BurmaNet News, June 25, 2004

[Editor]

June 25, 2004, Issue # 2504

INSIDE BURMA
Irrawaddy: Elected MP Pressed to Resign from NLD
Free Burma Rangers: Current Situation of the 5,000 displaced Karen and
Karenni

ON THE BORDER
Reuters: The Shan in Thailand: A Case of Protection and Assistance Failure

DRUGS
Agence France Presse: Nine Chinese drug traffickers handed over by Myanmar

REGIONAL
Japan Economic Newswire: U.N. expert on human trafficking slams Japan's
immigration controls
Associated Press: Increasing drug addiction threats spreading AIDS in
Bangladesh

OPINION/ OTHER
The Hindu: India’s Refugee Law and Policy
Irrawaddy: The Opposition’s Generation Gap
US Senate Floor Statement: McConnell

ANOUNCEMENT
Burma Campaign UK: New Burma ‘Dirty List’ Published August 24



INSIDE BURMA

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June 25, Irrawaddy
Elected MP Pressed to Resign from NLD - Nandar Chann

A National League for Democracy, or NLD, member who was elected an MP for
Lashio, the capital of Northern Shan State, in the 1990 election was
pressed by authorities to resign from the party in early June, according
to local sources.

The elected MP, Than Htay was encouraged to quit the NLD by Lashio police
commander Police-Colonel Win Naing on June 3 when he called him into his
office and told him that the party will soon be declared an illegal
organization.

Than Htay was reportedly threatened-told that he might be arrested and
charged at any time for offenses related to his business. He runs a
grocery store and a tea shop.

NLD secretary U Lwin, who spoke by telephone from Rangoon, confirmed that
he had heard about the matter.

U Lwin also told The Irrawaddy that Than Htay was advised by a family
friend to stand firm with the NLD and not to resign under any
circumstances.

On June 10 he was again called in to see Pol-Col Win Naing, who said that
he did not now need to resign from the party. The Lashio police commander
then offered to become Than Htay's business partner.

Vice chairman of the Lashio branch of the Shan Nationalities League for
Democracy, or SNLD, and an elected member of parliament, Sai Tun Aung, was
intimidated by local staffers of the Office of the Chief of Military
Intelligence, or OCMI, into resigning from his party on May 29.

However, a state-owned newspaper, the New Light of Myanmar, on June 6 ran
an article which said that Sai Tun Aung left his post on May 29 because:
"He felt that it was terribly wrong for the [SNLD] not to attend the
National Convention because of the influence of the National League for
Democracy."

The NLD and several ethnic-based parties boycotted the National Convention
charged with drafting a new constitution because the regime refused to
allow the amending of articles in its constitutional blueprint that
guarantee the military a major role in any future government.

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June 25, Free Burma Rangers
Current Situation of the 5,000 displaced Karen and Karenni

In the Burma Army January 2004 offensive, 5,000 Karenni and Karen people
were displaced along the Karen and Karenni border. 2,000 Karenni people
were displaced from 20 villages in this area. They were first ordered to
move by Burma Army LIB 249. They were to move to relocation sites
(including Mandaline, Mawchi, Bwa Doh," 8-mile" village, and Ko Sa Kee) on
the Mawchi road. The villagers did not comply. They said that they were
afraid to move near the road because many of them had been used as forced
labor to build the road. They were afraid of forced labor and beatings by
the Burma Army. Also they would not be able to farm their land and harvest
their crops if they relocated. On January 23, the Burma Army 55th division
enforced the earlier relocation order. On 26 and 29 January the 55th
Division sent 10 battalions to attack the villages, resulting in over
2,000 Karenni displaced. 1,000 people fled to Toungoo district in the
Karen State, while 1,000 fled into Papun district (Muthraw) of Karen
State. The Burma Army
chased the Karenni villages into Karen State and then attacked Karen
villages causing over 3,000 Karen to flee. This made for a total of 5,000
people displaced by this offensive, (2,000 Karenni, 3,000 Karen).

