Forced Displacements and Destroyed Lives around Upper Paunglaung Dam in Shan State, Myanmar
Publisher: Physicians for Human Rights
Author(s): Widney Brown
Date: 2015
Topics: Economic Recovery, Land, Livelihoods
Countries: Myanmar
For nearly four decades, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was ruled by military-led governments that committed grave human rights violations, resulting in international economic sanctions against the country for many years. Beginning in 2012, however, after the liberalization of some governmental policies, Western nations lifted these sanctions. In an effort to gain ground on countries like China and India that had maintained economic ties with Myanmar during the time of the sanctions, a number of states – including Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, and many European countries – increased development aid and allowed their businesses to operate in Myanmar for the first time in decades.