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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