"41. The Mobil Companies and Defendant PT Arun were no strangers to the atrocities committed by the Indonesian military during the DOM period in Aceh. At the inception of the Arun Project, the Mobil Companies were specifically aware of the Suharto regime's extreme brutality and the public record of TNI's extreme brutality, particularly with respect to ethnic minorities within Indonesia. This knowledge was repeatedly confirmed by ongoing, specific, and publicly reported acts of terror and violence by the TNI, including those assigned specifically to provide “security” for the Arun Project. By November 30, 1999, when Defendant Exxon Mobil became the parent company of the Mobil Companies following the merger of Exxon Corporation with Mobil, there was a clear public record of pervasive and systematic human rights violations perpetrated upon the innocent noncombatant villagers of Aceh by the TNI troops specifically hired to provide “security” for the Arun Project and that had received direct support from the Mobil Companies and Defendant PT Arun. For example, the Mobil Companies provided logistical and material support to the Indonesian troops throughout the DOM period, including:
(a) the construction and/or provision of buildings and supplies for two military barracks located on or next to the Mobil Companies' natural gas extraction facilities and Defendant PT Arun's liquefication plant, commonly referred to as “Post 13” and “Rancong Camp,” respectively, and which were used by Indonesian “Kopassus” (special forces) units to interrogate, torture and murder Achenese civilians suspected of engaging in separatist activities;
(b) the provision of heavy equipment such as excavators so that the Indonesian military could dig mass graves to bury their Achenese victims; and
(c) the use of roads constructed by the Mobil Companies and/or their contractors to transport the military's Achenese victims to mass graves located near the Mobil Companies' extraction operations and Defendant PT Arun's adjoining liquefication facilities.
Thus, acting upon the ethnic tensions between the Aceh people and the Indonesian government, the Indonesian military used the pretense of providing “security” for the Arun Project to practice genocide on the people of Aceh, and in furtherance of this program, the troops specifically assigned to protect the Arun Project used the facilities at Rancong Camp and Post 13 to round up, torture and slaughter thousands of ethnic Achenese people."
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