roadsandkingdoms: Monday in the mine: Gold miners form a human chain to toss large rocks out of a new pit mine near the aborted Myitsone Dam project in northern Burma. In order to force local Kachin villagers to relocate from the dam area, the Myanmar government outlawed private gold mining, instead giving the mining concessions in the area to outside companies. These miners are neither locals nor ethnic Kachins, just miners from other parts of the country brought in to work. Read more about the Myitsone Dam project and its workers, from the R&K backfiles HIGH RES

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Monday in the mine: Gold miners form a human chain to toss large rocks out of a new pit mine near the aborted Myitsone Dam project in northern Burma. In order to force local Kachin villagers to relocate from the dam area, the Myanmar government outlawed private gold mining, instead giving the mining concessions in the area to outside companies. These miners are neither locals nor ethnic Kachins, just miners from other parts of the country brought in to work.

Read more about the Myitsone Dam project and its workers, from the R&K backfiles

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∞  06/12/12 at 10:33am via roadsandkingdoms.com
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