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Source/publisher: Various sources via Google
Date of entry/update: 2012-12-14
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Category: Copper mining
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Description: About 420,000 results (10 December 2017)
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Date of entry/update: 2017-12-10
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Description: "Nearly 200 villagers in the copper mining area of northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region staged a protest on Monday against a Chinese-backed company that they claim has not paid them reasonable compensation after seizing their farmland for a mining project, locals said. Residents of Kankone village in Salingyi township marched from their community to the entrance of a compound owned by Myanmar Yang Tse Copper Ltd. and demanded payment for more than 2,000 acres of land and the right to use water from the Chindwin River, they said. The residents say the company has confiscated farmland near two mountains for its Sabetaung and Kyisintaung (S&K) mining operations and has restricted public access to the Chindwin River since the military-backed government under former president Thein Sein (2011-2015). “We have been promised that we would receive compensation for the farmland since 2015,” said protest organizer Tint Aung Soe. “The company also issued an official notice,” he said. “They have agreed to pay compensation, and the government said it is ready to help. If they don’t give us the compensation as they have stated, we will keep holding protests across the region.” Though the company has agreed to pay local residents, it is not willing to compensate them at the rate they demand, which has delayed the resolution of the issue, he said..."
Source/publisher: RFA (USA)
2019-12-30
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-05
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Description: "The Sagaing regional government in northwestern Myanmar on Monday cancelled permission for a Chinese company to conduct inspections for a new copper mine project following a protest by local residents in the capital Monywa. Hundreds of local residents staged a morning protest opposing the granting of permission for Chinese company Myanmar Yang Tse Copper Ltd. to do ground studies for a proposed project in the Wazeintaung area of Yinmabin township. Chinese-operated copper mine projects in the resource-rich region have generated controversy among locals, especially in the town of Letpadaung where China’s Wanbao Mining Copper Ltd. and the Myanmar military-owned conglomerate, Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd. (UMEHL), operate a large mine. Letpadaung residents and farmers have accused the Chinese operators of appropriating their land without providing adequate compensation and damaging the environment. The Sagaing government informed the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation in Naypyidaw that it did not object to the company’s conduct a ground inspection for the new mining project. Soe Oo, Sagaing’s minister for planning and finance, told RFA’s Myanmar Service that officials held an emergency meeting on the issue amid the protest..."
Source/publisher: "Radio Free Asia (RFA)" (USA)
2019-09-30
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-01
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Description: "As Western governments weigh sanctions in punitive response to Myanmar’s recent rash of rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities, China is taking full advantage of the country’s new era of international isolation to seek out new investment opportunities. Myanmar Yang Tse Copper Limited, a subsidiary of the Beijing-based Wanbao Mining Limited, is now reportedly pursuing permission to carry out ground inspections for a possible copper mining site in a 100,000-acre large area in Monywa, west of the central city of Mandalay..."
Creator/author: Bertil Lintner.
Source/publisher: "Asia Times"
2018-12-05
Date of entry/update: 2018-12-06
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Copper mining
Language: English
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Description: Conclusions: "Amnesty International?s latest research shows that hundreds of people close to the giant Letpadaung mine continue to face the risk of forced eviction from their farmland, and in the case of four villages, from their homes as well. In addition, thousands of people living in the area are at risk from Myanmar Wanbao?s inadequate management of environmental risk at the Letpadaung mine, which is situated in a flood and earthquake-prone area. The ESIA for the mine contains fundamental gaps and weaknesses, which Myanmar Wanbao has still not addressed. In 2015, Amnesty International concluded that the Myanmar government must halt the development of the Letpadaung mine until the human rights and environmental concerns were addressed. In May 2016 the mine began producing copper, but those human rights and environmental concerns have still not been addressed. Amnesty International is repeating its call therefore for the mine?s operations to be suspended, while these concerns are dealt with. Amnesty International is also repeating its call for the government of Myanmar to urgently act to prevent human rights abuses at the Letpadaung and S&K mines and provide effective remedy for the human rights abuses that people there have already suffered. The authorities must stop using draconian laws to charge and harass villagers participating in peaceful protests against the mine project. More broadly, the Myanmar government needs to strengthen the legal framework, to improve the regulation of large projects, such as mines, and put in place an adequate framework for land acquisition that is based on international standards on the right to adequate housing and the prohibition of forced evictions. Both the government of Myanmar and Myanmar Wanbao must also ensure an effective remedy for the human rights abuses that people there have already suffered. Foreign corporations doing business, or planning to do business, in Myanmar have a responsibility to ensure that their investments do not result in human rights abuses. All foreign corporations should conduct human rights due diligence on their planned business activities in Myanmar in line with international standards. The home state governments of companies investing in Myanmar, including China, which is the home state of Myanmar Wanbao, must ensure that their companies conduct human rights due diligence..."
