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Article

27 Jul 2007

Author:
James Macintyre and James Moore, Independent [UK]

Demands grow for British firms to cut links with Burmese regime

Politicians and campaigners rallied behind The Independent's highlighting of Burma's appalling human rights abuses, and called for British businesses to sever links with the country's regime...But Rolls-Royce's director of corporate affairs, Charles Blundell, defended his company's decision to continue operating in the country. He said: "The position is that Rolls-Royce's involvement in the Myanmar market has been limited to the maintenance of a small number of civil air engines to ensure they operate effectively. The risk is if they were not it could result in fatalities." The company denied claims made by the Burma Campaign that its Singaporean subsidiary supplied and maintained engines to Burmese airlines...The British Government continues to refuse to name companies importing with Burma...[also refers to Orient Express, Hutchison Whampoa, 3 Mobile (part of Hutchison Whampoa), Superdrug (part of Hutchison Whampoa), Timbmet, Total]