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Article

12 Feb 2016

Author:
Honduras Solidarity Network & Community boards of Azacualpa, San Andrés Minas, El Cedro, La Ceiba, Toreras and Esquin & the Azacualpa Environmental Committee

Community fears Toronto-based Aura Minerals preparing to Illegally remove cemetery in Honduras with military support

…Aura Minerals' gold mine in La Unión, Copan, Honduras cannot expand without exhuming and relocating hundreds of family members buried in the community cemetery. Aura Mineral's subsidiary MINOSA has not compiled with even the basic standards for cemetery relocation, including receiving legal permission from the next of kin, presenting a relocation strategy that is fair and acceptable to the local communities, adequate monetary compensation, and community consultation…Aura Minerals is violating the weak and unenforceable Equator Principles by criminalizing local leaders resisting the cemetery relocation; ignoring, entirely, the communities wishes related to the fate of their cemetery; and not presenting an appropriate cemetery relocation plan for community consultation…