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HRW: Burmese Army Committing Abuses in Kachin State

HRW: Burmese Army Committing Abuses in Kachin State

Human Rights Watch conducted a fact-finding mission to the conflict areas in Kachin State in July and August, visiting abandoned villages and eight remote camps of internally displaced persons. Witnesses described se ...

China’s Forbidden News: China Angry over Myitsone Dam
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China’s Forbidden News: China Angry over Myitsone Dam

A report by China's Forbidden News on the Chinese response to Myanmar president Thein Sein's decision to halt construction of the Myitsone mega-dam project... ...

BBC: Burmese Government Halts Controversial Dam Project

BBC: Burmese Government Halts Controversial Dam Project

In a rare concession, the Burmese government has suspended a long planned and highly controversial hydroelectric dam project in the face of growing public opposition. ...

Brazil will treat its indigenous peoples like Australia treated the Aboriginals

Brazil will treat its indigenous peoples like Australia treated the Aboriginals

In the same interview, regarding the impacts of the planned Belo Monte dam on tribal people in the Amazon, Trennepohl stated that his role was not to look after the environment, rather to ‘minimize the impacts. ...

China’s Kachin Crime

China’s Kachin Crime

"One of Burma’s largest rebel groups could fall, the Kachin people could be left to face the junta’s programme of ethnic cleansing and other minority groups would inevitably follow." ...