Greetings, World. We are Anonymous The brave people of Niger have taken to the streets in mass protests which the world’s media have chosen to paint as “political”. These protests are really against the economic slavery and puppet dictatorship of sub-Saharan Africa by the French Areva Corporation and other ruthless corporate entities. Areva is a French state owned multinational which mines uranium in Niger, Gabon, Kazakhstan, the Central African Republic, Canada and elsewhere. They were the primary supplier of the most controversial material to Fukushima and they are a majority stakeholder in the genocidal biofuel firms of Brazil’s Amazon. Niger received just 13% of the more than €3.5bn (£2.9bn) the uranium from Areva Corporation’s two Niger mines produced in 2010. Although mining made up 70.8% of Niger’s exports in 2010, it contributed only 5.8% of the country’s gross domestic product. Niger has the second-largest underground uranium mine in the world and it is in the world’s last place on the 2013 UN human development index. More than 40% of Niger’s children are underweight. Water and access to improved water sources is scarce. Almost three quarters of the population are illiterate. Millions of Nigeriens live without electricity, education and health care. As we speak, Areva is attempting to negotiate a new contract with Niger and their bullying tactics continue. We demand Areva be as open and as fair as possible in negotiating a huge mineral contract with the world’s poorest country. Niger is continually hit by droughts and floods. The uranium mines that come at the cost of radioactive contaminated land, water table depletion, and centuries of environmental pollution and health risks for the citizens of Niger should at least provide a secure economy that protects against disaster and provides basic services for its people. Instead, we see once more, highly secretive negotiations, French troops massing on the Niger border while citing terrorism, and the world’s media depicting Niger in a state of political unrest instead of economic tyranny. Areva Corporation also wishes to return to the nation of Gabon where it is easy to exploit the impoverished people with kickbacks to their corrupt (OpGabon needs a shoutout) President Bongo. Areva has been in the Central African Republic since 1958 leaving radioactive pollution, militias, poverty, desperation, people with unknown diseases, broken promises for compensation and decapitated children in their wake instead of economic empowerment. From Japan’s Fukushima to Brazil’s Amazon, to the sub-Sahara and soon the Arctic, everywhere we have seen Areva they leave desperation, death and poverty in their wake. While journalists have been content to shake their heads over corruption, dictators, or what they term ‘ethnic unrest’ or ‘religious conflict’, there are no mainstream media reports on the economic destruction wreaked by Areva on these countries. Areva’s image search shows no hint of the death, disease and destruction they are responsible for. Anonymous is issuing a challenge to the world’s journalists. We want to read investigative reporting. We want less decapitated children and more reasons people are left desperate and warring in disease and poverty after these companies have pillaged all of their wealth. We want to hear these stories before children are decapitated. And we want to know the people responsible for these unequal and harmful trade agreements. Right now, we want to know about Areva. What are the terms of the secret deal they are offering to Niger? What is their human rights and environmental activity in Kazakhstan? What will be their impact in Nunavut? We want all the economic relationships between Gabon and France and we want the holdings in France of Gabon’s President Bongo. Niger is already in an uncertain and tense state and Anonymous will not stand by while Areva unleashes the same hell we’ve witnessed in the Central African Republic, Gabon and Nigeria in Niger. We are Anonymous. We are everywhere. We are legion. We are those you have left without a home. We are those you have murdered. We are voiceless no more. The world will change. We’ll change it. Corporate Tyrants of the World, Expect Us! Please contact the following and let them know that Areva’s global reign of terror is not acceptable: Parlementaires français / Parliament of France Assemblée nationale 126, rue de l’Université 75355 Paris 07 SP Tél. : 01 40 63 60 00 [email protected] assemblee-nationale.fr/ AREVA Tour AREVA (Head Office) 1, place Jean Millier 92400 Courbevoie – France Tel.: +331 34 96 12 15 Fax: +331 34 96 16 54 email : press@areva tradepress@areva areva/ AREVA NIGER niger.areva/ Somaïr Immeuble Sonara I Rond Point Kennedy B.P. 12910 Niamey Niger Tel. : + 33 (0)1 34 96 41 75 Fax : + 227 72 51 13 Cominak Immeuble Sonara I Place Rond Point Kennedy BP 10 545 Niamey Niger Tel. : + 33 (0)1 34 96 41 75 Fax : + 227 20 73 28 55 Imouraren SA Immeuble Amar Taleb Zone Industrielle, Avenue du Progrès BP 13 086 Niamey Niger Tel.: +227 20 75 25 11 Fax: +227 20 72 24 83 EUROPEAN UNION europa.eu/ European Commission TRADE (Commissioner Karel DE GUCHT) John CLANCY Spokesperson Office: BERL 1/355 Tel: +32 (0)2 295 37 73 Mobile: +32 (0)498 953 773 Email: [email protected] Helene BANNER Press Officer Office: BERL 1/352 Tel: +32 (0)2 295 24 07 Mobile: +32 (0)460 752 407 Email: [email protected] ENERGY (Commissioner Günther OETTINGER) Sabine BERGER Spokesperson (acting) Office: BERL 2/344 Tel: +32 (0)2 299 27 92 Email: [email protected] Nicole BOCKSTALLER Press Officer Office: BERL 2/342 Tel: +32 (0)2 295 25 89 Mobile: +32 (0)498 952 589 Email: [email protected] ——————————————————————————————————-
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:18:22 +0000
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