Dams and other projects on the Paunglaung and its tributories
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
Includes sections on the major rivers of Burma
Source/publisher:
Burma Rivers Network
Date of entry/update:
2012-07-19
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Publications on the environment of Burma/Myanmar, Dams and other projects on the Kaladan and its tributories, Dams and other projects on the Chindwin and its tributories, Dams and other projects on the Irrawaddy and its tributories, Dams and other projects on the Paunglaung and its tributories, Dams and other projects on the Salween and its tributories
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English
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"A group of European and Chinese investors is currently building a dam to power
Burma?s military capital which will force 8,000 mostly indigenous people from their homes by October this year. The
forced relocation will leave villagers destitute: each household must tear down their home and abandon their farm fi elds,
receiving in return just US$50 in compensation. Security for the dam project has led to increased militarization and abuse
of local populations while workers constructing the dam are toiling night and day for a mere US$30 per month.
Dam builders often tout the benefi ts of dams as a key to a country?s development. In Burma, nearly every day statecontrolled
media boasts progress on various dam projects as a sign of success. Yet dam projects in Burma lead to an
increase in militarization, exacerbate ethnic confl ict, and have been linked to forced relocations and forced labor. The
Upper Paunglaung Dam is no exception. Therefore the companies involved in the project must be called on to stop this dam..."
Source/publisher:
Kayan New Generation Youth
Date of publication:
2011-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-03-02
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Individual Documents
Language:
English and Burmese
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Introduction: "For nearly four decades, Myanmar (also known as
Burma) was ruled by military-led governments that
committed grave human rights violations, resulting in
international economic sanctions against the
country for
many years.1 Beginning in 2012, however, after the
liberalization of some governmental policies, Western
nations lifted these sanctions. In an effort to gain
ground on countries like China and India that had
maintained economic ties with Myanmar during the time
of the sanctions, a number of states?including
Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, and many
European countries ?increased development aid and
allowed their businesses to operate in Myanmar for the
first time in decades.
This
investment has been touted as a way to improve
economic conditions for the people of Myanmar, one of
the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, following years
of government mismanagement, corruption, and
economic sanctions that destroyed the country?s
economy.2
While the opening in Myanmar has allowed
foreign investment to soar and made new capital
available for plantations, logging, special economic
zones, deep sea ports, hydroelectric dams, and mining
concessions, all of these types of projects have been
associated with unlawful land confiscations from
individuals and communities with little or no
compensation.
Economic development projects in Myanmar are causing
widespread displacement and are having devastating
impacts on those communities living in project
locations, including human rights violations and adverse
effects on livelihoods, food security, and health. For
those subjected to unlawful evictions
and
land grabs,
the consequences are dire, driving many
people
into
poverty. Government policy has encouraged the
development of these projects, and weak and unclear
land policies, including some new land laws written to
support investment and economic growth, have
provided the government, military, and businesses with
legal cover to confiscate people?s land without a
transparent process for determining and awarding
compensation.
In the following report, Physicians for Human Rights
(PHR) builds on its previous research on land
confiscations in Myanmar by using an epidemiological
survey tool to assess the human rights, livelihood, and
health impacts on communities displaced by the
reservoir created by Paunglaung dam in southern Shan
state..."
Source/publisher:
Physicians for Human Rights
Date of publication:
2015-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2015-10-08
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dams and other projects on the Paunglaung and its tributories, Internal displacement/forced migration of Shan. Palaung and Wa villagers
Language:
English
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"မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် နှစ်ပေါင်း ၄၀ နီးပါး နိုင်ငံတကာ စီးပွားရေးပိတ်ဆို့ခံရသည်အထိ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သော စစ်တပ်ဦးစီးသည့်အစိုးရအုပ်ချုပ်မှုလက်အောက်တွင် ကျရောက်ခဲ့သည်။
သို့သော် ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် နှစ်ဦးပိုင်း၌ အစိုးရ၏မူဝါဒအချို့အား ဖြေလျော့ပြီးနောက်ပိုင်းတွင် အနောက်နိုင်ငံများမှ ထိုပိတ်ဆို့မှုများအား ပြန်လည်ဖွင့်လှစ်ပေးခဲ့သည်။
နိုင်ငံအတွင်းပိတ်ဆို့မှုများပြုလုပ်ထားသည့်အချိန်တွင် စီးပွားရေးအရ နှစ်နိုင်ငံဆက်ဆံမှုများ ဆက်လက်တည်ရှိနေခဲ့သည့်တရုတ်နိုင်ငံနှင့် အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံများကဲ့သို့ပင် သြစတြေးလျ၊ ကနေဒါ၊ ဂျပန်၊ အမေရိကန်နှင့် ဥရောပတိုက်ရှိနိုင်ငံများသည် ဤနိုင်ငံအတွင်း အခြေတည်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် ဆယ်စုနှစ်များအတွင်း ပထမဆုံးအဖြစ် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုဆိုင်ရာအထောက်အကူပစ္စည်းများအား တိုးမြှင့်ပံ့ပိုးခဲ့ပြီး ၎င်းတို့၏စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများကို လည်ပတ်စေရန် ခွင့်ပြုခဲ့သည်။"
Source/publisher:
Physicians for Human Rights
Date of publication:
2015-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2015-10-08
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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