Myanmar: Pearl Farm Plan Could Spell Doom for Myanmar’s Nomadic ‘Sea Gypsies’

Nov 12, 2019 | Radio Free Asia
View Original

The seafaring livelihoods of Myanmar’s “sea gypsies,” a nomadic ethnic group also known as Moken or Salone in Burmese, are being threatened by a plan to expand pearl farming in an archipelago they inhabit off the Southeast Asian country’s southern coast, members of the ethnic group and a village official said.