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The secret pipeline: how Burmese junta is making €1bn a year

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A billion euros a year. That's the profit allegedly being made by the Burmese government, to the cost of the Burmese people. The ruling junta's accused of secretly selling the country's oil and natural gas reserves to China via clandestine pipelines. A local NGO says locals are being exploited in the project, which is adding to the fuel shortage that's already taken hold in the capital, Rangoon.

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SELLING OUT THEIR COUNTRIES

by Anonyme - 27/07/2011 - 21:41

THIS ''SOCIALIST'' JUNTA IS SELLING OUT THEIR COUNTRY RESOURCES TO CHINA FOR A CUT IN THE PROFITS SO THEY DONT HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH THE BURMESE PEOPLE
OUTREACHOUS HIPOCRASY!

Animal Farm

by Anonyme - 29/06/2011 - 13:20

It takes men without any morals or conscience to be able to run a country and its people to the ground while they usurp all the money and power for their personal use. They obviously have no soul.

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