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Burma Top French WTO News (Le Monde



Subject: Re: Burma Top French WTO News (Le Monde); Total and Unocal slammed in French press

Dawn Star wrote:
> 
> Burma figures front center in a major coverage of the WTO fiasco, in a
> story on Robert Benson and citing Barbara Hadsell, of the LA law firm
> targetting Unocal and Total. Total is equally cited for the Yadana
> pipeline deal "in partnership with Moge, resorting to forced labor,
> arbitrary explusions of villages accompanied by torture and executions".
> 
> Once again but here its rather important that the French socialist paper
> is bringing home to the french readers that Burma investment days are
> numbered.
> 
> "'Burma has been condemned by the United Nations for human rights
> violatoins, by the OIT for exploitation by forced labor', says Robert
> Benson. Unocal cannot ignore it..."
> 
> It is typically french,however, how they report just enough to show they
> are aware, and then not much after that.
> 
> But this is a good thing. The news on Burma from Seattle hit the french
> press square center, slamming Total and Unocal.
> 
> The title of the story is
> "Ce 'Tribunal du peuple' qui entend juger les multinaitonales comme le
> general Pinochet".
> 
> Too bad for the killer junta in Burma. Their days are sooner or later
> over. They ought to pack up and go while they still have a chance.
> 
> dawn star