> I guess once you've spotted a scummy Indian mining company you start to see them all over?
Non-Indian[1] mining companies operate in a similar way. When the mines they operate are in the global south, political and indigenous opponents to them have a habit of ending up in pieces.
Oh, it's not the executives in Toronto that are ordering organizers murdered and stuffed into oil drums - it's just the problem-solvers that their overseas branches happen to employ...
Just to be clear here, the Toronto TSX and TSXV exchanges are home to more mining companies than any other market in the globe; as such companies listed there aren't neccesarily majority owned or controlled by Canadian citizens (although there is a huge Anglo-Australian presence there).
That said, shitty behaviour in the "global south" (or towards indigenous land holders enclaved with the US, Canada, or Australia) is common enough across the board no matter the nationalities of majority owners and board members.
Non-Indian[1] mining companies operate in a similar way. When the mines they operate are in the global south, political and indigenous opponents to them have a habit of ending up in pieces.
Oh, it's not the executives in Toronto that are ordering organizers murdered and stuffed into oil drums - it's just the problem-solvers that their overseas branches happen to employ...
[1] https://justice-project.org/the-canada-brand-violence-and-ca...