Burmese sue US oil company

[The_Bearded_Liberal]

Twelve Burmese taking legal action in California claim that their country's military government used forced labour and its soldiers employed murder and rape to clear the way for a foreign-funded gas pipeline.

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The 12 are suing the Los Angeles company Unocal for damages on the grounds that it benefited from the Burmese activity even if it did not endorse it.

More...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,13373,1007257,00.html

[AnnabelLee]

1. Background on this story

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Oil_watch/Unocal_MakingKillingBurma.html

[lfairban]

2. Also involved in the Afghan pipeline with the Taliban.

More links on Unocal:
http://home.columbus.rr.com/lfairban/Pages/Corporate.htm#Unocal

[Trajan]

3. This is an ANCIENT story, isnt it ? ......

They HAVENT resolved this issue yet ? .....

Wasnt Cheney also involved through Halliburton ? ....

[lfairban]

4. The story, yes, but the suit is new.

This might give more details on Halliburton in Burma:
http://www.earthrights.org/halliburton/report.pdf

More on Halliburton in Burma:
http://home.columbus.rr.com/lfairban/Pages/Corporate.htm#Burma

Here is something else:
The Administration filed its brief before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Doe v. Unocal, a lawsuit brought by Burmese citizens, which alleged that the US energy company Unocal had aided and abetted the Burmese military junta's use of forced labor and other human rights abuses during the construction of a gas pipeline. The Clinton Administration vociferously condemned the junta's human rights abuses, which in recent days has led to the brutal arrest of Burma's rightful leader, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Aung San Suu Kyi, and the killing and imprisonment of many of her supporters.

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=2121