The Burma Army offensive ended in late January 2004 and by early June 2004
most of the displaced Karen and Karenni villagers had returned home. Of
the 2,000 Karenni IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), approximately
350-400 Karenni people are still in the Karen State. In the Karenni State,
some of the displaced have returned but can not live in their villages.
They live in hiding nearby so that they are close enough to tend their
fields but are still relatively safe from attack. 600-700 people went to
relocation sites during the offensive but have now been allowed to return
to their villages because they had no food in the relocation sites. Most
can live in their old villages, but some stay only near their fields.

During the January offensive, the IDPs received some emergency relief from
FBR teams and once the offensive ended rice from the KSWC (Karenni Social
Welfare Committee), was delivered to the IDPs. The rice was sufficient
fort he months of April and May and in June, local villagers and the
Karenni resistance provided rice. There is a need for more rice in July
for the Karenni IDPs who remain in Karen State (approximately 350-400 in
Papun District (Muthraw), Karen State and 30-40 in Toungoo District, Karen
State).They do not have food for next month. It is too late for them, even
if they were able to return to their villages, to have any harvest during
2004.  In May plastic sheeting for shelter for these IDPs was sent from
the KSDP (Karenni Student Development Program).

The Burma Army has placed landmines extensively in the areas south of the
Mawchi Road and near the village of Paho (three miles north of the Karen
border). The Karenni resistance has removed four landmines near the
village so far. On May 10 at 11am a 30-year-old Karenni man was killed
when he stepped on a Burma Army landmine while trying to return to his
village. On 26 May 2004 at 9 am, Naw Ger Moo Paw, a 16-year-old Karenni
girl, stepped on a landmine near Htoo Ka Htoo village northwest of Mawchi.
She lost her leg and has been sent to a mobile clinic in the Karen State.



ON THE BORDER
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June 25, Reuters
The Shan in Thailand: A Case of Protection and Assistance Failure - Kavita
Shukla

The Royal Thai Government denies protection and assistance to the Shan
people of Burma, who have sought refuge in Thailand in increasing numbers
since 1996. The Shan are hardly alone; since 1988, thousands of people
from many Burmese ethnic minority groups have fled persecution and
violence directed towards them by the Burmese government. The Thai
government, which is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention Related to the
Status of Refugees, insists that Burmese must meet the very narrow
criterion of “fleeing fighting” to be eligible for refugee status. Those
considered refugees, who number approximately 128,000, consist primarily
of members of the Karen and Karenni ethnic groups and are permitted to
reside in nine border camps assisted by the Burmese Border Coalition and
other NGOs funded by the United States and other governments.

Shan state is the largest ethnic state in Burma, with a population of
approximately eight million people. Thousands of Shan have been seeking
refuge in Thailand, especially since 1996, when the Burmese army began
forcibly relocating hundreds of villages and towns, expelling about
300,000 people from their homes. People have also fled their communities
to avoid being caught in the crossfire between the Shan ethnic army, Shan
State Army (SSA), `and the Burmese army. The situation has worsened in
recent years, with the arrival of the Wa people, who have been forcibly
relocated to southern Shan state by the Burmese government from their
original homes along the border with China. At present fighting goes on
between the SSA and the Burmese army, with the latter attempting to use
the Wa to fight the Shan resistance forces. Further displacement of Shan
villagers occurs as additional land is confiscated or villages relocated
in Shan state by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the junta
that rules Burma.

The Royal Thai Government has prevented the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from accessing the Shan population in
Thailand. The Thais consider the Shan to be their ethnic cousins, and
believe that their similarities with the Thai should allow them to survive
in Thailand without access to any formal protection and assistance
programs.

Reports suggest that large numbers of internally displaced people in Shan
state are trying to survive in relocation sites, hiding in jungles away
from Burmese forces, or making efforts to reach Thailand in search of a
safe environment. Those trying to cross into Thailand have to pay large
bribes to middlemen, and if caught by the Burmese army, may be arrested.
Despite these obstacles, Shan groups estimate that each month more than a
thousand Shan come to just one area inside Thailand, swelling the number
of Shan asylum seekers to some 200,000.

The Shan who have managed to reach Thailand describe crimes of rape,
torture, extra-judicial executions and forced labor being committed by the
Burmese authorities. On arriving in Thailand, however, Shan are considered
illegal migrants, joining the more than one million “illegal” Burmese
workers already in the country. In the absence of any formal arrangement
for their survival, and with no local support structure, the majority of
the Shan have no option but to earn a living doing any kind of work they
can find, even the most dangerous jobs. Others, due to their ties to
different groups, and their contacts with the growing number of Shan
organizations in areas where local officials are sympathetic to their
plight, are able to access humanitarian assistance and education, and find
better jobs.

