Almost two decades into a conflict that pitted the indigenous community of Chinese Landing against a miner who leased his mining concessions to a Canadian company, villagers have now been ordered to stop mining on their titled land within which the concessions fall but say they will continue to work.
“We prepared to go to jail, we prepared to go. What else we get to do? They got to take this whole village (to jail),” village councillor Veron Millington said yesterday even as she explained that mining is what the village depends on to earn money, buy food and send
