27 Nov 2012
Protesters who have been affected by the
controversial Monywa copper mine say
they won’t leave until the Chinese
financed project is stopped.
The construction for the mine has recently started
in Lapadaung Mountains,
near Monywa, in Upper Burma. The investors - a joint
venture between China’s
Wan Bao Company and military-owned Union of Myanmar
Economic Holdings Ltd
(UMEHL) - have been accused of destroying crop fields and
Buddhist shrines,
polluting clean water sources, and seizing 3,150 hectares of
land
from the surrounding villages.
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