When a Canadian multinational took over control of a peasant gold mine in 1996 they had one problem - it was the lifeblood of a local community of peasant miners. Since then, what happened to the local miners who were deep in the shafts of the mine when the Vancouver-based company sent in the bulldozers has been a matter of controversy. The evidence that has surfaced since 1996 - ranging from a firestorm of memos and reports to disputed photographs and videos which may show the dead bodies of exhumed peasant miners - has inspired human rights lawyer Tundu Lissu to lead a growing number who say an independent inquiry is the only way to put this matter to rest, says this investigative piece from www.zmag.org [5].