Dams and other projects on the Paunglaung and its tributories

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Title: Burma Rivers Network
Description: Includes sections on the major rivers of Burma
Source/publisher: Burma Rivers Network
Date of entry/update: 2012-07-19
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Language: English
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Title: Ordered Out: The Costs of Building Burma?s Upper Paunglaung Dam
Description: "A group of European and Chinese investors is currently building a dam to power Burma?s military capital which will force 8,000 mostly indigenous people from their homes by October this year. The forced relocation will leave villagers destitute: each household must tear down their home and abandon their farm fi elds, receiving in return just US$50 in compensation. Security for the dam project has led to increased militarization and abuse of local populations while workers constructing the dam are toiling night and day for a mere US$30 per month. Dam builders often tout the benefi ts of dams as a key to a country?s development. In Burma, nearly every day statecontrolled media boasts progress on various dam projects as a sign of success. Yet dam projects in Burma lead to an increase in militarization, exacerbate ethnic confl ict, and have been linked to forced relocations and forced labor. The Upper Paunglaung Dam is no exception. Therefore the companies involved in the project must be called on to stop this dam..."
Source/publisher: Kayan New Generation Youth
Date of publication: 2011-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-03-02
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Size: 1.37 MB 1.31 MB
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Title: Forced Displacements and Destroyed Lives around Upper Paunglaung Dam in Shan State, Myanmar
Description: Introduction: "For nearly four decades, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was ruled by military-led governments that committed grave human rights violations, resulting in international economic sanctions against the country for many years.1 Beginning in 2012, however, after the liberalization of some governmental policies, Western nations lifted these sanctions. In an effort to gain ground on countries like China and India that had maintained economic ties with Myanmar during the time of the sanctions, a number of states?including Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, and many European countries ?increased development aid and allowed their businesses to operate in Myanmar for the first time in decades. This investment has been touted as a way to improve economic conditions for the people of Myanmar, one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, following years of government mismanagement, corruption, and economic sanctions that destroyed the country?s economy.2 While the opening in Myanmar has allowed foreign investment to soar and made new capital available for plantations, logging, special economic zones, deep sea ports, hydroelectric dams, and mining concessions, all of these types of projects have been associated with unlawful land confiscations from individuals and communities with little or no compensation. Economic development projects in Myanmar are causing widespread displacement and are having devastating impacts on those communities living in project locations, including human rights violations and adverse effects on livelihoods, food security, and health. For those subjected to unlawful evictions and land grabs, the consequences are dire, driving many people into poverty. Government policy has encouraged the development of these projects, and weak and unclear land policies, including some new land laws written to support investment and economic growth, have provided the government, military, and businesses with legal cover to confiscate people?s land without a transparent process for determining and awarding compensation. In the following report, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) builds on its previous research on land confiscations in Myanmar by using an epidemiological survey tool to assess the human rights, livelihood, and health impacts on communities displaced by the reservoir created by Paunglaung dam in southern Shan state..."
Source/publisher: Physicians for Human Rights
Date of publication: 2015-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-08
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Forced Displacements and Destroyed Lives around Upper Paunglaung Dam: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်တွင်းရှိ ပေါင်းလောင်းရေကာတာ အထက်ပိုင်??
Description: "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် နှစ်ပေါင်း ၄၀ နီးပါး နိုင်ငံတကာ စီးပွားရေးပိတ်ဆို့ခံရသည်အထိ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သော စစ်တပ်ဦးစီးသည့်အစိုးရအုပ်ချုပ်မှုလက်အောက်တွင် ကျရောက်ခဲ့သည်။ သို့သော် ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် နှစ်ဦးပိုင်း၌ အစိုးရ၏မူဝါဒအချို့အား ဖြေလျော့ပြီးနောက်ပိုင်းတွင် အနောက်နိုင်ငံများမှ ထိုပိတ်ဆို့မှုများအား ပြန်လည်ဖွင့်လှစ်ပေးခဲ့သည်။ နိုင်ငံအတွင်းပိတ်ဆို့မှုများပြုလုပ်ထားသည့်အချိန်တွင် စီးပွားရေးအရ နှစ်နိုင်ငံဆက်ဆံမှုများ ဆက်လက်တည်ရှိနေခဲ့သည့်တရုတ်နိုင်ငံနှင့် အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံများကဲ့သို့ပင် သြစတြေးလျ၊ ကနေဒါ၊ ဂျပန်၊ အမေရိကန်နှင့် ဥရောပတိုက်ရှိနိုင်ငံများသည် ဤနိုင်ငံအတွင်း အခြေတည်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် ဆယ်စုနှစ်များအတွင်း ပထမဆုံးအဖြစ် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုဆိုင်ရာအထောက်အကူပစ္စည်းများအား တိုးမြှင့်ပံ့ပိုးခဲ့ပြီး ၎င်းတို့၏စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများကို လည်ပတ်စေရန် ခွင့်ပြုခဲ့သည်။"
Source/publisher: Physicians for Human Rights
Date of publication: 2015-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-08
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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