While Burma’s ethnic states are blessed with a wealth of natural resources and biodiversity, they have been cursed by the unsustainable extraction and sale of those resources, which has fuelled armed conflict. In a report launched today, the Burma Environmental Working Group is calling for a halt to natural resource projects in the conflict-torn ethnic states until a Union Peace Accord has been signed and a new federal constitution adopted.
October 24, 2017
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