" The struggle of farmers and their allies in the Letpadaung Hills of central Myanmar against the expansion of a copper mining operation under a military-owned holding company and a partner company from China obtained international attention when in the early morning hours of 29 November 2012 paramilitary police launched a night time attack on encamped protestors. The attack received interna tional media coverage because the police fired white phosphorous into the protest cam ps that caused extensive burns to protestors, the majority of them Buddhist monks who had joined villagers in resistance to the mine project...".....Written NGO statement to the 23th Session of UN Human Rights Council.