Akali Tange Association

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]

Akali Tange Association Inc.
PurposeCommunity advocacy, human rights
HeadquartersPorgera
Executive Officer
McDiyan Robert Yapari
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/akalitange/

Organisation

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]

History

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]

References
  1. "MINING #7 - Barrick and the Cruelty of Gold". CANADALAND. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  2. "PNG does deal with 'devil' it knows over gold mine". FijiTimes. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  3. McSheffrey, Elizabeth; April 25th 2017 (25 April 2017). "Mining violence survivors demand justice in Toronto". Canada's National Observer. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  4. KUMBON, DANIEL. "Pressure on for mining review". Post-Courier. Papua New Guinea.
  5. KOLO, P. (14 June 2006). "Porgera mine probe welcomed". Guinea Post - Courier. ProQuest 375849696.
  6. "McDiyan Robert Yapari". Front Line Defenders. 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  7. Bainton, Nicholas; Owen, John R.; Skrzypek, Emilia E. (2021). "Afterword: States of Uncertainty". In Bainton, Nicholas A.; Skrzypek, Emilia E. (eds.). The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects. ANU Press. pp. 347–359. doi:10.22459/AP.2021. hdl:20.500.12657/50771. ISBN 978-1-76046-449-3.
  8. Coumans, Catherine (April 2011). "Occupying Spaces Created by Conflict: Anthropologists, Development NGOs, Responsible Investment, and Mining". Current Anthropology. 52 (S3): S29–S43. doi:10.1086/656473. S2CID 153606473.
  9. Manning, Susan M. (October 2016). "Intersectionality in resource extraction: a case study of sexual violence at the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 18 (4): 574–589. doi:10.1080/14616742.2016.1189670. S2CID 148323549.
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