Resistance Forces Launch Attacks Against Sagaing Govt Offices
Hundreds of Kachin nationalities have demanded the closure of a rare earth mine planned by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) in Momauk Township. Nearly 200 villagers from N'ba Pa protested at the location of the
After last year's coup, Burma has become the world's largest supplier of rare earths. According to a six-month report by Global Witness, which tracked the toxic mining of the mineral needed for computers and most
The Laymai People's Militia Force (PMF) has been turning away workers who are desperate enough to pay exorbitant quarantine fees as a condition of working in their rare earth mines, while local residents fear the
