European lawmakers, human rights organizations and lawyers reacted with outrage to POLITICO’s investigation into the massacre of civilians at a gas plant in Mozambique owned by TotalEnergies.
The report, published Thursday, details the abduction, rape and killing of civilians by a Mozambican military unit operating out of the gatehouse of the French energy giant’s gas plant in the summer of 2021.
The soldiers accused villagers who had fled their homes of being members of an Islamist insurgency, cramming them into shipping containers and subjecting them to beatings and starvation. Of those captured, only a small portion survived.
The French energy giant had contracted a Mozambican security unit to defend the plant despite warnings that some soldiers had allegedly carried out human rights abuses.
