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Crude politics - John Vidal assesses 13 years of negotiatons on the giant $3.6bn Azerbaijan-Turkey oil pipeline
When it was first pointed out that BP was creating a "rights-free corridor" [along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline] little attention was paid, but when Amnesty International raised specific legal points and accused BP of "disregarding the human rights of thousands of people in the region", the World Bank took it very seriously indeed.