Boycott Connex over occupation of Palestine, murder in Sudan
intifada 3 | 25.04.2006 07:21
Boycott the Connex company for its support of the Occupation of Palestine and forced relocation and murder of local communities in North Sudan.
For one good reason to boycott the European company Connex and their subsidiaries, see their work sustaining the Occupation and ghettoization of Palestine by visiting the Stop the Wall website - 
http://www.stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/ConexEN.pdf . This page will also tell you how to boycott the company and which companies in your country are part of the Connex empire.
Another good reason is the work of their subsidiary Alstom in Sudan, building a dam that is resulting in the forced relocation and murder of local communties. See the following from Reuters.
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Another group of people suffering in Sudan are those being displaced by the construction of one of Africa’s largest hydropower projects. The Merowe Dam, north of Khartoum, is financed by China Exim Bank and a number of Middle Eastern backers, and is being built by Chinese and European companies, including Lahmeyer International, Alstom and ABB.
The International Rivers Network, (IRN), an advocacy group, has argued for some time that the resettlement conditions on offer from the government are likely to lead to severe poverty among the affected communities – mainly because much of the land they're being allocated is in desert areas.
However, things now seem to be taking a turn for the worse. According to IRN and the Leadership Office of Hamdab Affected People (LOHAP), militia protecting the dam recently attacked a group from the Amri community, killing three people and wounding at least 50 others. The armed men, working for the government’s dam authority, reportedly opened fire without warning on people having breakfast at a local school.
IRN’s Peter Bosshard told AlertNet: “The dam authorities have been taking steps to prepare for the resettlement of this community, and as part of that, they wanted to do a census. The villagers wouldn’t participate, and so it is likely that the attack came in response to that.” IRN and LOHAP are calling on the international community “to take immediate steps to protect the people affected by the Merowe Dam from further atrocities, and to investigate the massacre”.
http://www.stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/ConexEN.pdf . This page will also tell you how to boycott the company and which companies in your country are part of the Connex empire. Another good reason is the work of their subsidiary Alstom in Sudan, building a dam that is resulting in the forced relocation and murder of local communties. See the following from Reuters.
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Another group of people suffering in Sudan are those being displaced by the construction of one of Africa’s largest hydropower projects. The Merowe Dam, north of Khartoum, is financed by China Exim Bank and a number of Middle Eastern backers, and is being built by Chinese and European companies, including Lahmeyer International, Alstom and ABB.
The International Rivers Network, (IRN), an advocacy group, has argued for some time that the resettlement conditions on offer from the government are likely to lead to severe poverty among the affected communities – mainly because much of the land they're being allocated is in desert areas.
However, things now seem to be taking a turn for the worse. According to IRN and the Leadership Office of Hamdab Affected People (LOHAP), militia protecting the dam recently attacked a group from the Amri community, killing three people and wounding at least 50 others. The armed men, working for the government’s dam authority, reportedly opened fire without warning on people having breakfast at a local school.
IRN’s Peter Bosshard told AlertNet: “The dam authorities have been taking steps to prepare for the resettlement of this community, and as part of that, they wanted to do a census. The villagers wouldn’t participate, and so it is likely that the attack came in response to that.” IRN and LOHAP are calling on the international community “to take immediate steps to protect the people affected by the Merowe Dam from further atrocities, and to investigate the massacre”.
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