War on Want's film exposes the reality of Anglo American mining activities in Colombia.
Colombia has suffered over 40 years of civil war between left-wing guerrillas and government troops backed by paramilitary forces, a conflict which has left thousands dead and caused the internal displacement of approximately three million people.
Anglo Americans subsidiary AngloGold Ashanti has been actively exploring in Colombia since 1999. Its presence is fuelling conflict and human rights abuses by the Colombian army.
In the Sur de Bolívar region of northern Colombia, AngloGold Ashanti is the beneficiary of a brutal campaign by state security forces designed to intimidate communities and force people off their land to make way for mining operations.
AngloGold Ashanti’s subsidiary Kedahda is seeking to initiate operations in the San Lucas mountains. Local community groups claim that 2,300 people have been displaced from their land and that communities have been subjected to arbitrary arrests, pillage, threats, the burning of houses and extrajudicial executions
In September 2006, Colombian mining leader Alejandro Uribe was assassinated. Uribe had been leading the community’s peaceful opposition to AngloGold Ashanti’s mining in the region and was seeking an investigation into the killing of another mining union leader the month before.
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