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Total Oil, by investing in Burma, is helping to prop up a regime charged by the United Nations with a "crime against humanity". Make your voice heard and tell Total to stop supporting Burma.
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In the last few weeks, tens of thousands of Burmese people have taken to the streets to protest against their brutal military government. The dictatorship has begun a violent crackdown — in 1988 they massacred thousands of civilians. The Burmese people urgently need our solidarity. If the world stands up and supports their struggle, this time they could win.
Ten years ago, People & Planet successfully led a global campaign to stop Pepsi operating in Burma.
People & Planet are now targeting Total Oil — one of the Burmese regime’s key foreign investors. Total, by investing in Burma, is helping to prop up a regime charged by the United Nations with a “crime against humanity” for its systematic abuses of human rights, and internationally condemned for refusing to transfer power to the legally elected government of the country.
According to the BBC, Total “… is a major investor in Burma through its gas pipeline project in Yadana, which is a joint venture with the junta. Total has been embroiled in a series of court cases over forced labour and other human rights abuses.”
Learn more by reading the Burma Campaign’s Total briefing
Or visit the Burma blogspot
Take action now!
Personalise the suggested text and send your message by email, fax or post.
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I am writing about your company’s involvement in Burma. For many years Total Oil has worked with Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. By working so closely with the dictatorship, Total is supporting a regime that imprisons and tortures political opponents, uses forced labour and uses rape as a weapon of war in its persecution of ethnic minorities. By its engagement in Burma, Total is actively supporting the suppression of democracy and bringing disrepute on itself.
It is not too late to change. I urge Total to stop supporting Burma’s military dictatorship and its long term and systematic violations of human rights.
Burma’s legally elected government and other democratic leaders have asked companies not to invest in Burma. Please support the Burmese people, rather than helping the junta which continues to exploit and oppress them. Please end Total’s business partnership with Burma’s military dictatorship and pull out of Burma now.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
Write
Jean-François Lassalle,
Vice-President Public Affairs,
Total Exploration & Production,
c/o Total UK 33 Cavendish Square,
London.
W1G 0PW
Call or Fax
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7416 4200
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7416 4497
holding.myanmar-contact-internet@total.com sylvie.arlabosse@total.com valerie.alexandre@total.com nadia.chambery@total.com francoise.de-l-homme@total.com
If you receive a response, please email us to tell us what they say.
Remember faxes and snail mail are more effective than email.
What else can I do?
Contact other companies that still operate in Burma
The Burma campaign has a ‘dirty list’ of companies still directly and indirectly supporting the junta.
There is a Facebook group with a full email list — start your own mass email campaign.
Ask friends and family to help by getting them to
- Sign the Avaaz petition
- Join the Facebook group
For up and coming protests and events visit face book
More information on Facebook
