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Oil-gas giant faces landmark trial over slavery in Myanmar

December 07, 2003

Myanmar - The Unocal oil company is about to become the first corporation in history to stand trial in the United States over human rights violations abroad.

And two Seattle law professors are helping to make history in the shocking case, in which corporate partners used Myanmar's notoriously brutal military regime to provide "security" for a natural gas pipeline project in the remote Yadana region near the Thai border.

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