The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by Rolls-Royce that the company is ceasing all business in Burma. The Burma Campaign UK this afternoon received a faxed statement from Rolls-Royce confirming it is ending its involvement in Burma.
“We welcome the fact that Rolls-Royce have finally done the decent thing, and cut their ties with this brutal regime,” said Myo Thein, Campaigns Officer at Burma Campaign UK. “Companies should not be helping to fund a regime that slaughters its own population. We call on companies such as Total Oil, Chevron, Daewoo, Orient Express and Hutchison Whampoa, owners of 3 Mobile, to follow their example.”
Rolls-Royce featured on the ‘Dirty List’ of companies directly or indirectly funding the regime in Burma. The full list can be viewed at:http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/dirty-and-clean-list/dirty-list/contact-details Rolls Royce have now been removed from the list.
Rolls-Royce statement follows:
“In view of the situation in Burma, Rolls-Royce has decided to cease all business with that country. The Company is immediately returning two engines to Myanmar Airways which were awaiting overhaul at one of our UK facilities and we will terminate the contract for future repair work.
Rolls-Royce does also have contractual commitments with a Singapore-based operator who, in turn, leases an aircraft to a Burmese airline. Action is in hand to terminate this contract also and it is anticipated that this involvement will be terminated by early November 2007.
At that point Rolls-Royce will have no further involvement in Burma and will not be seeking any further business.”
For more information contact Mark Farmaner, Acting Director, on 02073244713.