MIDROC controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2018
Lega Dembi environmental and human-rights allegations
MIDROC's Lega Dembi gold mine has been accused by local communities, researchers, and human-rights organizations of hazardous-waste pollution, including alleged mercury, arsenic, and cyanide contamination; deforestation; displacement of Gujii communities; inadequate consultation; exclusion of local residents from employment; and resulting health and livestock impacts. Protests were reportedly met with serious abuses by security forces, including arbitrary arrests, killings, torture or ill-treatment, and enforced disappearances. The allegations are documented in reporting and human-rights assessments, but the supplied material does not provide a definitive judicial resolution of every claim.