"I wish you would supervise the violation of human rights by Korean businesses overseas"
"On the part of Korea, it would be an overseas investment but it is related to violating human rights which threaten the residents with death. I came to Korea to let you know that as the Korean government agency takes part in developing gas in Schue, Myanmar, it is not a matter of business but a matter of all Koreans' focus."
The reason why Andrew Lansley, director of Asian Bureau of the Earth Rights headquartered in Washington, USA, came to Korea is to let us know that the Myanmar natural gas development project joined by Daewoo International is ready to help the Myanmar military regime's dictatorship. She explained in detail the Myanmar's 'special' circumstances that foreign investments could not be related to violating human rights. "Within Myanmar, if any foreign business wants to do business, it should enter into a joint venture with the military. On the grounds that the military provides the safety of installations and personnel, the military enters any foreign country and such solders caused human rights such as forced labor and sexual violence on the scene."
Actually, she pointed up that Unocal, a US oil company, participated in developing Myanmar but it was important to have been filed a complaint and was responsible indirectly for violating human rights and there were cases where tens of thousands of damage dollars. She who had bonds with democratization movement in Myanmar for a genuine link for serving voluntary work for 3 months in Bangkok, Thailand 10 years ago, married his husband 8 years ago and now live in Chiangmai.
"Our demonstrations will not make the businesses which have invested hundreds of million dollars. But if they don't assert that profits of a business go before human rights, we should devise a stumbling block to any expected problem. We did not come to Korea not for denunciating it but for hearing the answer to it.
(Reported by Lee Sun-hyeok and photographed by Kim Jin-su)
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