Accused of War Crimes, Oil Giant Shielded by US Supreme Court
Striking a blow to a decades-long fight for justice, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday shielded the oil giant Occidental and the security contractor AirScan from charges of human rights violations stemming from their role in the 1998 cluster bombing of a Colombian village that killed 19 civilians.
In refusing to revive the lawsuit, the top court sided with a November 2014 decision (pdf) in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which held that the families of victims could not pursue the claims against the two U.S.-based companies under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victims Protection Act.
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Occidental stands accused of numerous other human rights abuses, through its drilling on the ancestral territory of the U’wa people, as well as its role in pressing the Colombian military to violently repress protests.
