Salween Dams Global Day of Action
9 February 2007
Civil society groups issue a call to join activists from around the world to stand up in solidarity with Burma 's victims of severe and systematic human rights violations and environmental destruction and protest the Thai government's plans with the Burmese military regime to dam the Salween River in Burma on February 28.
Civil society groups are issuing a call to join activists and gather outside your Thai embassy or consulate on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 to call for the complete halt of dam building plans on the Salween River .
According to Northern NGO CORD and the Salween Watch Coalition "Burma’s repressive military dictatorship, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the state-owned Energy Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), and the Chinese state-owned enterprise Sinohydro Corporation are pushing ahead quickly and secretively with plans to build a series of large dams in civil war zones on the Salween River in Burma."
"The recently ousted Thai government strongly supported these plans and the current administration has done nothing to halt the projects, indicating that pressure is needed now to persuade them to end the unacceptable plans to build dams in an area from which peoples of a variety of ethnic minority groups are systematically being not only displaced, but also robbed, tortured, raped or executed."
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