Myanmar: Myanmar Urged to Review Hydropower Dam Projects Seen Damaging to Rural Communities

Jul 10, 2018 | Radio Free Asia
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The Myanmar government must undertake reforms in its hydropower sector to prevent dam projects from negatively impacting rural ethnic minority communities in southeastern Kayin state, a region wracked by armed conflict where electrification rates are lowest in the nation, according to a report issued by two ethnic Karen NGOs. The 31-page report titled “Development or Destruction? The human rights impact of hydropower development in villages in Southeast Myanmar,” issued in June by the Karen Human Rights Group and Karen Rivers Watch, notes the detrimental effects that proposed dams will have on Karen villagers.