Protest Against Regime's Business Cronies

Pro-democracy activists in Europe, especially Burma Campaign UK, have been asking International Business Corporations not to do business with SPDC military regime in Burma.

Latest Good News: The Burma Campaign UK has been informed by DHL’s parent company, Deutsche Post, that DHL will end its joint venture with Burma ’s military dictatorship. DHL’s current contract with the regime expires at the end of 2006, and the Burma Campaign UK had called on the company to use this opportunity to cut its ties with the regime. ‘This is a welcome but long overdue move by DHL’, said Yvette Mahon, Director of the Burma Campaign UK . ‘DHL have finally realised that it is not acceptable to have a military dictatorship as your business partner, especially one that is currently slaughtering its own population in a new military offensive against civilians.’

Among such Business Corporations, big oil-and-gas companies like TOTAL and DAEWOO are the worst.

Their business dealing with SPDC regime give financial support to the corrupt despotic military regime. And their gas pipe-lines damage environment in Burma. And such pipelines destroy the livelihood of villagers in the local area whose villages were destroyed to give way for building pipelines. Moreover, these poor villagers were used by military regime as forced labourers in gas pipeline construction projects.

On May 12, activists in London led by Burma Campaign UK, held a demonstration in front of TOTAL company office to protest its business dealings with SPDC military regime.

The following pictures show protestors in black body-bags hightlighting SPDC military regime's genocide policy on ethnic nationalities in Burma.

 (Photos: courtesy of Mark Farmaner & Khin Saw)