"The Mon Forum" No. 1/2006 (January 2006)

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Local authority bans Mon National Day signboards; SPDC Restriction against Mon National Day; Environment and National Resource Issues In Mon Areas:- Background of Mon people, Natural Resources and Environment; Extraction of National Resources during SLORC Era; Current Situation Related to National Resources and Environment: I. Land confiscation by Burmese Army; II. Kanbauk-Myaingkalay Gas Pipeline; III. Displaced communities and slash and burnt cultivation method...Actions: Reporting and advocacy; Impact assessment on Salween Dam; Environmental education; Property rights' campaign...Exploitation of Natural Resources and the suffering of civilians in the Southern Burma: I. The Exploitation of Natural Resource; II. The Summary of the Effects of the Regime's Gas pipelines: A. From Yatana Gas Pipeline; LIB/IB No. Locations; B. From Kanbauk-Myaingkalav Gas Pipeline...III. Providing forced security, unpaid labor and taxation in gas pipeline areas: Security for Yatana Gas Pipeline; Porter Service by Gas Pipeline Security Troops...IV. Impact to Environment: Gas Leaks in Mon Area...V. Logging in Mon State and Tenasserim Division: A. Logging on the rise in Mon area; B. Troops earn money by making charcoal; C. Logging by a pro-SPDC armed group in the Mon area.

Source/publisher: 

Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)

Date of Publication: 

2006-01-31

Date of entry: 

2006-07-08

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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