Sept. 10, 2009 -- BANGKOK (Agence France Presse) -- Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.
Oil giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with billions of dollars hidden by the regime in Singapore, while trying to whitewash rights abuses, an environment group said Thursday. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
France's Total and US-based Chevron have also tried to whitewash alleged rights abuses by Myanmar troops guarding the pipeline, including forced labour and killings, two reports by US-based EarthRights International said.
The group urged the international community to exert pressure on the two companies, which have long managed to avoid Western sanctions against the generals who rule the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
"Total and Chevron's Yadana gas project has generated 4.83 billion dollars for the Burmese regime," one of the reports said, adding that the figures for the period 2000-2008 were the first ever detailed account of the revenues.
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