The Chinese Landing Village Council yesterday said that it never asked government to stop all mining on its lands as some of its villagers earn their livelihoods this way and it continued to differ with the decision of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to dispatch a “fact-finding” mission in response to a resolution of the IACHR.
In a major victory for the village, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on July 21 asked the government to institute protective measures for Chinese Landing following its petition citing transgressions by miners.
After announcing that a fact-finding mission would be dispatched to the Region One village in the wake of the IACHR resolution, the government went further on Wednesday night and announced a temporary halt to mining in the community.
