Myanmar: Is the Burmese Ruby the New Blood Diamond?

Feb 4, 2018 | Panna Munyal, National
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A piece by SumOfUS argues that luxury brands must stop dealing in gems from Myanmar – the Southeast Asian country known for its high-quality rubies. The reason? Funds from the mining industry are, in part, controlled by and distributed to the country’s military, which has been accused of committing horrific atrocities against the country’s Muslim minority – crimes that the United Nations has gone on record to call “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.