Amnesty International
"On 24 March 2015 the President’s office announced that the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for the Letpadaung mine project in Sagaing region, central Myanmar, had been approved. There is therefore a high risk that the mining company Myanmar Wanbao will resume operations to take over land for the project and forcibly evict 196 families who have refused to move and thousands of villagers whose land has not yet been taken over by the company. Myanmar Wanbao is a subsidiary of Chinese company Wanbao Mining.
"On 24 March 2015 the President’s office announced that the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for the Letpadaung mine project in Sagaing region, central Myanmar, had been approved. There is therefore a high risk that the mining company Myanmar Wanbao will resume operations to take over land for the project and forcibly evict 196 families who have refused to move and thousands of villagers whose land has not yet been taken over by the company. Myanmar Wanbao is a subsidiary of Chinese company Wanbao Mining.
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Published on Oct 15, 2014
As
Myanmar opens up to foreign investment after decades of dictatorship, a
big land grab is underway. Companies with ties to the military are
kicking the rural poor aside to get rich — and not sharing much of the
spoils. In Letpadaung, hundreds of farmers have been displaced from
their ancestral villages to make way for a massive, China-backed copper
mining project. But some of them are fighting back. Reporter Jason
Motlagh traveled to Myanmar for AJ+ to find out more.