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exxon mobil corporation
on stage at the 2001 annual shareholders meeting lee raymond age 62 charman and CEO of Exxonmobil was in control On the the floor radhi darmansyah an indonesian villager stood before a microphone ready to issue a challenge
while you made $26 million ... last year Mr.Raymond more than one thousand six hundred of my people were killed maimed or tortored around your facilities in Aceh I am here to ask for your help
in aceh province radhi s home the company extracts natural gas from beneath arain forest generating billions of dollars in revenue for itself and for the lndonesian government aceh is also the base of guerilla movement and without the govenment soldiers who patrol the 500 square mile field exxon workers would be in danger the soldiers have a history of brutalizing the villagers who fish and grow rice undernthe tropical sun and who sympathize with the rebels in faltering english radhi continued