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by Mike Caswell

Nevsun Resources Ltd. is facing another lawsuit in the Supreme Court of British Columbia from an Eritrean national who claims that he was employed as forced labour at the company's Bisha mine. The man, Abadi Alemayo, says that he went to work for a Bisha subcontractor voluntarily at first, but then was not allowed to leave. He claims that he was one of over 1,000 Eritreans who unwillingly built the mine.

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The lawsuit from Mr. Alemayo comes just weeks after a judge allowed a similar case against Nevsun to go ahead. That case is from three Eritreans who claimed that they worked at Bisha after the country conscripted them into a mandatory military service program. They said that they worked in inhumane conditions and that Nevsun profited from it. The company had sought to have that matter dismissed on jurisdictional grounds, saying Eritrea was the more appropriate venue. Witnesses in the case, numbering in the hundreds or more, lived in Eritrea and would not speak English, the company said. The judge, however, ruled against Nevsun, finding that the three men would not receive a fair trial in Eritrea.

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