Myanmar: Hydropower and the Cost of Life


Jun 30, 2016 | Connor Macdonald, Al Jazeera
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More than 8,000 people from 23 villages were forcibly displaced by the Thein Sein government during the construction of the Upper Paunglaung Dam, which began in 2006. Relocation has led to poverty, hunger and suicides among the thousands who live in the government-built relocation sites.