Total hired Mozambique's notoriously brutal and corrupt military to guard its massive natural gas development – where out-of-control soldiers imprisoned innocent villagers in red hot shipping containers. The soldiers starved, tortured, and executed most of their prisoners. Now a few brave survivors are risking their lives to speak out. Some of the project's biggest backers are already hesitating – if we make sure top decision-makers hear survivors' stories, they could pull the plug on Total's blood gas project for good.SIGN NOW A brave survivor shared his story, risking his life so the world would know the truth about the massacre at Total's gas site:
| | Total hired Mozambique's notoriously brutal and corrupt military to guard its massive natural gas development – where out-of-control soldiers imprisoned innocent villagers in red hot shipping containers. The soldiers starved, tortured, and executed most of their prisoners. Now a few brave survivors are risking their lives to speak out. Some of the project's biggest backers are already hesitating – if we make sure top decision-makers hear survivors' stories, they could pull the plug on Total's blood gas project for good. | | | Dear friends, | | A brave survivor shared his story, risking his life so the world would know the truth about the massacre at Total's gas site: | | | The day that I was taken, my father was captured, and he was shot and beheaded.
We were put immediately into the containers. All the people were taken there. We were separated into groups: one group for women, another group for children, and the other group for the men.
After a certain point, we never got food. People would faint because the containers were very, very hot. They couldn't breathe properly. No food. No water to drink. And being beaten.
It was the army who mistreated us. It was the army who killed us. | | The US and other big backers of Total's project are already hesitant to keep investing – we need to make sure they hear these chilling stories and stop financing blood gas for good.Total claims it had no knowledge of the massacre at its gas site, because a local insurgency forced them to evacuate. But when they hired the infamously abusive Mozambican military to secure it, Total's own counsel and auditors warned the oil major risked complicity in any atrocities committed by the soldiers. The only reason we even know about this massacre is because brave survivors risked their lives to speak to an investigative reporter. After months of torture, of licking condensation from the roof of containers for water, they narrowly escaped death – only to be told they'd be killed if they talked. Now it's up to us to make sure the governments bankrolling Total's operations with billions of dollars can't ignore these survivors, starting with the US, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK. So here's the plan: Avaaz is working with allies in the region and in key capitals, who will take our call straight to the government agencies backing Total's development. All we need is to make it as big as possible: add your name now and share with everyone you know. | | | | For too long, fossil fuel corporations have escaped accountability for wrecking our climate and silencing activists around the world. But the tide is turning, and we're doing our part. When Total tried to build the world's longest heated oil pipeline in neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda, over a million of us signed a petition against EACOP, and our call has already pushed some of Total's biggest funders to back out. Let's do it again, by pushing back against this blood gas project, and let's keep standing up against fossil giants profiting from the destruction of our planet.
With hope and fierce determination,
John, Marco, Joana, Parker, Nate and the whole Avaaz team
PS: We've kept most of this brave survivor's story as it was told, but we anonymized it to ensure their safety, and edited it down for brevity. | | | | | | |
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