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Guarding Profits Not Lives

September 2, 2020

On July 2, 2020, about 300 mine workers died in a deadly landslide…

Silent Offensive: How Burma Army Strategies are Fuelling the Kachin Drug Crisis

October 10, 2014

This report, based on interviews with Kachin drug users, their…

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The Burmese military has ruled and waged civil war within the territory of the union of Burma for many decades. As a result, Kachin and non-Burman ethnicities have been enduring severe hardship, such as impoverishment, and lack of access to health and education. In 1994, a ceasefire agreement was signed between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO/A) and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), but did not lead to any political negotiation. Instead, the SPDC took advantage of the agreement to start large-scale extraction of natural resources from the territory of Kachin State.

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