Most of the Shan in Thailand stay in the northern districts of Chiang Mai
and Mae Hong Son, and are mainly involved in agricultural work,
particularly in fruit orchards. Heavy pesticide use has affected many Shan
workers and contaminated community wells affect more, a situation which
has been reported by the Thai press and Thai NGOs. Many Shan agricultural
workers live in the open or in crude temporary shelters with no access to
Thai health care or schooling. Some are targeted by traffickers and others
exploited by their Thai employers.

The Shan interviewed by Refugees International expressed a constant fear
of deportation as the Thai government has increased roundups of Burmese
illegal migrants, deporting thousands back to Burma each month. Some of
them expressed a desire to live in “refugee camps,” as other ethnic groups
do. Nang Kham, a teacher in Shan state, fled to Thailand to avoid being
caught in the fighting between the SSA and the Burmese army. She is
presently living in one of several informal camps for displaced Shan
communities along the Thai-Burma border. She told RI, "I cannot go back to
my village as landmines have been laid all around it by the Burmese army
and the situation for Shan people in Thailand is also very difficult. It
is a myth that we will be able to assimilate with the Thais 
 We need to
have a formal camp for us. Right now, many of us just have the clothes on
our backs, it is very difficult for NGOs to find us and help us."

At the few informal camps set up along the border, there is no real
security and the situation for the refugees remains precarious. Recently,
in a move to appease the SPDC, the Thais shut down the only health clinic
on the Thai side of the border serving the Shan. RI is concerned that Shan
asylum seekers in Thailand are a group at risk and vulnerable to
exploitation, arrest, or deportation to Burma.

Refugees International, therefore, recommends that:

• The Royal Thai Government permit the Shan to apply to the new Provincial
Admission Boards for recognition as refugees, in the same way as other
Burmese ethnic groups. • The Royal Thai Government not allow deportations
of any Shan people until each individual has been examined, and it has
been determined that the person is an illegal migrant and not a genuine
asylum seeker. • The Royal Thai Government allow Shan asylum seekers,
particularly the most vulnerable populations, such as widows, orphans and
the elderly, to reside in camps, and permit agencies to provide
humanitarian assistance to the Shan outside the camps. • UNHCR work to
encourage the Thai Government to permit it to provide protection and
assistance programs to the Shan.

Kavita Shukla and Dawn Calabia of Refugees International conducted a joint
humanitarian assessment mission with the George Wolf Operating Foundation
to the Thai-Burma border in May



DRUGS
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June 25, Agence France Presse
Nine Chinese drug traffickers handed over by Myanmar

Nine Chinese drug traffickers caught inside Myanmar with 22 kilogrammes of
heroin and 100,000 stimulant pills have been handed over to authorities in
China, according to a report Friday.

Thirty-two Chinese nationals involved in the drugs trade had been passed
to China in the last three years, police colonel Kham Aung, joint
secretary of Myanmar's Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC)
told the Myanmar Times.

The military authorities also plan to publicly destroy drugs seized during
an anti-narcotics crackdown at a ceremony on Saturday.

The destruction ceremony comes as the United Nations prepares to mark an
International Day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking with the
release of its 2004 world drug report.

Myanmar is part of the Golden Triangle area of major drug production that
includes border areas of Laos and Thailand and is one of the world's
biggest suppliers of opium.

The United Nations said earlier this year that opium production in Myanmar
had been slashed by two-thirds since 1996, but booming trafficking in
methamphetamines remains a major concern.



REGIONAL

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June 25, Japan Economic Newswire
U.N. expert on human trafficking slams Japan's immigration controls

A U.N. expert on the crime of human trafficking for the purpose of
prostitution and forced labor expressed concern Friday over Japan's
immigration controls, saying they have allowed many Thai women to easily
enter the country with fake passports. 'Japan is one destination country
for a lot of (trafficked) Thai women,' Saisuree Chutikul, U.N. delegate
for the National Commission on Women's Affairs of Thailand, told reporters
in Tokyo.

