Myanmar: ‘Afraid of the Gun’: Military Coup Fuels Myanmar Resource Grab

Dec 14, 2022 | Emily Fishbein and Nu Nu Lusan, Al Jazeera
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Over the past year and a half, however, the issue has been eclipsed by a more immediate threat: gold mining. The industry has cleared trees, eroded land and riverbanks, and polluted waterways with sediment and mercury across Myanmar’s north for the past two decades. Since the military coup, however, gold mining has reached unprecedented levels, local activists say.