincial, or state) police forces, where again because we're talking about civilized countries, there is appropriate oversight.
Like the baddest days of Pinkerton mercenaries.
This is another topic that our dearly beloved neo-lib, neo-con, neo-fascist contingent, in whatever depths they reside, don't like to address.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)originally destroyed human laborers in the United States before they got powerful enough to raise their eyes to more distant horizons and new lands to plunder and devastate.
A lot of US Americans seem completely oblivious of the fact companies here hired henchmen who tortured, mutilated, murdered US citizens on the way to the power they wield now, while wearing their self-righteous, smug little smirks.
They're nothing but dirtbags, and their descendants descended from sub-human, blood-thirsty monsters.