Peaceful Burma (ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းျမန္မာ)平和なビルマ

Peaceful Burma (ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းျမန္မာ)平和なビルマ

TO PEOPLE OF JAPAN



JAPAN YOU ARE NOT ALONE



GANBARE JAPAN



WE ARE WITH YOU



ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေျပာတဲ့ညီညြတ္ေရး


“ညီၫြတ္ေရးဆုိတာ ဘာလဲ နားလည္ဖုိ႔လုိတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ကာ ဒီအပုိဒ္ ဒီ၀ါက်မွာ ညီၫြတ္ေရးဆုိတဲ့အေၾကာင္းကုိ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ျပ ထားတယ္။ တူညီေသာအက်ဳိး၊ တူညီေသာအလုပ္၊ တူညီေသာ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိရမယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ညီၫြတ္ေရးဆုိတာ ဘာအတြက္ ညီၫြတ္ရမွာလဲ။ ဘယ္လုိရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ညီၫြတ္ရမွာလဲ။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ဆုိတာ ရွိရမယ္။

“မတရားမႈတခုမွာ သင္ဟာ ၾကားေနတယ္ဆုိရင္… သင္ဟာ ဖိႏွိပ္သူဘက္က လုိက္ဖုိ႔ ေရြးခ်ယ္လုိက္တာနဲ႔ အတူတူဘဲ”

“If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen to side with the oppressor.”
ေတာင္အာဖရိကက ႏိုဘယ္လ္ဆုရွင္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ၾကီး ဒက္စ္မြန္တူးတူး

THANK YOU MR. SECRETARY GENERAL

Ban’s visit may not have achieved any visible outcome, but the people of Burma will remember what he promised: "I have come to show the unequivocal shared commitment of the United Nations to the people of Myanmar. I am here today to say: Myanmar – you are not alone."

QUOTES BY UN SECRETARY GENERAL

Without participation of Aung San Suu Kyi, without her being able to campaign freely, and without her NLD party [being able] to establish party offices all throughout the provinces, this [2010] election may not be regarded as credible and legitimate. ­
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Where there's political will, there is a way

政治的な意思がある一方、方法がある
စစ္မွန္တဲ့ခိုင္မာတဲ့နိုင္ငံေရးခံယူခ်က္ရိွရင္ႀကိဳးစားမႈရိွရင္ နိုင္ငံေရးအေျဖ
ထြက္ရပ္လမ္းဟာေသခ်ာေပါက္ရိွတယ္
Burmese Translation-Phone Hlaing-fwubc

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Chinese oil firm accused of abuses, contamination in Myanmar

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/237895,chinese-oil-firm-accused-of-abuses-contamination-in-myanmar.html


Posted : Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:09:27 GMT
Author : DPA
Bangkok - A Chinese-led consortium with a concession for oil exploration on Myanmar's Ramree Island has left hundreds of local islanders landless and unemployed and their environment befouled, a human rights group said Tuesday. Blocking Freedom, a report compiled by the environmental and human rights group Arakan Oil Watch, said a consortium led by the China National Offshore Oil Company Ltd (CNOOC Ltd) left behind such a trail of abuses and environmental contamination on Ramree Island that outraged locals attacked their facilities last year.

The report was the first to be released on Chinese onshore oil exploration activities in Ramree Island, Myanmar's largest island, in Arakan State, now called Rakhine.

The consortium, which included the Singapore-based Golden Aaron Pte Ltd, Myanmar's Asia World Company and Asia Guiding Star and two other state-owned Chinese oil-service companies, conducted onshore exploration for oil on Ramree Island between 2006-07.

The consortium reportedly confiscated 81 hectares, and offered the local owners 40,000 kyat (31 dollars) for their land regardless of the size of their plots, said Jockai Khaing, director of Arakan Oil Watch.

"An estimated 500 to 1,000 local oil drillers were put out business," said Jockai.



He said angry local residents attacked the CNOOC drilling site in Renandaung village in August 2007, and looted drilling equipment and supplies.

Police arrested two shop owners who purchased some of the stolen loot, and the investigation into the incident has forced 70 islanders to flee to Thailand and Malaysia, the report said.

Ramree is known to be rich in oil reserves, employing about 5,000 primitive drillers who have traditionally used the commodity to supplement their incomes from rice farming and fishing.

Hundreds of drillers have been put out of work by the consortium's activities in Renandaung and Kyaukphyu districts, according to Arakan Oil Watch.

"The consortium brought in 200 Chinese workers and 3,000 Burmese but only employed three Arakanese, and these were employed only because some Burmese workers ran away," said Jockai.

Besides depriving local residents of work and their lands, the CNOOC consortium has also polluted rice fields and rivers on the island, notching up a litany of abuses that could make a "worst practices" list for multinational corporations, the report said.

"Corporations and their supporting governments engaged in the oil and gas sector in Burma must ensure they follow international standards on local people's rights, and ensure environmental and revenue transparency," Jockai told a press conference in Bangkok.

The report on Ramree is even more disturbing given the predominance of Chinese oil firms in Myanmar's oil and gas industry.

Chinese firms currently have 16 oil and gas blocks in Myanmar and are now ranked as the largest investors in the sector.

US and European oil firms have in recent years been prevented from investing in Myanmar's petroleum sector by economic sanctions on the pariah regime, although France's Total and the US's Chevron still hold concessions won before the sanctions were imposed.

Myanmar earned an estimated 2.7 billion dollars in gas exports to Thailand last year, primarily from gas reserves partially operated by Total and Chevron. Natural gas accounts for almost 45 per cent of the country's export revenues.

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