Barbara Gaerlan summarized ERI's presentation this past Tuesday at the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies by stressing the concerns that groups like ERI are raising regarding new pipeline construction in the Shwe Gas project. "Large-scale natural gas projects have directly and indirectly led to violations of basic human rights through the complicity of multinational corporate actors. These abuses are ongoing. EarthRights International does not claim that the corporations are engaging in human rights violations themselves, but rather that they partner with the repressive Burmese military regime. It is the Burmese military, in its capacity as contractor for the big energy projects, that commits the serious human rights abuses."

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