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Activists happy Rio Tinto bosses quit following company's desecration of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site
Survival International warns the destruction of indigenous lands is ‘pretty much the business model’ for companies like Rio Tinto
Former Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques, during an announcement of his company's results at the Deutsche Bank, in Great Winchester Street, London, in February 2019
Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
ACTIVISTS in Australia welcomed the removal of a global mining corporation's CEO alongside two other bosses today after the company blew up a sacred Aboriginal site.
During a mining operation in May the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto obliterated caves at the Juukan Gorge containing 46,000-year-old rock shelters sacred to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples .
CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques, head of corporate relations Simone Niven and head of iron ore Chris Salisbury stepped down in disgrace yesterday, four months after the act of cultural vandalism.
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