8-Sep-12
A request made by representatives
from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League
for Democracy (NLD) that they be
allowed to collect the bodies left behind by
a massive August 29 explosion at a
mining compound in the jade rich Hpakant
(also Hpakan, Phakant) mining district
in western Kachin State, has been rejected
by the armed wing of the