Myanmar: Myanmar Villagers Protest Chinese Plans for Land along Pipeline Route

Apr 5, 2019 | Radio Free Asia
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Burmese farmers barred for five years from planting crops along the route of a Chinese oil and gas line are protesting new requests by an affiliate of the pipeline company to take control of the adjoining land once restrictions end, sources in Myanmar say. Completed in 2012, the pipeline built by the Chinese state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and its Myanmar partner, runs from the port of Kyaukpyu in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state to China’s southern city of Kunming.