Buyat Bay : Newmont’s Case

Introduction PT Newmont Minahasa Raya (NMR) is a joint venture with 80% ownership with Newmont Gold Company (USA), PT Tanjung Serapung (Indonesia) has a 20% stake. PT. MRI is located in the southeastern part of Minahasa, about 80 km south of the capital city of South Sulawesi, Manado. PTNMR started operations of open pit mining in 1996 and stopped operation after reclaiming deposits in 2001. They began producing gold in 1996 and began piping the entire tailings to Buyat Bay.

Maxima is not the only local landowner charged with Newmont. For over three years, the company has been involved in another land dispute. This time includes acquisition of land near Yanakocha mine. The Pahares family dates back to this area in 1954 and has a title that claims Newmont possesses land illegally. In response to this conflict, the company raised 28 cases against the 22 children of the Pajares family, demanding disadvantageous possession and taking some measures to expel land ownership. On 5th September, Newmont sent civilian security personnel using pepper spray and pellet gun to local residents, including members of the Pajales family, and tried to evict on 5th September.

Newmont's recent attempts to develop a proposed Conga gold mine in an important hydromassage area have resulted in years of tension, violent repression and thousands of false legal attacks against local people . The conviction of offenders around New Mont's mines in Peru is increasingly concerned in Latin America as a whole, where the social movement demanding rights is the subject of litigation. According to the report of the Americas Human Rights Committee, this strategy is aimed at "to degenerate or justify its cause", which adversely affects democratic values ​​and the rule of law.

Without the end, Maxima and his family got lawsuits from Earth Rights International, filed suit against Newmont and its three affiliates, "preventing the harassment and physical and mental abuse of the Chaupe family We will seek a model to do. " In the hands of a security officer working at Monte and its company subsidiary. "The lawsuit was raised in the federal court of Delaware on 15th September and claims that the Newmont Council and the executive team are responsible for violent campaigns that formulate and manage human rights standards and enforce their entry into the Conga mine Request compensation and punitive damages for family members and reduce future human rights violations by companies and their affiliates