Burma: Campaigners Around The World Call To Postpone Destructive Chinese Pipelines In Burma

Burma: Campaigners Around The World Call To Postpone Destructive Chinese Pipelines In Burma   130 organizations over 20 countries today held demonstrations and submitted letters calling on Burma’s President Thein Sein to postpone China’s trans-Burma oil and gas pipelines project. The letter expressed serious concerns over human rights abuses as well as social, economic and environmental impacts of the Burmese, Chinese, Korean, and Indian company-led project.   The Shwe Gas Project and...

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