[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited African Minerals to respond. African Minerals response provided]“Whose Development?: Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom,” documents how the government...and...African Minerals...forcibly relocated hundreds of families...in Tonkolili District. As a result, residents lost their ability to cultivate crops and engage in income generating activities that once sustained them...The Sierra Leonean government, while promoting the company’s operations as essential to Sierra Leone’s economic development, permitted corporate actions that violated the rights of Tonkolili’s residents...[and]...did not take action in response to apparent African Minerals...violations of Sierra Leone labor laws concerning employment, termination, and benefits for its workers...