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IHC Caland : What world are they li



Subject: IHC Caland : What world are they living in? 

> De Ruyter has a clear opinion about the military regime: "It belongs
> to the most critisized regimes in the world, there is no doubt about
> that. But when there are no clear national or international rules,
> what should we adhere to? A political signal  - preferable from the EU
> or the UN, we would take very serious."

WAIT A MINUTE. WHAT IS HE ASKING FOR? UN SANCTIONS. EU SANCTIONS? The
latest human rights report was to date the most condemnatory of
violations by the regime. Total Fina, IHC, and the other companies are
playing cat and mouse. No sanctions, business as usual? And so they turn
their back on all the opposition activities in the world against this
regime? And they turn their back on US sanctions? What sheer nonsense by
these spineless pirates interested in selling more equipment for the
buck. Why don't THEY speak up and put their bucks on the bottom line of
what they already have said? They are like little grade school kids who
act as though they need to be controlled by technocrats to restrict them
from what they can or cannot do. No principles. NO morality. No human
dignity. Just sell, sell sell. And if there were sanctions? Did the UN
pass sanctions against Libya, and the French still went in. So the nice
Dutch here now, say, help us, we understand, we want to help you, but
what? Cant they read the ILO? Has their directors talked to ILO
delegates about forced labor and human rights violations. Sick minds,
sick business, sick action.

WE AT EUROBURMA THANK AND ENCOURAGE THE BCN NOT TO LET GO OF THE REINS
BUT TO RIDE ON AND PUSH THEIR GOVERNMENT LEADERS TO TAKE THE INITIATIVE
AND BACK THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS THE EU RESOLUTIONS THE ILO JULY
1998 RAPPORT THE 1998 AND 1999 SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL RESOLTUIONS AND
TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO MAKE CONSCIENTIOUS DECISIONS THAT EFFECT THE FUTURE
AND LIVES OF PEOPLE AND DEMOCRACY IN BURMA.

DONT THEY KNOW THAT DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI HAS BEEN STEADY AND CONSISTENT
ON BOYCOTT SAYING THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO INVEST OR DO BUSINESS WITH
BURMA BUT TO WAIT.

IHC DOESNT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT DEMOCRACY IN BURMA BUT THEIR DIRECTORS
JUST DONT WANT TO SAY IT. 

INSTEAD OF DREGGING THEY OUGHT TO GO CLEAN OUT SOME PRISON CELLS OF 
POLITICAL PRISONERS.

HAVE THEY TALKED TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IN HOLLAND? WHAT DOES AMNESTY
HAVE TO SAY. TOTAL FINA LIKES AMNESTY IN FRANCE. THEY SAID SO IN THE
FRENCH PARLIMENTARY INFORMATION RAPPORT INQUIRY ON THE FRENCH TOTAL FINA
ELF COMPANY WORLD ACTIVITY. 

DOES AMNESTY GIVE THEM ANY GUIDELINES? I AM SURPRISED NOT TO SEE A WORD
ABOUT THE CONTACTS WITH AMNESTY AND IHC. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHATS GOING
ON. 

THANK YOU BCN
EUROBURMANET  PARIS




BCN wrote:
> 
> Taken from the Dutch central news network ANP (General Dutch Newsagency)
> Translated and commented by BCN.
> 
> December 7th, 1999
> ANP Fin
> Keywords; company IHC; IHC, Burma
> 
> IHC Caland wants political guidelines for disputed delivery
> 
> SCHIEDAM (ANP) - IHC Caland expects politics to define rules for deliveries
> to countries that violate human rights. (IHC ceo De Ruyter, BCN) made
> this remark in reaction to questions raised by parliament member
> Koenders (Pvda) (Labour, BCN) about the sale by IHC of a cutter
> suction dredger to the military junta of Myanmar, the former Burma.
> President-director C. de Ruyter of IHC Caland says that within the
> board of his company never before has a delivery been "discussed and
> pondered over" so long as this one. "Moreover it is a very small
> delivery of several million guilders compared to others (2 million us,
> BCN). This delivery isbeing paid for in cash and cannot possibly be
> used for human rights violations."
> De Ruyter has a clear opinion about the military regime: "It belongs
> to the most critisized regimes in the world, there is no doubt about
> that. But when there are no clear national or international rules,
> what should we adhere to? A political signal  - preferable from the EU
> or the UN, we would take very serious." The cutter suction dredger is
> being delivered by IHC Holland, a daughter company of IHC in
> Schiedam. Member of parliament Koenders wants to know from minister
> Van Aartsen (Foreign Affairs) and underminister Ybema (Economic
> Affairs) in how far the sale to Myanmar is in conflict with
> (inter)national rules. Moreover, he wants to know if there are
> possibilities to act against IHC for its sale to the junta, For years,
> humanrights groups have been saying the regime tortures and executes
> people.