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Activists happy Rio Tinto bosses quit following company's desecration of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site
Survival International warns the destruction of indigenous lands is ‘pretty much the business model’ for companies like Rio Tinto
ACTIVISTS in Australia welcomed the removal of a global mining corporation's CEO alongside two other bosses today after the company blew up a sacred Aboriginal site.
During a mining operation in May the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto obliterated caves at the Juukan Gorge containing 46,000-year-old rock shelters sacred to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples .
CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques, head of corporate relations Simone Niven and head of iron ore Chris Salisbury stepped down in disgrace yesterday, four months after the act of cultural vandalism.
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