These women come to Japan having been tricked with fictitious offers of
'good work' or 'good salary,' but they are forced to do something else,
mostly prostitution, said Saisuree, who is from Thailand.

She said about 6,000 Thai women are in Japan and many of them have been
forced into such work, but only about 60 women annually are able to seek
help at the Thai Embassy in Tokyo.

'The Thai government and Japanese government have to work together (to
resolve the problem),' Saisuree said.

She said Thai women have been able to easily pass through immigration
controls at Japan's airports using fake Singaporean or Hong Kong
passports, even though they might not speak English or Chinese.

Saisuree and three other experts were speaking at Tokyo's Foreign
Correspondents' Club of Japan after participating in an international
conference held Wednesday and Thursday in the capital titled 'Strategies
for Combating Human Trafficking in Asia.'

The conference was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, the
International Labor Organization, which is a U.N. agency, and Vital Voices
Global Partnership, an international nongovernmental organization.

In its annual 'Trafficking in Persons Report' unveiled June 14, the U.S.
State Department said, 'Japan is a destination country for Asian, Latin
American and Eastern European women and children trafficked for the
purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation.'

It put Japan on a special watch list of countries on the verge of falling
into the worst of three categories, which include such countries as North
Korea, Myanmar, Cuba and Sudan. It urged Japan to address trafficking
crimes and to provide better assistance for victims.

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June 25, Associated Press
Increasing drug addiction threats spreading AIDS in Bangladesh – Julhas Alam

Hiru Mia's father died before he was born. At age 7, his mother abandoned
him. Now 14, Mia is HIV positive, the result of a drug habit he acquired
on the streets and the dirty needles he uses to get his highs.

HIV/AIDS may turn into an epidemic in Bangladesh if the practice of
syringe-sharing by drug users is not checked, say experts who are using
the commemoration of International Anti-Drugs day on Saturday to draw
attention to the problem.

"We found Mia was HIV positive last year. Many drug users like him are at
high risk of HIV infection as most of them share syringes," said Mohammed
Omar Faruque, an official at CARE Bangladesh.

A 2002-2003 CARE study found that nearly 40 percent of Bangladesh drug
addicts use dirty needles and 4 percent of those were HIV positive - a
figure more than double the 1.7 percent infection rate reported in 2001 in
a separate study conducted among 8,037 drug users at 29 drop-in medical
centers in seven districts.

By contrast, the HIV prevalence rate among sex workers in this
conservative Muslim-majority country was as low as 0.5 percent in 2001,
and it was still below 1 percent in 2004, the study said.

Aid workers say use of condoms and greater awareness about the need for
safe syringes - thanks to campaigns promoting safe sex and warning of the
dangers of dirty needles - have kept HIV prevalence low among the sex
workers.

There is no official data on drug users in Bangladesh. However, according
to CARE's estimates, there are more than 5,000 intravenous drug users and
at least 18,000 heroin addicts in the capital Dhaka alone.

And Mia "is just one of many such victims in our country," said Faruque.

Take the case of Rini Akter.  She was just 7 when she was separated from
her family at a crowded ferry terminal in Dhaka. As night fell, an elderly
woman offered her shelter and promised to find her family.

"I believed her and that was the start of a new life, which I never dreamt
of," said Akter, who was a happy daughter of a poor grocer.

"Months later, the woman's husband forced me to have sex with him, and I
ended up on the streets after she caught us red-handed," said Akter, now
14, sitting quietly at a volunteer agency's office.

"I started taking drugs with my street mates, but I had no money to buy
them," she said. "Very soon I found the easiest way. I started selling my
body with others at a city park."

Recently Akter found she was HIV positive, after being tested at a medical
center run by CARE Bangladesh.

However, Faruque said it was not clear whether Akter contracted HIV from
sharing syringes or from her clients.

"It's really tough to know how she got infected. But we are sure that
before coming to our center, she had spread it among others through
sharing syringes," Faruque said.

The center, Faruque said, has other patients who are known to have
contracted the HIV virus through syringe-sharing.

"Most importantly, many of these people are married," Faruque said,
indicating the danger of passing on the deadly disease through sexual
intercourse. "They belong to various social classes and include mostly
rickshaw-pullers and both male and female sex workers."