Source/publisher: Amnesty International (ASA 16/5564/2017)
2017-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2017-02-10
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Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: Executive Summary: "This report is the culmination of a one year investigation by Amnesty International into alleged human rights abuses by companies, including multinational companies, operating in Myanmar. The report focuses on the Monywa copper mine project and highlights forced evictions, substantial environmental and social impacts, and the repression, sometimes brutal, of those who try to protest. It also raises serious questions about opaque corporate dealings and possible infringements of economic sanctions on Myanmar. The report calls on the Government of Myanmar to urgently introduce strong measures for the protection of human rights, and on multinational companies and the home governments of those companies to ensure that due diligence is carried out to international standards for all investment in Myanmar...This report examines the issues in relation to one major mining operation - the Monywa project - made up of the Sabetaung and Kyisintaung (S&K) and the Letpadaung copper mines. During an extensive one-year investigation, Amnesty International examined incidents that are specific to the Monywa project as well as some of the wider structural issues ? such as the processes for acquisition of land and environmental protection ? that will affect other extractive projects in Myanmar. The organization found that, since its inception and throughout its various changes in ownership, the Monywa project has been characterised by serious human rights abuses and a lack of transparency. Thousands of people have been forcibly evicted by the government with the knowledge, and in some cases the participation, of foreign companies. Environmental impacts have been poorly assessed and managed, with grave long-term implications for the health and livelihoods of people living near the mine. Protests by communities have been met with excessive force by police...".....CONCLUSION: The Government of Myanmar is responsible for the serious human rights violations that have taken place at the Monywa project over many years. It has forcibly evicted people and has failed to put in place safeguards to protect mine-affected communities from environmental pollution which can im- pact their rights to water and health, amongst other rights. It has shown an unwillingness to monitor corporate activity or to hold companies accountable for the harm their operations cause. The companies involved also bear responsibility. Despite a history of human rights violations sur- rounding the mine, a Canadian company, and subsequently a Chinese company, have invested without undertaking appropriate due diligence to ensure that past abuses were remediated and future abuses prevented. They have profited from abuses that they knew or should have known were happening, and have, in certain cases, themselves abused rights by participating in forced evictions or failing to remediate environmental pollution. The system that enabled the transfer of the Monywa project to a business venture that involved My- anmar military interests, without any transparency as to how such a sale occurred, is emblematic of the lack of accountability that exists around allocations of concessions and contracts in the extractive industry in Myanmar. The people of Myanmar must not see a resource curse unfold as it has done in so many other countries where powerful economic interests profit from a context in which regulation is weak, the government is unwilling to hold powerful political interests accountable and there is little or no transparency. The home states of multinational corporations must ensure that these corporations do not unjustly enrich themselves at the expense of Myanmar?s poorest people. The home states of companies involved in the Monywa project ? Canada and China ? have failed to do this...".....The report also contains critical analyses of Myanmar?s land legislation.
