Myanmar: Letpadaung Farmers’ Crop Compensation Demands Denied

Jan 27, 2016 | Thuzar, The Irrawaddy
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The Chinese firm Wanbao’s Burma subsidiary has reportedly told locals in the Letpadaung mine area that it has no plan to compensate them further, after hundreds of would-be farmers sought payment for crops forgone last year due to the project. On Tuesday, responsible officials from Wanbao and Sagaing Division’s security and border affairs minister, Col. Kyaw Thant Naing, told the locals that compensation would not be provided in lieu of the money that a 2015 harvest might have yielded, according to Mar Mar Cho, a resident of Tonywa village.