Activist-Killing: The Case of Angelica Choc versus Hudbay Minerals Inc

Angelica Choc versus Hudbay Minerals Inc
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Angelica Choc versus Hudbay Minerals Inc
Ontario Superior Court of Justice (C. J. Brown J.)
Re: angelica Choc, individually as well as a personal representative of the late Adolfo Ich Chaman’s estate, plaintiffs and Huday Minerals Inc., Compania Guatemalteca de Niguel S.A and HMI Nickel Inc., defendants
And RE: Margarita Caal Caal, Olivia Asig Xol, Rosa Elbira Coc Ich, Lucia Caal Chun, Carmelina Caal Ical, Luisa Caal Chun, Irma Yolanda Choc Cac, Elena Choc Quib, Elvira Choc Chub and Irma Yolanda Choc Quib and Hudbay Minerals Inc. and HMI Nickel Inc., Defendants
And RE: German Chub Choc, Plaintiff, and Hudbay Minerals Inc. and Compara Guatemalteca de Niguel S.A., Defendants
Legal Case Analysis: Relevant Facts
The plaintiffs were indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’in Guatemala, El Estor. They alleged that mining companies that were under Canadian control, Hudbay Minerals and its wholly-controlled subsidiaries, committed human rights violations in Guatemala including, shooting, killing and gang rape within the mining project vicinity. The plaintiffs brought three disparate actions that arose from acts of violence connected to mining operation not in favor of mining company, subsidiary as well as businesses which had merged with mining company (Pena, 2014).
The case involving Margarita Caal Coal versus Hudbay Minerals Inc. was brought by eleven women against HMI and Hudbay Minerals. The plaintiffs affirmed that on 17th January 2007, they were all gang raped by mining company officers, police as well as military as they were being forcefully removed from their Lote Ocho village, requested by the Canadian mining company (Thomson Reuters, 2014).
The case involving angelica Choc versus Hudbay Minerals Inc, the plaintiffs brought an action against Hudbay Minerals as well as its subsidiaries, CGN and HMI Nickel contending that Adolfo Ich who is Angelica Choc’s husband and an esteemed indigenous leader as well as a strong critic of mining practices, had been beaten and gun shot on his head by security personnel from CGN. To be specific, the allegations were that Mynor Padilla, the Fenix mining project’ chief security personnel, short and caused the death of Adolfo Inc on 27TH September, 2009 at close range during the land dispute (Pena, 2014).
In the case of German Chub Choc versus Hudbay Minerals Inc, the plaintiffs brought a case against CGN and Hudbay Minerals in connection to a gunshot wound sustained on 27th S...