Myanmar: Villagers Continue Protests against Myitsone

May 1, 2017 | Mark Inkey, Frontier
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More than five years after it was suspended by the U Thein Sein administration, villagers displaced by the controversial Myitsone Dam project are urging the government to prevent it from going ahead. On March 14, to commemorate the International Day of Action for Rivers 2017, a protest of 300 people was held at the Myitsone confluence, where the Mali and N’Mai rivers join to form the Ayeyarwady River. The proposed site for Myitsone is a few miles downstream from the confluence, which will be flooded if the project goes ahead, and about 30 miles (48 kilometres) north of Myitkyina, the Kachin State capital.