Myanmar: Extractive Industries Aggravating Local Conflicts, Ethnic Researchers Warn

Oct 25, 2017 | Hein Ko Soe, Frontier Myanmar
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Ethnic minority researchers have called on the government to halt and review planned natural resource extraction projects in minority areas to avoid further conflicts with communities. The Burma Environmental Working Group released its research on the decentralisation process between Union and sub-national governments yesterday. The group spent two years examining conflict over land, forest, water, coal, jade, and oil and gas resources across Kayin, Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states.