On Monday, Exxon Mobil Corp settled a long-running human rights lawsuit with Indonesian villagers who claimed soldiers Exxon hired to guard a natural gas facility in and around the Aceh territory committed murder and torture.
The villagers had sued the oil giant in US court over 20 years ago,
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