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Total, the globalized French oil company, is a leading multinational energy company with operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fourth largest publicly-traded oil and gas integrated company in the world. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading. Total is also a large-scale chemicals manufacturer. The current Chief Executive Officer of Total Oil is Thierry Desmarest. Total are responsible for the rape and murder of Burmese people by supplying th milaterry Junta with millions of dollars and employing Burmese soldiers (who commit the worlds worst human right abuses) to guard their pipeline. A publicly traded corporation often refers to a company whose shares are traded on the open market, such as a stock market. ...
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Chief executive of Total Oil-responsible for the rape and murder of people across Burma where Total fund the barbaric milaterry junta and employ their soldiers to guard their pipeline. ...
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Current Issues Although Total does maintain a socially responsible investment program, there has been recent controversy over its corporate involvement in Burma (also known as Myanmar) despite recent European Union sanctions on new investment in the country due to its poor human rights record. Democratic activists have accused Total of propping up that country's brutal military junta. Sanctions is the plural of sanction (see also penalty). ...
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These activist groups, which include Europe's largest Burma lobbying group, Burma Campaign UK, point out that Total is currently involved in a joint venture with the military regime developing an offshore gas field in the Andaman Sea. The gas is exported to Thailand through a pipeline that travels 65 kilometres through Burma. Total is one of the biggest foreign investors in Burma. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...
The Burma Campaign UK is an organization dedicated to the promotion of human rights and democracy in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). ...
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Total has been taken to court by six Burmese people who were used as forced labour in the preparation of Total’s pipeline in Burma. Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for forms of work, especially in modern or early modern history, in which adults and/or children are employed without wages, or for a minimal wage. ...
At a recent meeting of the company's small shareholders in France, activist groups called for Total to cease its operations inside Burma, but the company has refused to budge on the issue, despite urging from activists and independent financial advisors. A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company (including a corporation), that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a joint stock company. ...
Among the allegations against the Burmese government, or SPDC, are the widespread use of forced labor, systematic rape as a weapon of war, forced relocation of ethnic minorities such as the Karen, Shan, and many others, and frequent use of torture and summary executions against political prisoners and dissidents. The regime benefits from Total's investment and thus, Total's involvement in Burma is a major factor propping up the regime and perpetuating its brutal and illegitimate rule. In sociology and in voting theory, a minority is a sub-group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it. ...
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Recently the junta has taken to using chemical weapons in order to achieve their goal of destroying the Karen people. Everytime the EU attempt to place trade sanctions on Burma the French government block the move as they make so much money from Total.
External Links Burma Campaign UK's Total Oil campaign (http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/total.php)
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