No Justice, No Peace: Canadian Mining in Ecuador and Impunity Intag residents lose much more than a lawsuit against the Toronto Stock Exchange and Copper Mesa http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/04/no-justice-no-peace-canadian-mining-in-ecuador-and-impunity/#more-32323

On December 2, 2006, 14 paramilitaries armed with 38-caliber guns and pepper spray fired into a group of unarmed Ecuadorian campesinos from a community that has been resisting a copper mining project for over a decade. Thankfully no one was killed, but there were several injuries, not to mention the psychological suffering caused by such a vicious attack.This assault led three of the local campesinos from Intag, Ecuador to file a lawsuit against the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and Copper Mesa Corporation,

the Canadian mining company responsible for hiring the “security firm” that sent the paramilitaries to o intimidate the anti-mining residents of the region. “I ask the noble people of Canada,” said Ramírez when she filed the lawsuit in March 2009, “that you demand from your elected authorities significant changes in your national legislation so that what has happened with Copper Mesa in Intag will never happen again, not in Intag nor in any other part of the world.”