Mergui-Tavoy Photo Set: Dam, logging and mining operations negatively impact communities in K?Ser Doh Township, January to April 2012

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"This photo set includes 49 still photographs selected from images taken by a KHRG community member between January and April 2012. They were taken in K?Ser Doh Township, Mergui-Tavoy District, and show images of a dam project in A?Nyah Pyah, logging in A?Nya Pyah, U Yay Kyee and Htee Ler Klay villages and mining operations in Hkay Ta Hpoo that have caused a variety of problems for the villagers in the in the areas, such as loss of land from flooding and water pollution. The mining company prevented villagers from protecting themselves from further damage from the chemical flows when they sought to drain a contaminated stream. This photo set was originally published in the appendix of KHRG?s thematic report, Losing Ground: Land confiscation and collective action in eastern Myanmar..."

Source/publisher: 

Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)

Date of Publication: 

2013-07-16

Date of entry: 

2013-08-10

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English

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