ExxonMobil must face Indonesian villagers' lawsuit: US judgeExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), a multi-national American corporation and a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company[2] must face a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. filed by Indonesian villagers alleging that the US oil giant is liable for killings and torture torture, the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering in order to intimidate, coerce, obtain information or a confession, or punish. committed by military security forces, a federal judge said Wednesday. "Plaintiffs have provided sufficient evidence, at this stage, for their allegations of serious abuse," said US Judge Louis Oberdorfer in Washington. Eleven Indonesian villagers have accused Exxon Mobil Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation U.S.-based oil and gas company formed in 1999 through the merger of Exxon Corp. and Mobil Corp. It has investments and operations in petroleum and natural gas, coal, nuclear fuels, chemicals, and ores. and two of its US affiliates, Mobil Corp. and ExxonMobil Oil Corp., and its Indonesian subsidiary, ExxonMobil Oil Indonesia (EMOI) of "killings and torture committed by military security forces protecting and paid for by EMOI," the judge said in a court document. Oberdorfer denied Exxon Mobil Corp.'s and EMOI's request to throw out the lawsuit. However, he dismissed the suit for the group's two US affiliates, Mobil Corp. and ExxonMobil Oil Corp., saying there was "insufficient" evidence against them. The lawsuit was filed in June 2001 by the 11 villagers, using pseudonyms This article gives a list of pseudonyms, in various categories. Pseudonyms are similar to, but distinct from, secret identities. Artists, sculptors, architects
The alleged atrocities took place in Aceh, near ExxonMobil's natural gas Arun Project, in the early 2000s. 
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