Aid workers say each drug user spent an average US$707 per year on drugs.
In a country where the government estimates the per capita income is only
US$444, many take to stealing to get money to buy drugs.

Drugs easily enter Bangladesh through India and Myanmar.

The drop-in-centers for drug users provide health checkups and counseling
against addiction. They also run needle exchange programs to help check
the spread of diseases such as HIV.

There are at least 13,000 HIV infected people in Bangladesh, according to
estimates by the World Health Organization and the United Nations'
anti-AIDS agency.

But the government has confirmed only 363 AIDS cases since the late 1980s,
when the disease was first monitored here.



OPINION/ OTHER

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June 25, The Hindu
India’s Refugee Law and Policy – Rajeev Dhavan


We need to examine what India's doubts about protecting refugees are all
about. The `Cold War' reasons for not having a global refugee policy have
gone cold. Refugees are a global problem. The latest UNHCR statistics show
that in 2003, there were 20.55 million displaced persons of international
concern, including 10.34 million refugees. Refugees are being created all
the time — no less due to America's Afghanistan and Iraq wars. But even
otherwise, this is a problem that permanently haunts Africa and South
Asia. Europe and Australia want to tighten their immigration walls with
all kinds of sophisticated arguments to deal with refugees on a regional,
rather than a global, basis. India, instead of leading the debate, is
being evasive.

Who are refugees? According to the humanitarian definition, a refugee is
someone who has fled his country because he has a well-founded fear of
persecution if he remains. The major obligation of refugee protection is
the principle of non-refoulement, which ensures that a person is not
returned to a life-threatening situation.

For India to evade such a principle appears subversive of its
constitutional principles unless there are weighty reasons for doing so.
New Delhi's reasons for resisting refugee protection are paradoxical. On
the one hand, its track record in dealing with the Tibetan, the Sri Lankan
and the Chakma crises has been exemplary. Its hesitation to provide an
intelligible and comprehensive protection to refugees seems to stem from
two major considerations, which are artificial ghosts in the machine
.

For the full story please go to:
http://www.hindu.com/2004/06/25/stories/2004062501791000.htm

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June 25, Irrawaddy
The Opposition’s Generation Gap - Wai Moe

June 25, 2004—Last Friday, June 19, was the 59th birthday of Aung San Suu
Kyi, the icon of the Burmese democracy movement and leader of the National
League for Democracy, or NLD. As the winning party in the 1990 election,
it is hoped they will one day be the ruling party in Burma.

In the NLD’s central executive committee, however, Suu Kyi is the youngest
of the nine members, many of whom are in their seventies and eighties.
Now, more than ever, the NLD must encourage the younger generation to take
roles of responsibility in the party. An aging NLD without a younger
cohort prepared to continue the party’s work is dangerous for the
continued fight for democracy in Burma
.

For the full article, please go to:

http://www.irrawaddy.org/com/index.html?


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June 24, US Senate Floor Statement
On Senate reauthorizing the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act - McConnell

Mr. President, I want to thank my colleagues for again acting swiftly in
support of freedom in Burma.

By considering and passing the resolution renewing import sanctions
against the illegitimate State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), we
match our words of support for the people of Burma with concrete deeds.


The situation in Burma is dire:  Suu Kyi and other NLD leaders remain
imprisoned; a crackdown on democracy activists continues; and the SPDC's
inhumane policies of child and forced labor, rape as a weapon of war,
narcotics and human trafficking, and the use of child soldiers remain
unchanged.

Despite their worst efforts over the past 14 years, the SPDC has failed to
smother the flames of freedom in Burma.  I continue to be inspired by
reports of activists who bravely and nonviolently defy the junta's
illegitimate rule - like the handful arrested last month for distributing
pamphlets in several Burmese townships marking the one-year anniversary of
the Depayin massacre.

It would be wise for the SPDC to accept the time-tested fact that Suu Kyi
and the NLD are not going anywhere.    They, and the ethnic minorities,
are an integral part of the solution to the Burmese problem.

