Free Burma
20th April 2006, 11:08
Hey,
Haven't posted here before and was hoping some of you guys can help:
Total Oil are the largest foreign investor in Burma. Total are responsible for:
Funding one of the worst regimes in the world-providing them with $750 million per year while they use rape as a weapon, torture political prisoners and carry out ethnic genocide
Using slave labour and their pipeline (Total recently came to an out-of-court settlement with 6 villages who had Total in court for using them as slaves)
Employing Burmese soldiers (including child soldiers) to guard their pipeline and not investigating or presing for an investigation the abuses comitted by the soldiers in the area-including the rape last year of a 14 year old by 16 soldiers guarding the pipeline
Providing the French government with millions of dollars a year in response for France vetoing all EU resolutions against Burma
We have recently launched a website against Total located here-http://totalitarian-oil.blogspot.com/ (http://totalitarian-oil.blogspot.com/)
It details Total's abuses and suggests action against Total as well as providing links to the Burma Campaign and Burmese Free press sites. Over the coming months we will also feature reports on the human rights abuses in Burma and hopefully expand to other multinationals abusing human rights (Shell and Coke currently in the firing line....so if anyone fancies writing a bit on one of these we'll be more than happy to publish you!)
We desperatly need the publicity and interest so please take a look send on this link to anybody who you think might be interested and post it up on any blogs/forums you can-this is the kind of action that got BAT and Lauda Air out of Burma (neither of whom have been replaced because of public opposition) and we hope we can do the same with Total-the last major foreign investor. Total is all the more seirous as once Total leave France will have no reason to veto resolution against Burma in the EU or when it reaches the UNSC.
Thanks for your time,
Liam
This link (http://www.freeburmarangers.org/Images/june02Massacre2.jpg) is not safe for work-it shows Karen villages massacred in the genocide currently being carried out by the Burmese army and funded by Total. The first payment the regime recieved from Total was used to buy military planes which were used within weeks in attacks on such Karen villages.
Haven't posted here before and was hoping some of you guys can help:
Total Oil are the largest foreign investor in Burma. Total are responsible for:
Funding one of the worst regimes in the world-providing them with $750 million per year while they use rape as a weapon, torture political prisoners and carry out ethnic genocide
Using slave labour and their pipeline (Total recently came to an out-of-court settlement with 6 villages who had Total in court for using them as slaves)
Employing Burmese soldiers (including child soldiers) to guard their pipeline and not investigating or presing for an investigation the abuses comitted by the soldiers in the area-including the rape last year of a 14 year old by 16 soldiers guarding the pipeline
Providing the French government with millions of dollars a year in response for France vetoing all EU resolutions against Burma
We have recently launched a website against Total located here-http://totalitarian-oil.blogspot.com/ (http://totalitarian-oil.blogspot.com/)
It details Total's abuses and suggests action against Total as well as providing links to the Burma Campaign and Burmese Free press sites. Over the coming months we will also feature reports on the human rights abuses in Burma and hopefully expand to other multinationals abusing human rights (Shell and Coke currently in the firing line....so if anyone fancies writing a bit on one of these we'll be more than happy to publish you!)
We desperatly need the publicity and interest so please take a look send on this link to anybody who you think might be interested and post it up on any blogs/forums you can-this is the kind of action that got BAT and Lauda Air out of Burma (neither of whom have been replaced because of public opposition) and we hope we can do the same with Total-the last major foreign investor. Total is all the more seirous as once Total leave France will have no reason to veto resolution against Burma in the EU or when it reaches the UNSC.
Thanks for your time,
Liam
This link (http://www.freeburmarangers.org/Images/june02Massacre2.jpg) is not safe for work-it shows Karen villages massacred in the genocide currently being carried out by the Burmese army and funded by Total. The first payment the regime recieved from Total was used to buy military planes which were used within weeks in attacks on such Karen villages.