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table 3.2 Development Projects of Multinational
Corporations (MNCs) That Have Injured Indigenous Peoples’
Well-being and That Have Been Cited as Genocidal or Ethnocidal
Project and Company Country Effects
Ecuador Oil Developments Ecuador Waorani and other Indians
(Texaco, Maxus Oil Co., forced off land, massive
and Conoco, etc.) environmental problems
with oil spills, poisoning
of water, loss of biodiversity
Freeport-MacMoRan West Papua Amungme and other
Copper and Gold Mining (Irian Jaya) West Papuans dispossessed,
crackdowns on local people,
ecological destruction,
intimidation
Unocal Burma Alleged complicity in slavery,
forced relocation, torture,
murder, and disappearances
in the area of a Unocal
pipeline
Shell Oil Nigeria Development of oil
production and refining
facilities in the Ogoni region
of Nigeria led to habitat
destruction, pressure on the
Ogoni people by the
Nigerian state
Tanzania Wheat Tanzania Barabaig agropastoralists
Project (CIDA) removed from their lands,
harrassed and jailed, denied
access to winter grazing
Logging Companies Malaysia Deforestation, dispossession
(e.g., Mitsubishi) and oppression of resident
Penan and other groups
Western Desert Uranium Australia Aboriginals forced out of
Mining (e.g., Rio Tito Zinc) traditional areas, land and
sacred sites affected, some
problems with mining
residues
note: For additional case material, see Human Rights Watch and Natural Resources Defense
Council (1992); Johnston (1994, 1997); Gedicks (1993); Sachs (1995); Hitchcock (1994, 1997); see also the
Multinational Monitor.