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The corpse of a man lies on the floor. His head is not visible. Handcuffs are attached to one wrist and his feet are bound.
Fatal protest: a village chief beaten to death by plantation security thugs (© Feri Irawan)

A tangle of conflicts: the dirty business of palm oil

May 3, 2014Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading weekly news magazine, reported the story behind our Murder and Mayhem for EU Biofuels campaign on its international website. Read the article in English here.

The Spiegel article in English.

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The corpse of a man lies on the floor. His head is not visible. Handcuffs are attached to one wrist and his feet are bound.

Land grabbing for biofuels gets lethal

74,497 supporters The EU’s push toward "green" biofuels has claimed new victims in a plantation owned by Asiatic Persada, a palm oil company in Indonesia. Our local partner came to the aid of five gravely wounded locals and documented the slaying of a village chief. Please speak out against the EU's tragically misguided biofuels policies!

Destruction of the rainforest

Palm oil – deforestation for everyday products

Palm oil is literally everywhere – in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. How could it come to this? What can we do to protect people and nature?

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