After long campaign by rights groups, Puma Energy decided to withdraw from Burma, reports the Karen media/news company Salween Press.
Zoya Phan, Campaign manager at Burma Campaign UK said, “Puma Energy is leaving Burma. It means our campaigns play crucial role to pressure foreign companies as well as Burmese military junta. Pressure on companies providing aviation fuel to the Burmese military is growing. Now governments like UK and others must stop companies selling aviation fuel and aircraft parts to the Burmese military.”
Over a million people are displaced across Burma and more than 370,000 people are displaced in Karen State alone, many because of the airstrikes and the threat of airstrikes by the Burmese military.
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