Kaladan News
Dated:
Three Nations Sit Jan 12-13 to Talk Gas Pipeline:
Arakan People would be Aware about Gas pipeline.
Chittagong, December, 20: The Energy ministers of Bangladesh, India and Burma
will meet in Burma on January 12 and 13 to discuss regional energy cooperation,
including the possibility of implementing a transnational gas pipeline,
reported by the “The Daily Star” yesterday.
The possibility of implementing a transnational
gas pipeline will also be discussed during the January 9-11 SAARC summit in
“We know that during the
construction of the Yadana pipeline, the local
villagers accompanied by their family members had suffered a variety of serious
abuses, including forced relocation, forced labor, rape, torture, and murder at
the hands of SPDC military that were securing the route of the Yadana pipeline project managed by Unocal, France’s Total,
and the Burmese State oil company,” said U Maung Naing
from Ranong township, the southern part of Burma, who
recently visited the Bangladesh.
If the implementing of a
transnational gas pipeline is okay, in the same way, people of Arakan will be suffered a variety of harsh abuses such as
forced relocation, forced labor, rape, torture, and murder by SPDC military who
were securing the route of the Arakan gas pipeline
project supervised by the companies of India and Korea, Maung Naing further added.
The money of sale of natural gas
to
A ground-breaking settlement
thought to be worth millions of dollars has been reached in the long-running
human rights case brought by Burmese villagers against the energy giant Unocal,
it emerged on 14th December 2004, reported by the “The Guardian”.
Getting lessons from the Unocal,
Daewoo (Korea) and Indian companies, who are planning an Arakan
pipeline, must shower more to the people along the pipeline to buy their
support such as more clinics, schools, roads, chickens in exchange for the
Burmese people accepting that they have no input into how their sources are
used or whose land will be confiscated and that the military junta will be
getting much much richer, said a intellectual to Kaladan Press.
As a result, Arakan
people would be aware about the Arakan gas pipeline
and have to campaign strongly against the SPDC not to sell natural gas to
For more information, please contact at:
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.kaladanpress.org
Website: www.kaladanpress.com