DJ UPDATE: Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters Of US Mine
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[March 16, 2006]

DJ UPDATE: Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters Of US Mine

(Comtex Finance Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)JAYAPURA, Indonesia, Mar 16, 2006 (Dow Jones Commodities News Select via Comtex) --(Updates with details from scene, quotes. New to some points.)

Police fired tear gas at hundreds of rock-throwing protesters demanding the closure of a U.S.-owned gold mine in Papua province Thursday, police and witnesses said. Several people were injured.

It was the third day of violent protests against the mine run by the New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.

Police wielding batons chased and attacked several protesters, who threw stones at the approaching officers, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.

Several people were injured, including two police officers who were cornered and beaten by demonstrators at the protest near a major university in the provincial capital of Jayapura.

"We want Freeport to close because it has not given any benefits to the people of Papua, in fact it's made them suffer," said Kosmos Yual, one of more than 200 protesters.

There have been several rallies in recent weeks against the gold mine - said to be the world's largest - both in Papua and in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

Freeport, which pays millions of dollars in taxes and funds scores of community projects close to the mine in central Papua, was forced to temporarily shut the facility last month after demonstrators blockaded it.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

03-16-06 0040ET

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