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Come and join our protest:
Balfour Beatty and the Ilisu Dam
at Balfour Beatty’s Annual General Meeting
10am-2pm Wednesday May 2nd 2001
Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, London W2
Balfour Beatty is the UK company which wants to build the Ilisu dam in the Kurdish region of Southeast Turkey. The company has applied to the UK government for $200 million export credit support for the dam contract despite serious concerns over the human rights, social and environmental impacts of the Ilisu project:
- Up to 78,000 people would be affected, the majority of them Kurdish, in an area where human rights abuses are widespread;
- An area the size of Manchester would be flooded, including the ancient city of Hasankeyf, dating back 10,000 years;
- Regional tension could be heightened, as the Ilisu dam would be built on the river Tigris which flows downstream to Syria and Iraq.
Say no to the dam! Say no to Balfour Beatty doing business with a torturing state!
Please join us on Wednesday May 2nd outside the Royal Lancaster Hotel, where Balfour Beatty will be holding their Annual General Meeting. Human rights activists, environmentalists, trade unionists, members of the Kurdish community and Mark Thomas (comedian and activist) will be there… Bring musical instruments, banners, placards – but most importantly, please bring yourself and your friends.
- 10am: meet at Marlborough Gate, Kensington Gardens, opposite Lancaster Gate tube station (Central Line).
- 11am: photocall for the media at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, London W2.
- 12-2pm: AGM protest at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, opposite Lancaster Gate tube station. Peaceful demonstration, music and dancing.
For more information please contact Kate on 01865 200550
The Ilisu Dam Campaign is firmly committed to non-violent principles and we ask that everyone attending the AGM protests respect this: no physical violence (or threat of violence), no verbal abuse and no criminal damage. Thank you!