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HRD Attack

13 Apr 2021

Konkola Copper Mines workers

Incident date
13 Apr 2021
Date accuracy
All Correct
Konkola Copper Mines workers
Not applicable
Beatings & violence
Target: Group, Organisation or Institution
Location of Incident: Zambia
Vedanta Resources Limited Regno Unito Mining, Metals & steel, Oil, gas & coal
ZCCM Investments Zambia Mining

Vedanta Resources Limited

Company Response

Sources

On 13 April 2021, police arrested 20 KCM contractor workers who were protesting poor conditions of service. One of the local political parties described the action taken by police against defenseless workers as "revolting" and asked the government to pay Konkola Copper Mines workers rather than beating and arresting them: “The Socialist Party in the Copperbelt strongly condemns the teargassing of, and attack against, hundreds of unarmed and poor miners by the Zambian police at Konkola Copper Mines in Chingola district,” party spokesperson Joseph Kangwa said. “These actions by men and women in uniform is revolting for the working people of Zambia. We blame the KCM management and the [President Edgar] Lungu government for this. The workers were just peacefully staging a protest to demand improvements in their working conditions."

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