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NOUVELOBS.COM | 26.03.2010 | 17:05

Exclusive Sherpa Associations, Info-Burma and Reporters Without Borders sent
a letter to Alcatel-Lucent, which they accuse of abetting the Burmese junta.

Following the investigation, “Burma: Resistance, business and secret nuclear” journalist Paul Moreira, to be broadcast this Friday, March 26th on Canal +, in which he reveals that a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel Shanghai Bell has established a network for the Burmese junta, associations Sherpa, Info-Burma and Reporters Without Borders have decided to publicly challenge the leadership of the Franco-American, by sending him a letter which we publish in exclusivity. With technical support of this branch, the Burmese junta will be able to centralize the entire means of communication and hence to monitor or censor them, “denounced the signatories, like Paul Moreira.
“The purpose of this letter is to push Alcatel-Lucent to take public its contradictions,” said lawyer William Bourdon, President of Sherpa to nouvelobs.com. “On its website, Alcatel-Lucent issues a ‘code of conduct’ with ethical commitments. Many groups now multiply this type of commitment, they are tools for enhancing their image, which was not the case 20 years ago. This can be a showcase, it necessarily raises their level of obligation. ”
“It is considered well understood that modernization is desirable for countries in need, but if it is a source of aggravation of punishment, it is detestable,” said William Bourdon.
Welcoming the example set by Google, which withdrew from China, the lawyer hopes that eventually “the power relationship between torturers and market operators supported by civil society can change, even if it is still very far. ” For this, they must understand that if this has a cost in the short term, they will be more profitable in the long term by becoming more virtuous. ”

Alcatel-Lucent denied Friday after the publication of the letter reproduced below, “having supplied or installed any solution dedicated to monitoring of telephone conversations or Internet.

Here is the letter sent to Alcatel Lucent

In Paris, March 24, 2010

Mr. Ben Verwaayen,

Associations and individuals signing this letter you write to you expressing their serious concerns about the activities of your subsidiary, Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Burma.
It shows all the facts brought to our attention that Alcatel is providing support and expertise to the Burmese regime. In particular, your subsidiary ALCATEL SHANGHAI BELL would put all of its know-how available to the Burmese junta to allow it to expand its network infrastructure and set up cyber city of Yadanabon, whose purpose is to centralize the entire electronic communications.
These projects allow the Burmese junta to centralize all the means of communication and hence to monitor or censor them.
If the installation of the Internet represents a breakthrough for the country in terms of openness to the outside world, centralization of communications is of interest in terms of control, filtering and censorship. What the Burmese military expressed very clearly in their official press while mentioning the role of your subsidiary. It may also allow monitoring of communications between the Burmese opposition in exile with their families and their contacts in Burma.
While there is no doubt in view of various arrests and convictions of serious bloggers that the junta engages already control the Internet, it can not be disputed that the installation of your filtering techniques will , surveillance and censorship more effective and harder. We remind you that, as you indicate on your own website you have provided Chinese authorities with an Integrated Lawful Intercept, an integrated interception system that enables listening and monitoring all electronic communications. Are you sure that your Chinese subsidiary does not have this device in the scope of the Burmese military? That would mean even more bloggers in prison and a gross infringement of human rights.
Even though you claim a certain ethics and approach that respects human rights, as evidenced by your “Code of Conduct”, your subsidiary, by providing technical assistance and expertise to Burma’s military government has taken share is the implementation of these controls.
Moreover, as you know, working with the Burmese regime, you make this one, always done in addition to your technical skills enhanced surveillance, a form of international recognition.
The economic sanctions imposed by the international community certainly do not necessarily binding, but should not you be totally indifferent. Therefore, we kindly request you to kindly let us know if you plan to keep your affiliate ALCATEL SHANGHAI BELL continue to provide technical and moral part, to the Burmese junta,
Could you also tell us what steps, if any have been taken to prevent such use by the junta technical means that you have made available to enable monitoring and enforcement of Internet use.

Pending a response from you, please accept, Mr. Ben Verwaayen, the expression of our feelings distinguished.

Sherpa Association, William Bourdon, President
Info Burma Debomy Frederick, President
Reporters Without Borders, Jean-Francois Julliard, president
Jane Birkin, singer
Saw Thuzar, representative of the Burmese opposition in France
U. Kumara, Burmese Buddhist monk
Soe Aung, Deputy Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Forum for Democracy in Burma “