The Gas Comics: EU Sells Out Human Rights to Turkmenistan
You’ve got to respect Global Witness … for a watchdog NGO, they bring a lot of creativity and innovation to their cause (see this past campaign for another example). GW has also done a tremendous job in the past unearthing all the corruption surrounding RosUkrEnergo, a subject which has come up again and again (let’s just say the corruption scandal reaches pretty high). Today they published another hot report to remind the European Commission how they’ve got it all wrong in selling out human rights and democracy to the brutal dictatorship in Turkmenistan in exchange for eventual access to natural gas … including a collaboration with the political cartoonist David Rees.
Click here to read “All that Gas?,” and see after the jump for one excerpt about how the Russia supply threat plays into the EC’s Central Asia policies.