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    A platform to for for discussions on waste trade, corporate responsibility and ways to legally challenge human rights abuse by big corporations in the west.…

  • The case

    796 Chilean citizens who were injured by the wetland sludge from Rönnskärsverken containing high levels of arsenic that Boliden shipped over to the Polygono area in Arica, Chile, during 1984-1985.…

  • The film

    Filmmakers William Johansson Kalen and Lars Edman have covered the case since their first film Boliden (2010). In their following film Arica (2020) we get an insight look inside the powerful case brought upon the mining company responsible.…

Background

It all started many years ago. Without even anyone noticing. Then things happened. No one knows why, but it did. it was kinda cool. Then a big flowing glowing iron ball smashed into earth and thats how iron came to earth. After that, a small danish company became an even smaller swedish company. Every person who went into that company started his or hers own company. One of those people was the director of this film.

The film

Filmmakers William Johansson Kalen and Lars Edman have covered the case since their first film Boliden (2010). In their following film Arica (2020) we get an insight look inside the powerful case brought upon the mining company responsible.Filmmakers William Johansson Kalen and Lars Edman have covered the case since their first film Boliden (2010). In their following film Arica (2020) we get an insight look inside the powerful case brought upon the mining company responsible.Filmmakers William Johansson Kalen and Lars Edman have covered the case since their first film Boliden (2010). In their following film Arica (2020) we get an insight look inside the powerful case brought upon the mining company responsible.

Filmmakers William Johansson Kalen and Lars Edman have covered the case since their first film Boliden (2010). In their following film Arica (2020) we get an insight look inside the powerful case brought upon the mining company responsible.

The case

Arica Victims v Boliden is a lawsuit in which the limited partnership Arica Victims represents 796 Chilean citizens who were injured by the wetland sludge from Rönnskärsverken containing high levels of arsenic that Boliden shipped over to the Polygono area in Arica, Chile, during 1984-1985. A conviction means that the plaintiffs receive damages of SEK 100,000 each. [1] Boliden won the case in both the District Court and the Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court has chosen not to take up the case. Arica Victims shall thus pay SEK 3,702,609 (plus interest in accordance with Section 6 of the Swedish Interest Act from the date of the Court of Appeal’s judgment until payment is made) [2] in court costs for Boliden.

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