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Article

12 Dec 2001

Author:
The Scotsman [UK]

Support where it matters [Burma]

...The lobby group claims that Triumph International [lingerie manufacturer] is supporting the brutal regime in Burma by paying rent for the plant direct to the military junta, responsible for Burma’s appalling record of human rights abuses and slave labour. They state that workers at the Triumph factory north of Rangoon are paid 70p a day, a level described as an "extreme poverty wage" by the United Nations.