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Anonymous Issue Appeal To Take Down Chinese Mining Site

Anonymous Issue Appeal To Take Down Chinese Mining Site

China’s paramilitary beat and arrested Tibetan women who opposed mining of a local mountain.

Image:credited to a listener of RFA

This week China’s regime sent in its psychopaths to crush a protest against a Chinese company that is mining for copper ore at a mountain sacred to local Tibetans. A group of Tibetan women from Dechen in Kham region of occupied Tibet staged a protest at the site, the…

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Hundreds of tourists became trapped in Panama Monday when an indigenous tribe blocked major roads, including the Pan-American Highway, near the border with Costa Rica.

Members of the Ngöbe-Buglé tribe are protesting a national mining law in their country and would continue until the Panamanian Legislative Assembly steps in.

President Laura Chinchilla today sent a humanitarian mission to Chiriquí, Panama to rescue the 300 Costa Ricans who said they had been held hostage by the tribe, fed only oranges for the past five days.  

Officials from the Costa Rica National Emergency Commission, the Ministry of Immigration and the Ministry of Health, this afternoon said they were successfully coordinating a safe return for those caught in the protest, giving priority to women, children and people with disabilities.

With hope, we will be able to return everyone to Costa Rica by the end of the weekend, said officials.  

3 February 2012 | 10:54pm Potrero Post Costa Rica