Source/publisher: Amnesty International
2015-02-10
Date of entry/update: 2015-02-11
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Description: "Plans for the development of the Letpadaung copper mine in Sagaing Region pose a serious threat of human rights abuses and environmental risk, Amnesty International said in a statement on Thursday. Ahead of the two-year anniversary of a violent attack on protestors, Amnesty drew also attention to the fact that no one has been brought to account for the incident. At least 99 monks and nine other protestors were injured in the attack, with many suffering permanent scarring and injuries from white phosphorous burns, the use of which is prohibited by international weapons conventions. ?Two years after this brutal attack, it is completely unacceptable that the scores of people injured while protesting are still waiting for justice and reparations,” said Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty International?s director of global issues..."
Creator/author: Sean Gleeson
Source/publisher: Amnesty International via "The Irrawaddy"
2014-11-28
Date of entry/update: 2014-12-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Copper mining
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Description: "Reporters learned from Wanbao Mining Myanmar Copper LTD recently that the Letpadaung copper mine project jointly financed by China and Myanmar has resumed orderly development and begun to move forward. At the same time, the ?unemployment assistance plan” has received a positive response from local villagers..."
Source/publisher: "People?s Daily" (unofficial translation)
2014-11-29
Date of entry/update: 2014-12-21
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Category: Copper mining
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Description: "...The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously issued a statement on the ongoing targeting and arrests of activists and farmers opposed to the expansion of an army-backed copper mining operation in the Letpadaung Hills of Sagaing Region (AHRC-STM-108-2013). In this appeal we bring you the full details of the numerous charges brought against one of those activists, Ko Aung Soe, who was arrested with two other persons for working with farmers organising against the mining operation. Aung Soe has now been sentenced to eleven-and-a-half years in jail in patently unfair trials that closely resemble those of the decades of military rule in Burma..."
Source/publisher: Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
2013-08-12
Date of entry/update: 2013-08-12
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Description: "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)
2013-07-16
Date of entry/update: 2013-08-10
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Description: The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns in the strongest terms the announcement of the commander of the Sagaing Region Police Force, Myanmar, that the police will arrest and charge eight human rights defenders whom it blames for inciting protests against the army-backed copper mine project at the Letpadaung Hills, in Monywa. The commission also condemns the latest round of needless police violence against demonstrators there.
Source/publisher: Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
2013-04-29
Date of entry/update: 2013-04-29
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Description: "(Hong Kong, April 10, 2013) A Burma-based lawyers group has released its findings on the Letpadaung land struggle in English. The 39-page illustrated report was submitted by the Lawyers Network (Myanmar) and the Justice Trust in February to the government?s investigation commission into events at Letpadaung, recounts the land struggle and subsequent crackdown on protestors. The Asian Human Rights Commission said that the report offered further evidence to support arguments that the mining operation ought to be halted, and criminal actions brought against police and other officials responsible for orders to disperse protestors through the use of incendiary weapons. "It is alarming that despite having such evidence available to it, not only did the investigation commission endorse the continuation of the mining project, but also said literally nothing about the criminal responsibility of the police and other authorities involved in the brutal attack on peaceful demonstrators," Bijo Francis, acting executive director of the Hong Kong-based regional rights group, said. .."
Source/publisher: Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
2013-04-10
Date of entry/update: 2013-04-11
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Description: Submission of evidence by Lawyers Network and Justice Trust to the Letpadaung Investigation Commission...(Submitted 28 January, 2013, re-submitted with exhibits 5 February, 2013)...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "The evidence submitted in this report covers two main issues: 1) the circumstances and validity of contracts signed by local villagers in April 2011 to allow their farmlands to be used by a copper mining joint venture between Wanbao, a Chinese military-owned company, and U Paing, a Burmese military-owned company, and 2) the circumstances and validity of the police action used to disperse peaceful protesters at the copper mine site during the early morning hours of 29 November, 2013. This submission presents relevant laws and facts concerning the Letpadaung case; it does not draw legal conclusions or make specific policy recommendations. The evidence indicates that local government authorities, acting on behalf of the joint venture companies, used fraudulent means to coerce villagers to sign contracts against their will, and then refused to allow villagers and monks to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful assembly and protest. The evidence also indicates that police used military-issue white-phosphorus (WP) grenades (misleadingly termed smoke bombs) combined with water cannons to destroy the protest camps and injure well over 100 monks with severe, deep chemical burns. White phosphorus spontaneously ignites in air to produce burning phosphorous pentoxide particles and, when combined with water, super-heated phosphoric acid..."