To wit, the NLD and their supporters made the courageous and correct
decision to boycott the sham SPDC-orchestrated constitutional convention
last month.  I am pleased that international condemnation by the United
States, United Nations (U.N.), European Union (E.U.) and regional
neighbors of the hollow convention was rightly aimed at the SPDC.  The
generals in Rangoon made any number of assurances to foreign diplomats
that the process would be inclusive.  It clearly was not.

This only underscores the imperative to judge the SPDC not by what it says
but by what it does.

The convention turned out to be nothing more than a summer camp for SPDC
sycophants.  According to the Washington Times, the junta required their
handpicked delegates to "bathe at reasonable times, avoid junk food and
live in self-contained camps where they can enjoy karaoke, movies and
golf."

Mr. President, import sanctions by the United States alone will not help
facilitate a meaningful reconciliation process in Burma.  We need the
U.N., E.U., and regional neighbors to fully commit to the cause.  This was
made clear by the NLD in a recent plea to U.N. General-Secretary Kofi
Annan to "take this matter to the Security Council".

The U.N. should help the NLD and the people of Burma by examining the
clear and present danger Burma poses to the region.  This must include
narcotics production and trafficking, the spread of HIV/AIDS throughout
the region, the gross human rights violations of the SPDC,
the plight of Burmese refugees and IDPs, and alarming reports of the
junta's interests in North Korean missiles and Russian nuclear technology.

The E.U. should help the NLD and the Burmese people by examining its
sanctions regime and imposing further punitive measures against the junta.
 I am pleased that our allies in the E.U. recently canceled the upcoming
Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) dialogue in Brussels over the attendance of the
SPDC.  The junta has no place at this multilateral table.

Regional neighbors should help the Burmese people by reconsidering the
Association of Southeast Asian Nation's (ASEAN) outdated policy of
noninterference in the internal affairs of member states.

Asian leaders must recognize the regime for what it is - wholly
illegitimate to the people of Burma, the international community and the
region.  The SPDC's export of illicit drugs and HIV/AIDS is, literally,
burying the children of Asia.  All of Asia's youth - not only those in
Burma - face a future that is undermined by Burmese-spread drugs and
disease.

The region cannot ignore the fact of the junta's chairmanship of ASEAN in
2006.  There could be no greater loss of face for that association than
being under the guidance of the SPDC.

Let me close by thanking my colleagues - all 53 - who joined me in
sponsoring the sanctions resolution.  I want to recognize, in particular,
the efforts of Senators Feinstein and McCain and their respective staffs
to support freedom and justice in Burma.  The Burmese people have no
greater friends in the Senate - or in Washington.  I also appreciate the
efforts by Senators Grassley and Baucus and their respective staffs to
expedite consideration of the legislation.

I would be remiss if I did not note the words of support of the NLD made
by former Mongolian Prime Minister Tashika Elbegdorj, the Sam Rainsy Party
in Cambodia, and the cross-party Burma Caucus formed by Malaysian
parliamentarians.  Although they are engaged in their own efforts - and,
in some cases, struggles - for democracy and human rights in their
respective countries, they stand in solidarity with the people of Burma.

I would encourage other neighbors to find their voice in support of the
Suu Kyi and the NLD during these troubling times.

I ask that a copy of a letter I received from Secretary of State Colin
Powell supporting this legislation appear in the Record following my
remarks.



ANOUNCEMENT

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June 25, Burma Campaign UK
New Burma ‘Dirty List’ Published August 24

Name and Shame- On August 24th 2004 the Burma Campaign UK will be
publishing an updated version of its ‘dirty list’ of companies helping to
finance Burma’s military dictatorship.

The 2003 edition of the 'Dirty List' received national and international
media coverage, and was commended in the British Parliament. It prompted
several companies to either withdraw from Burma or review their operations
there, including WPP, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Carnival/P&O. All have
now cut their links with Burma.

Following extensive new research, including undercover trips inside Burma,
more than 20 new companies are expected to be added to the 'Dirty List'.
The list will mainly feature British companies, or foreign companies with
a presence in the UK.

Companies already on the 'Dirty List' and expected to feature again
include Total Oil, Lonely Planet, DHL/Deutsche Post, Orient Express,
Suzuki, and Hutchison Whampoa and its subsidiaries, which include 3
Mobile.

Advance copies of the list will be available to the media.

For more information contact Mark Farmaner, Media Officer, on 020 7324 4713.