Loading ...Barrick’s Tanzania gold mine hit by new police abuse accusations
A corporate watchdog is alleging that local police are killing and assaulting villagers around a Tanzanian mine owned by Barrick Gold Corp. The Canadian miner denies that it is responsible for police conduct.
UK-based RAID said in a report that since 2019, when Barrick took operational control of the North Mara mine, at least four people have been killed and seven others seriously injured by local police, sometimes after villagers enter the site in search of waste rock. A lawsuit over assaults that occurred before 2019 is going before a British court this week.
Barrick’s Tanzania gold mine hit by new police abuse accusations