TOTAL Oil: fuelling the oppression in Burma | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
janvier 2005
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eldis:A16932

Coinciding with the launch of a new international campaign calling for TOTAL’s withdrawal from Burma, this report gathers together much of the available evidence relating to TOTAL’s role in fuelling the oppressive dictatorship in Burma. It explores human rights abuses associated with TOTAL’s gas pipeline, TOTAL’s financing of Burma’s dictatorship and TOTAL’s influence on French foreign policy and therefore on European Burma policy as a whole.The report finds that:one of the most significant consequence of TOTAL’s presence in Burma is its influence on French foreign policy: in order to protect TOTAL’s interests, the French government has become an obstacle to any strengthening of the EU’s Common Position on Burma, particular with regard to economic sanctionsTOTAL’s project provides significant annual revenue to the regime, which has helped the regime to build its military capacity and therefore its control of the country’s population, impeding the prospect of democratic changedespite being aware of the possible dangers, the TOTAL opted to employ, through MOGE (Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise), the services of the Burmese Army which is internationally renowned for its extreme and unrelenting brutalitythere are serious allegations that TOTAL’s money has been used by the regime to cover its money laundering activities through MOGE in order to purchase armsthe ‘constructive engagement’ that TOTAL claims to have been carrying out in Burma over the last decade has not resulted in a single democratic reform by the regime.The report highlights that TOTAL withdrawal from Burma would end the company’s support for the regime, deter future foreign investment in Burma and open the way to a French foreign policy that no longer undermines Burma’s pro-democracy movement. The report recommends that civil society organisations concerned with making corporations accountable for their actions join the international coalition on TOTAL.

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