Source/publisher: Lawyers Network and Justice Trust via AHRC
2013-02-14
Date of entry/update: 2013-04-11
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Description: "The Asian Human Rights Commission has since mid-2012 closely followed, documented and reported on the struggle of farmers in the Letpadaung Hills of central Burma against the expansion of a copper mining operation under a military-owned holding company and a partner company from China. After repeatedly being refused permission to demonstrate against the operation under the terms of the country?s new antidemocratic public demonstration law, the farmers began public protests, which were met with a range of repressive measures, culminating in the night time attack on encamped protestors last November. The attack received international media coverage because the police fired white phosphorous into the protest camps causing extensive burns to protestors, the majority of them monks who had joined villagers in resistance to the mine project. In recent months two reports have been issued, in Burmese, on the struggle against the mine. The reports make interesting reading because they represent very different perspectives and understandings of the issues for the affected villagers in Letpadaung. One is the official report of an investigative commission headed by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, published in the 12 March 2013 edition of the state newspaper. The other is an unofficial report by the 88 Students Generation group and the Lawyers Network, Upper Burma, issued before the official report, on 21 January 2013. Whereas the latter report represents a genuine effort to identify the causes for the opposition to the mine and speak to the human rights questions concerned with events in Letpadaung of 2012, the former is little more than an exercise in playing at politics, and an attempt to sidestep and obfuscate the questions of human rights involved through the use of "information" that conceals more than it reveals..."
Source/publisher: Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
2013-04-03
Date of entry/update: 2013-04-03
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Language: English
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Description: စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး မုံရွာခရိုင်၊ ဆားလင်းကြီးမြို့နယ် လက်ပန်တောင်းတောင် ကြေးနီစီမံကိန်း စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေး ကော်မရှင်၏ အပြီးသတ်အစီရင်ခံစာ ... နိဒါန်း ၁။ ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၃ ရက်တွင် ကျင်းပသော ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် အစည်းအဝေး၌တင်သွင်းခဲ့သည့် အရေးကြီးအဆိုတွင် စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေ သကြီး မုံရွာခရိုင် ဆားလင်းကြီးမြို့နယ် လက်ပန်တောင်းတောင် ကြေးနီစီမံကိန်းနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ ကြေးနီမိုင်းလုပ်ငန်း ဆက်လက်ဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့်ပြုရန် သင့်မသင့် စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေး ကော်မရှင်ကို ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်၊ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံးမှ အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၉၅/၂၀၁၂) အရ ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၃ ရက်နေ့တွင် ဥက္ကဋ္ဌအပါအဝင် အဖွဲ့ဝင် ၁၆ ဦးဖြင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပေးခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၂။ စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေးကော်မရှင်အဖွဲ့ဝင်များသည် စီမံကိန်းနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ ကျေးရွာလူထု ခံစားနေရသည့် ပြည်သူ့အသံများအပါအဝင် စီမံကိန်းနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် အချက်အလက်များကို စုံစမ်းပြီး သုံးသပ်ချက်နှင့်တကွ တင်ပြနိုင်ရန် အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ ဖွဲ့စည်းဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။
Source/publisher: Letpadaung Investigation Commission via Burma Partnership
2013-03-12
Date of entry/update: 2013-03-24
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Category: Copper mining
Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Description: "Freedom of speech will struggle to flourish in Myanmar as its economic interests are dominated by powerful neighbours...The protesters were given five minutes to leave. Police surrounded their camp close to the Letpadaung copper mine in northern Myanmar in the early hours of Thursday, armed with loudspeakers, water cannons and warnings of attack. First came the water, the force of which swept away dozens of flimsy structures used to shelter hundreds of Myanmarese angered at the damage wrought over more than a decade by the country?s largest copper mine. What came next however struck fear into the heart of Myanmar?s nascent environmental movement. Plumes of fire lit up the night sky as police and riot control units shot incendiary bombs into the clusters of tents. "They fired 10 rounds; five at a time," one protester told the Democratic Voice of Burma. "And the sparks that landed on people?s clothing couldn?t be shaken off; they burst into flames when they attempted to do so." Images that emerged following the crackdown showed hospital wards filled with burn victims - men, women and Buddhist monks. "I?d prefer to be dead now than suffering [from the burns] - the pain is too unbearable," a monk said. The brutality of the incident conjures memories of September 2007, when hundreds of pro-democracy protesters were shot dead by Myanmar troops. That crackdown was congruent with the reputation of the military junta that ruled Myanmar at the time. But 18 months into its experiment with democracy and wildly contradicting the progressive rhetoric of President Thein Sein, the attack last week has left many questioning the earnestness of the reforms. Moreover, the involvement of police, who operate under the auspices of the president, has cast a shadow over a leader preparing to accept a number of top peace awards. The Letpadaung incident goes beyond a simple bid to stifle dissent. While environmental damage and grievances over the confiscation of 7,800 acres of land were the key focus of the resistance to the mine, in the government?s eye, these protests marked the intersection at which three hugely sensitive issues meet: The public?s ability to exercise freedom of speech, China?s influence over Myanmar and vested military interests in the country?s natural resources. Put together, they indicate that at the core of government, there still exists the same fear over the standing of the elite that fuelled abuses by Myanmar?s former rulers. Days into the protests, Aung Min, one of President Thein Sein?s top cabinet members, was caught on camera saying that the mine would stay open because, "We are afraid of China"..."
Creator/author: FRANCIS WADE
Source/publisher: AL Jazeera
2012-12-04
Date of entry/update: 2012-12-05
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Category: Copper mining
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Description: "...The ceremony was opened with the recitation of Namo Tasa three times. Next, Commander of Sagaing Region Police Force Police Col San Yu supplicated the matters regarding the ongoing situations stemming from Latpadaungtaung copper mine project in Salingyi Township of Monywa District and religious matters. Please accept my apology. We are very disheartened by injuries of monks in the crackdown of boycott camps in Latpadaungtaung project in Salingyi Township..."
Source/publisher: "The New Light of Myanmar"
2012-12-02
Date of entry/update: 2012-12-02
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Category: Copper mining
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Description: Security forces used a water cannon and other weapons to end the three-month protest, injuring 10 monks, two critically. Riot police fired water cannons and tear gas to break up a three-month protest against a vast copper mining project run by Myanmar?s powerful military and its partner, a subsidiary of a Chinese arms manufacturer.
Source/publisher: Al Jazeera
2012-11-29
Date of entry/update: 2012-11-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Copper mining
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Description: "More than 1,000 people demanding the closure of a copper mining project in the Letpadaung mountain range, Sagaing Division, held yet another demonstration in front of the company?s headquarters in Monywa?s Salingyi Township. Protesters have been disrupting project work since Sunday by linking arms and blocking the path of trucks and vehicles at the construction site while security officials looked on. Local residents and environmental activists have taken up two separate positions—a large gathering in front of the Myanmar-Wanbao Mining Company office on the Monywa-Pathein Road, and a smaller event at the Lelti Sayadaw Buddhist Building near Kyawyar Village, around five miles away from the protester?s main camp..."
Creator/author: "The Irawaddy"
Source/publisher: Nyein Nyein
2012-11-20
Date of entry/update: 2012-11-20
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Copper mining
Language: English
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