Myanmar: ‘Weapons, Power and Money’: How Rare Earth Mining in Kachin Enriches a Tatmadaw Ally

Aug 3, 2021 | Juaman Naw, Emily Fishbein, and Ronja Pilgaard, Frontier Myanmar
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The leader of a Tatmadaw-controlled Border Guard Force in a remote region of Kachin State has emerged as a key player in the global rare earth trade, and has turned the territory under his de facto control into a mining hub at a high environmental cost.