farmlandgrab.org | End intimidation around Sierra Leone oil palm project - 0 views
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In May 2011, Green Scenery released a report on SAC's oil palm project in Sierra Leone, which highlighted inadequate compensation, corruption, and pressure on land owners and chiefs to sign agreements to give up their land.1
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“Bolloré and Fabri are using a defamation suit to silence local opposition and to intimidate an NGO whose only crime is to defend the basic rights of local farmers whose land is being taken away.” says Frédéric Mousseau of the Oakland Institute.
