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MIA FARROW has pulled her retirement fund from investment firm Fidelity after discovering the company has ties with Chinese oil giants which are allegedly funding the genocide in Darfur.
The movie star spent last summer (06) in war-torn Sudan and Chad, photographing refugees and victims of the civil strife for a new book she hopes will heighten awareness about the crisis in Africa.
She was horrified to discover two oil companies are complicit in funding the atrocities - and she has financial ties to a firm linked to them.
She says, "There are two oil companies, Sinopec and PetroChina, pouring billions of dollars into Khartoum, most of which is used in attack helicopters, bomb ships, munitions factories, training and arming the Janjaweed (Arab militia in Darfur).
"The government of Sudan has refused to admit the peacekeepers that the United Nations has been begging them to admit, but China continues business as usual.
"I had some of my pension money in Fidelity, but Fidelity has huge holdings in both Sinopec and PetroChina). So I wrote them a letter saying why I was withdrawing my retirement fund from Fidelity.
"I would beg them to assume the leadership and say Fidelity is now divesting from these companies." (KL&RXM/WN/SH)
(c) 2006 World Entertainment News Network
