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Burma: Targeted Sanctions Needed on Petroleum Industry
The United Nations Security Council should act to prohibit any new investment in Burma’s oil and gas fields and block company payments that help sustain Burma’s brutal military rule, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said that until the Security Council imposes sanctions…countries that have economic ties to Burma should act to suspend any further development of Burma’s oil and gas sector…In a detailed new compilation of information on foreign investment in oil and gas released today, Human Rights Watch identified 27 companies based in 13 countries as having investment interests in Burma’s oil and gas fields. [refers to Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE)]