Revealed: how world’s biggest fossil fuel firms ‘profited in Myanmar after coup’
GuardianAPR 3 2023
Since the coup, private US companies have been profiting to the tune of millions from doing business with the Junta, so it's good to see Washington is finally following the EU's footsteps in sanctioning MOGE. When companies like Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Diamond Offshore Drilling use Myanmar's oil fields, they're helping finance the dictatorship's violent stranglehold on its citizens. Fossil fuel companies can no longer separate 'just doing business' from human cost of that business.
The US government does more than condemn atrocities and impose sanctions — it also funds pro-Western media outlets to produce desirable coverage of Myanmar. Just as has happened in every other country where it wished to conduct regime change, Washington is using these newspapers to exacerbate the crimes of the junta so it can push preferable international policy. If Washington eventually gets its pro-America leader into Myanmar's government, you can expect the disappearance of 'truth-telling' outlets.