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We Used to Fear Bullets Now We Fear Bulldozers

By Dawei Development Association, Tenasserim River & Indigenous People Networks and Tarkapaw Youth Group  •  October 30, 2015

In Yangon today, three Dawei-based civil society organizations launched a new report, based on more than two years of research and community-engagement, condemning the destructive coal mine at Ban Chaung. The report, Ban chaung coal mining report 2015 – English, documents the devastating impact that coal mining has had on the local environment, community health, traditional livelihoods, and unique indigenous way of life in this recent conflict-zone in Tanintharyi Region of Southern Myanmar, and also raises warning flags about how large-scale mining projects in Maynmar are permitted and regulated. It was published jointly by the Tarkapaw Youth Group, Dawei Development Association (DDA), and the Tenasserim River & Indigenous People Networks (TRIP NET).

 

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ရပ္ရြာအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ထိေတြ႕ဆက္ဆံၿပီး ၂ ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ၾကာသုေတသနျပဳထားခ်က္မ်ားကုိအေျချပဳေရးသားထားေသာအစီရင္ခံစာသစ္ တစ္ရပ္ကုိ ထား၀ယ္ အရပ္ဘက္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းသုံးခုကယေန႔ ရန္ကုန္တြင္ ထုတ္ျပန္လုိက္ရင္းပ်က္စီးရာပ်က္စီးေၾကာင္းျဖစ္ေစေသာဘန္းေခ်ာင္းရွိေက်ာက္မီးေသြးတြင္းကုိရႈပ္ခ်လိုက္သည္။ “က်ည္ဆံေတြကုိေၾကာက္လန္႔ခဲ့ရဖူးတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ဘူဒုိဇာေတြကုိေၾကာက္ေနရၿပီ”အမည္ရအစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ မၾကာေသးမီအထိပဋိပကၡနယ္ေျမျဖစ္ခဲ့ဖူးေသာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေတာင္ပုိင္းတနသၤာရီတုိင္းေဒသႀကီးအတြင္းရွိအဆုိပါ ေက်ာက္မီးေသြးတြင္းေၾကာင့္ ေဒသခံမ်ား၏ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္၊ က်န္းမာေရး၊ ရုိးရာအသက္ေမြးမႈမ်ား၊ ဌာေနတုိင္းရင္းသားတုိ႔၏ သီးျခားလူေနမႈဘ၀ဟန္ပန္မ်ား ထိခုိက္ဖ်က္ဆီးခံရျခင္းတုိ႔အေၾကာင္းမွတ္တမ္းျပဳစုထားသည္။ ယင္းအျပင္ ထုိအႀကီးစားေက်ာက္မီးေသြးတြင္းကုိခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ေပးထားပုံ၊ စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းခ် စီမံကြပ္ကဲေနပုံတုိ႔အေပၚလည္းေမးခြန္းထုတ္ သတိေပးထားသည္။ အစီရင္ခံစာကုိတာကေပါလူငယ္အဖြဲ႕၊ ထား၀ယ္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးအဖြဲ႕ (DDA)၊ တနသၤာရီျမစ္မႀကီးႏွင့္ ဌာေနတုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ားကြန္ရက္ (TripNet) တုိ႔ကထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

Tags: Business and Human Rights, Crimes against humanity, Dawei Development Association, Displacement, Environmental and Economic Justice, Human Rights, Tarkapaw Youth Group, Tenasserim River & Indigenous People Networks

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