Top firms accused over Burma
Tuesday 3rd June 2008, 7:36AM BST.
Fifty top companies have been accused of helping finance Burma’s military dictatorship.
The Burma Campaign UK published its Dirty List today aimed at exposing those companies that directly or indirectly support Burma’s ruling junta.
The 50 new companies named include, BBC Worldwide, Toyota, Qantas, TOTAL Oil and Daewoo.
In total, 154 companies are named on the list.
“In an age where companies like to claim they behave ethically, this list exposes those corporations for whom corporate responsibility is just a hollow public relations exercise,” said Johnny Chatterton, campaigns officer of the Burma Campaign UK.
“If you are serious about ethics, you don’t fund dictatorships that rape five year old girls, shoot at peaceful protestors and leave storm victims to die.”
The campaign group claims that 30 companies on the list are from the tourism sector and 33 are in the oil and gas sector.
Since the list was first published six years ago, over 100 companies have withdrawn from Burma, the group also declared.
Burma is still recovering from the devastating Cyclone Nargis which struck last month, killing 134,000 people and leaving 2.5 million displaced.
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