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originally posted by: worldstarcountry
First a transitional government needs to be setup, usually in a nearby jurisdiction. Then the appointed leaders who often have no connection to the troubled state must sign over ownership of all kinds of mines, ports and other infrastructure to foreign capital. Then the imf or world bank will underwrite a loan, which typically include the cost of any peacekeeping operation into the budget. After this has all been formalized with zero publicity and transparency, then the heroes of public relations will deploy to pretend to give a damn for about 2-5 years. After that the new government is on their own while making payments with interest to foreign banks. Isn't life in the modern world grand??
On a radio program, the Eurasian Minerals president David Cole boasted about Haiti: "We control over 1,100 square miles of real estate", while investor Mickey Fulp wrote: "It is obvious there is substantial geopolitical risk in Haiti. But the geology is just so damn good."
With a pro-business government and about 10,000 UN peacekeepers stationed around the country, the risk in today's Haiti is minimal, and the price of gold has been at or above $1,500 an ounce for more than a year. Mining companies say they have spent $30 million digging, drilling and testing the deposits of mostly "alluvial" or "invisible" gold that are part of the same mineralisation belt that holds the largest gold reserve in the Americas – the Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic. This year, Barrick and Goldcorp will begin producing at the newly refurbished pit mine, going after what they claim is at least another 23.7 million ounces of gold and 141.8 million ounces of silver.
originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
Who financed Dr Sanon and 20-odd mercenaries?
The Company's ownership includes both institutional and individual investors. Largest shareholders include the Rule Family Trust (16.51%), Newmont (5.95%), the Lundin family (5.25%), the CEO (3.91%) and Directors (2.5%).
Lundin is chairman of Lundin Petroleum.
Together with his older brother Lukas Lundin, he has a net worth of at least US$2.5 billion.[2]
On 11 November 2021, Lundin was indicted in Stockholm District Court for abetting grave war crimes in Sudan. He risks a life sentence if convicted.[3][4][5]
Shortly after Lundin Oil had found oil in Block 5A during 1999, the Sudanese military, together with the same militia group allied to the regime, led offensive military operations to take control of the area and create the necessary preconditions for Lundin Oil’s oil exploration. This led to series of fighting that, with short interruptions, lasted until Lundin Oil left the area during 2003.
In the view of the prosecutor, the Sudanese government, through the military and militia allied to the regime, carried out a war in conflict with international humanitarian law and that, according to Swedish law, constitutes grave war crimes.
”In our view, the investigation shows that the military and its allied militia systematically attacked civilians or carried out indiscriminate attacks. For example, aerial bombardments from transport planes, shooting civilians from helicopter gunships, abducting and plundering civilians and burning entire villages and their crops so that people did not have anything to live by. Consequently, many civilians were killed, injured and displaced from Block 5A”, says Head of the Investigation, Public Prosecutor Henrik Attorps.
Furthermore, the prosecutor argues that the accused, in different ways, were complicit in war crimes. It is this complicity that is now under indictment.