Since Shaanxi Mining (Ghana) Limited set foot in Talensi, a district in Ghana’s Upper East Region, in 2008 as a technical service provider, several indigenes and residents of the area have suffered mining-related deaths and disabilities.
Families of the deceased hardly receive any compensation, and the disabled survivors generally suffer neglect.
Efforts made by human rights advocates and organisations to secure compensation for the victims, some of them breadwinners and students, mostly do not yield any results. This is so because the company does not cooperate.
Some have quoted the company, now operating as a large-scale miner under the name Earl International Group (Ghana) Gold Limited, to have once said even if it would compensate the victims or their families, it would only do so on “humanitarian grounds”.
The docufilm below, titled “Horrors in a Chinese Mine”, chronicles some of the tragedies recorded since the arrival of the company in the district.
Watch the video below:
Source: Edward Adeti/Media Without Borders/mwbonline.org/Ghana/West Africa
