Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2000: Tourism and human rights violations - The Than Daung Gyi Project

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Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2000: Tourism and human rights violations - The Than Daung Gyi Project

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"In the beginning of 2000 the Than Daung Gyi tourist project, which the SPDC had originally hoped to build for ?Visit Myanmar Year 1996", was revived... the military confiscated the land, including the tea, coffee and dogfruit crops of the villagers,relocated the villagers, and began construction on new buildings. They have also started digging the town road...Villagers in the Ker Weh area have been forced to clear the way for the bulldozers and to dig out any big stones. They are not paid for the work, nor are they given any food..."

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NCGUB Human Rights Documentation Unit: "Human Rights Yearbook Burma (Myanmar) 2000"

Date of Publication: 

2001-10-00

Date of entry: 

2003-06-03

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English

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