News: (1) 1700 villagers join antielection protests in Karen; and Mon State (2) Expansion of militia and civilian strike groups at cost to villagers prior to election... Commentary: The New Civil War and Human Rights after Elections... Report: Waiting in Tears: Impacts of impending cement factory development in Kyaikmayaw Township:- Farms to Factory; Impact; Dirty Money; Essential for Life; Loss of Culture; Resistance; Conclusion..... Summary: Local communities in Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State are facing the immanent threat of land seizer by local authorities, for the construction of a large scale cement factory and processing plant for the limestone from a nearby mountain. Nearly 600 acres of paddy land have already been surveyed for construction. The community, which is heavily dependent on the surrounding farmland passed on from generation to generation, has received no opportunity for input in the project, and only paltry warning of an impending ?State? ordered seizer of its land. The project will have severe environmental impacts as it calls for the leveling of Ni Don mountain, the construction of a processing plant and factory, and construction of secondary infrastructure such as roads and a jetty into the nearby river. The company spearheading the cement plant construction is predominantly controlled by key members of the regime-backed political party the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). Profits form the completed cement factory will be used to finance the government-backed USDP. In addition, the mountain is home to significant sacred Buddhist sites, relics, and cave paintings and drawings, which will be lost as the mountain is destroyed.