First Village Forcibly Relocated For Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam Project


First Village Forcibly Relocated For Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam Project Things at the contentious Irrawaddy Myitsone dam project in northern Burma have come to a head with the Burmese military junta forcibly relocating the first of the ethnic Kachin villages, said village sources. The move comes a day after the Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG) in an open letter to Hu Jintao, President of People’s Republic of China, requested yet again to put a stop to the dam project. He was urged...

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29 May 2010

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