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Congo miner tries to explain.

Australasian Business Intelligence, November, 2005

Byline: Jamie Freed

Nov 01, 2005 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian resources group Anvil Mining rejects claims it helped the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo carry out a massacre. In the Perth-based company's quarterly report, it argues that a vehicle was taken from it at gunpoint, and mass graves were using ditches it had much earlier created in road construction. Anvil says human rights groups have gone too far in making the World Bank investigate the activities, and CEO Bill Turner has led a two- day inspection of the mining operation near Kilwa for non-government organisations. A United Nations report on the incident states Anvil declined to co-operate...

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