Purpose | Community advocacy, human rights |
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Headquarters | Porgera |
Executive Officer | McDiyan Robert Yapari |
Website | https://sites.google.com/site/akalitange/ |
Akali Tange Association Inc is a human rights focused landowner's association based in Porgera, Papua New Guinea that advocates for community interests where multinational mines operate.[1][2][3]
Membership includes the relatives of more than twenty deceased "illegal miners" who have been killed near the Porgera Joint Venture.[4]
In 2006, the organisation's Executive Officer was Jethro Tulin,[5] and as of 2017, it was McDiyan Robert Yapari.[6]
In April 2005, Akali Tange published The Shooting Fields of Porgera Joint Venture documenting allegations of ongoing assaults and murders of local residents by the security contractors of Porgera Gold Mine.[1][7][8] They shared the 163 page report with MiningWatch Canada.[1] Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada described the report as gruesome and credible. The report expanded the scope of concern of activists from only environmental to also human rights.[1]
The report led to an admission from Placer Dome that their security guards and local police killed eight Papua New Guineans.[8] This led to a 2006 public commission. However, the results were not made public.[8]
In 2007, Akali Tange joined the Porgera Landowners Association to form the Porgera Alliance organization.[9]
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