New Yorker demonstration against UN

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Subject: New Yorker demonstration against UNOCAL, U.S Oil Company

To all Burmese Democratic friends,

      Today 11/12/99, We, New Yorkers, Democratic Burmese students, and all 
American activist groups joined together in front of the Plaza Hotel at 5th 
Avenue and 59th Street corner, Manhattan, New York. Our demonstrated against 
UNOCAL U.S Oil Company's share holder meeting. We are protesting against 
UNOCAL because they doing business with Burmese military junta. Their deal 
with Burmese Military dictators will strengthen military dictatorship and 
destroy our democracy movements and our national resources and environments.

Summary
          Unocal, a California Oil corporation, is involved in a
joint-venture signed a contract with junta to extract and transport natural 
gas using a pipeline from the undersea Yadana field located off Burma's 
coast. Pipeline crosses from southern Burma to neighboring Thailand. UNOCAL 
is a 28.26% shareholder in this project.
The pipeline of the gas run for 218 miles, 41 miles cuts across southern 
Burma's Tenasserim region to Thailand. The pipeline area is the homeland of 
the Karan, Mon and Tavoyan peoples. These ethnic minorities have been under 
attack by the junta's troops which are seeking to suppress rebellion and use 
civilian for forced labor on army projects. To completely control the 
pipeline region, thousnad of people have been forcibly relocated and their 
homes and farms destroyed by the junta's troops. This project is connected
to some of Burma's worst human rights violations. The pipeline traverse 
through a variety of ecosystems including dense tropical forest, disrupting 
the habitat of rare animals such as tigers, rhinos and elephants. This 
entire region is a war zone due to the ethnic peoples need to defend 
themselves against SPDC ( Burmese Junta ) ataacks, making the region highly 
unstable. This project destroyed wetland areas and demolished a wide swath 
of forest. UNOCAL are accountable for this environmental destruction, and 
are showing disrespect to local people. Unocal and others parters{ Total of 
France with 32.24%, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand with 25.5%, and the 
Myanmar(BURMESE)Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) with 15% }  will get $400 
million annually from Thailand for the this project.


       We atarted our demo at from 1:00 Pm: to 2:30 Pm:. We chanted slogans
as follows:

            UNOCOL UNOCAL- GET OUT FROM BURMA
            UNOCAL UNOCAL- GET OUT FROM BURMA
            UNOCAL UNOCAL- GET OUT FROM BURMA

            FREE FREE FREE BURMA
            FREE FREE FREE BURMA
            FREE FREE FREE BURMA

            UNOCAL, YOUR DOLLARS ARE SUPPORTING DICTATORSHIP
            UNOCAL DESTROYS RAIN FORESTS
            UNOCAL DESTROYS PEOPLE IN BURMA
            UNOCAL WHERE ARE YOUR ETHICS?
            UNOCAL STOP THE PIPELINE PROJECT UNTIL WE GET DEMOCRACY

           And also we hand out flyers

       UNOCAL + BURMESE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP = HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE &
      ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION  Flyers from Los Angeles Burma Forum

      Imagine waking up in a country where...... from Free Burma
       Coalition

    Our protest ended in 2:30 Pm:. We are expressing to UNOCAL Oil company 
that the position against corporate investment in Burma until we restored 
democracy and human rights in Burma.

Regards,
Looking forward to Democratic Burma.


Ko Zaw Win
New York.






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