Myanmar: Myanmar Marchers Seek Cancellation of Chinese-backed Dam Project

Mar 24, 2014 | South China Morning Post
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Dozens of protesters began a 2,400-kilometre march yesterday to northern Myanmar, calling for the cancellation of a Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam project over environmental concerns.

The US$3.6 billion dam along the Irrawaddy River was supposed to export about 90 per cent of the electric power it generated to neighbouring China, but President Thein Sein's government ordered it to be suspended in 2011, saying it went "against the will of the people".