Follow the Money
May 5, 2010 by blogadmin
Filed under About Burma In Crisis
Burmese generals and International corporations are working together to make billions of dollars on the backs of innocent people.
Why? Ancient hill tribes or “ethnic groups” are sitting right on top of the richest deposits of natural resources in Southeast Asia. The place is a treasure chest of oil, natural gas, precious metals, gems, uranium, other minerals and hydro power potential.
See the recent report, Energy Insecurity, concerning international oil companies in Burma at this link:
http://www.earthrights.org/publications
Image source: Free Burma Rangers
As testament to this, over 3500 farming villages have been burned to the ground and strewn with landmines, over 440,000 internally displaced persons are presently driven from their homes, and over 800,000 villagers daily are worked as forced or slave laborers for the generals to make incredible profits. International corporations know what is going on here and have been taken to court over this. They insist that what the dictator and his generals do to the people is not the corporations’ responsibility. These corporations continue to profit. And so the people perish.’
See www.freeburmarangers.org for up to date reports on what is happening to villagers today inside Eastern Burma.
Bottom line: There is money to be made here and the lives of primitive farmers is not going to stand in the way of profiteers.
