Dear John
Would you go into business with someone if you knew they were helping a serial killer murder people? Airbus has.
When Burmese military aircraft bomb schools, hospitals and homes, there is a good chance that the aircraft dropping the bombs were made by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a Chinese company.
AVIC sold up to 8 new aircraft to the Burmese military in the last year alone, knowing full well they will be used to kill civilians. Deliberate attacks on civilian targets break international law.
Airpower is key to the survival of the Burmese military. Their deliberate and indiscriminate bombing is responsible for a large proportion of more than 4 million people forced to flee their homes since the coup. It has created a humanitarian crisis.
A key international partner of AVIC is Airbus, the biggest aerospace company in the UK and Europe.
Airbus has numerous partnerships with different subsidiaries of AVIC, including joint ventures, collaborating in technology, and using them as a supplier. Airbus is even the part owner of one AVIC subsidiary company.
Why is Europe’s biggest aerospace company doing business with a company helping the Burmese military to bomb schools and hospitals? AVIC is complicit in the deaths of civilians and violations of international law.
Airbus must give its business partner AVIC an ultimatum: Stop supplying the Burmese military, or we end all our business relationships.
Please email Guillaume Faury, Airbus Chief Executive Officer, here.
