All Entries Tagged With: "Kachin"
FBR Report – Oct 20, 2009 Environmental Abuses Result in Deaths in Kachin State
FBR REPORT: Environmental Abuses Result in Deaths in Kachin State Karen State, Burma 20 October, 2009 The following is a report by a Free Burma Rangers relief team conducting relief missions in Kachin State, Northern Burma. At the Hpakant Jade Mine in Kachin State Burma mining companies are causing pollution, erosion, and flooding that results [...]
Ryan | Oct 27, 2009 | Comments 0
Introduction To Some Of Burma’s Ethnic Minority Groups
A Closer Look at Burma’s Ethnic Minorities By Hannah Beech / Bangkok Friday, Jan. 30, 2009 Living under the thumb of a brutal junta, the average Burmese hardly leads an easy life. But the plight of the country’s ethnic minorities, many of whom once waged long and bloody insurgencies against the military regime, is even [...]
Ryan | Aug 06, 2009 | Comments 0
