Announcement by
Blood Money Campaign:  

Call on President Macron and the French Government to refuse to allow TotalEnergies to use exemptions to EU Sanctions!

Targets: President Macron, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, French Embassy in Myanmar, French Ambassador

16-20 June 2022

#NoExemption #FreezePaymentsToJunta
#BloodMoneyMyanmar

We urge local and international Strike Committees, Revolution Organizations, CSOs, Unions and INGOs to be involved in the Blood Money Campaign:  Preventing millions of dollars in gas revenues to reach the genocidal junta and to stop its brutality and disincentivizes it from the coup.

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UPDATE (June 20th, 2022)

Joint Statement

Myanmar and International: Call on President Macron and the French Government to refuse to allow TotalEnergies to use exemptions to EU Sanctions, 459 Organizations from 20 countries.

We urge President Macron and the French Government
1. To prevent millions of dollars of gas revenues reaching the Myanmar military criminal junta by refusing to authorize TotalEnergies’ use of exemptions to EU sanctions.
2. It is imperative that the French government continues to support the Myanmar people’s efforts to end the brutal military dictatorship and build a federal democracy and stop TotalEnergies from funding genocidaires.
President Macron must listen to his own lawmakers and officials and stop capitulating to a corporation that has demonstrated a willingness to disregard the Myanmar people and fund a military junta that is actively engaging in genocide and crimes against humanity.

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Online activities and ground movement

1. Photo Campaign (to post on Facebook + Twitter)
2. Comment Campaign
3. Twitter Trending
4. Ground Protest!

1. Photo Campaign

Call on President Macron and the French Government to refuse to allow TotalEnergies to use exemptions to EU Sanctions!

Write the requested text on a paper and upload the photo to your social media accounts with the bloody three-finger salute sign.
You can wear a red shirt, a blood-stained shirt, and a red armband.

Requested text on paper:

President Macron & French Government – Don’t Allow Exemptions

President Macron – Stop TotalEnergies funding genocide

French Government –  #NoExemption

Hashtags to use:

#NoExemption #FreezePaymentsToJunta #BloodMoneyMyanmar #Total_StopSponsoringJunta

Please send your photos to the BMC page: fb.com/BloodMoneyCampaignMM and email to bloodmoneycampaign21@gmail.com and asia@icl-cit.org.

2. Comment Campaign (Facebook and Twitter)

Please comment with photos that the genocidal junta commits atrocities in Myanmar!

Facebook:

French President: fb.com/EmmanuelMacron
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: fb.com/france.diplomacy 

French Embassy in Myanmar: fb.com/France.Birmanie 
French Ambassador: fb.com/christian.lechervy.3

#FreezePaymentsToJunta  #NoExemption

For the comments, you can use these sample texts (.doc).

3. Twitter mass trending

#FreezePaymentsToJunta #NoExemption

Accounts to mention:

French President: @EmmanuelMacron
French Diplomacy: @francediplo_EN
French Ambassador: @CLechervy

On the Twitter Team For Revolution Facebook page, you can see the dates and times to join Twitter mass trending. To support the mass trending, the below pictures and these sample tweets (.doc) were created!

4. Ground Protest

President Macron and French Government – Don’t Allow Exemptions
ပြင်သစ် အစိုးရအနေနဲ့ ကင်းလွတ်ခွင့်တွေ အသုံးပြုခွင့် မပေးပါနဲ့။

President Macron – Stop TotalEnergies funding genocide
ပြင်သစ် သမ္မတ – တိုတယ် က ရာဇဝတ်မှုတွေ ထောက်ပံ့နေတာကို ရပ်တန့်ပေးပါ။

French Government – #NoExemption
ပြင်သစ်အစိုးရ  #ကင်းလွတ်ခွင့်တွေကိုအသုံးပြုခွင့်မပေးနဲ့။

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5. Massive Calling and Mailing

Only AFTER June 20th!

Let’s call and speak to the French Government not to allow TotalEnergies to use exemptions and to stop the funding of atrocities in Myanmar. No business with complicity in crimes against humanity, other mass atrocities and genocidal junta!

French Embassy’s phone number: +95 1 212 520
Email Address: ambafrance.rangoun@diplomatie.gouv.fr