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Billions of dollars in gas revenues have been siphoned away by the Burmese military junta and are helping fund a clandestine nuclear weapons program, according to a new report released on Monday in Paris by international environmental group, EarthRights International (ERI).

Titled “Energy Insecurity: How Total, Chevron, and PTTEP Contribute to Human Rights Violations, Financial Secrecy, and Nuclear Proliferation in Burma (Myanmar),” the report comes hot on the heels of an exposé by exiled Burmese news agency Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB)—based on material from Burmese army defectors—which added credence to allegations that the military rulers of Burma are seeking nuclear weapons technology and are in breach of UN Security Council resolutions on North Korea.

ERI says that this activity is likely to be funded by revenues from the Yadana Gas field in the Bay of Bengal. Former International Atomic Energy Agency director Robert Kelley described the nuclear activity taking place in Burma as “useful only for weapons.” (more…)