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Pathbreaking settlement reached in 2004. Villagers compensated by Unocal.
On March 21, oil giant Unocal announced that a settlement had been reached in an eight-year-long legal case in which the company was accused of complicity in egregious human rights abuses, including forced labour and relocations, rape and murder. The accusations were in relation to the company’s involvement in the Yadana natural gas pipeline project in southern Burma. Read Full Text