What happened to the miners and laborers during the attack at Hell's gate?

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Human No More

If they attacked, they aren't innocent. The only people who were were the ones who remained at Hell's Gate, who got put on the shuttle and kicked off Pandora.

We know that the Avatar Drivers and the Scientists rebelled but it makes no sense that Quartich could have suspended all mining operations in Pandora to wage his little stupid war. I say miners and Laborers because I'm sure they had also janitors and even a few cooks (Probably a dying art on Earth as there is virtually nothing more to cook there). And I'd not be so fast in saying they are not innocent or otherwise specially if they had been told their lives depended on it. Still why didn't the scientists tried to get at least some of the miners on their side or showed the evidence of what RDA was really about.