In "Energy Security: Security for Whom?," a paper published in the 11th volume of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, ERI’s Matthew Smith and Naing Htoo detail the direct and indirect human rights violations resulting from the development of military-ruled Burma’s vast natural gas resources and the complicity of multinational corporate actors. These abuses are ongoing and there is an unreasonably high risk they will increase as more gas projects are developed. They argue that the energy security strategies of China, Thailand, and India—and by association, the national oil corporations under those governments—relying on Burmese resources have paid dangerously inadequate attention to the protection of human rights. The paper considers past and present human rights abuses connected to the Yadana natural gas project, developed by a consortium complicit multinational actors and goes on to detail the threat of future human rights abuses in connection to the country’s largest offshore gas deposits, the Shwe pipeline project.