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Myanmar: A phenomenal overview from @zachabuza.bsky.social touching on countless aspects of the ever-more precarious situation for the 🇲🇲 junta going into 2025.
"To sum it up, the junta is entering the fifth year of military rule with its power rapidly slipping away."
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"To sum it up, the junta is entering the fifth year of military rule with its power rapidly slipping away."
www.rfa.org/english/opin...
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January 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Myanmar: A phenomenal overview from @zachabuza.bsky.social touching on countless aspects of the ever-more precarious situation for the 🇲🇲 junta going into 2025.
"To sum it up, the junta is entering the fifth year of military rule with its power rapidly slipping away."
www.rfa.org/english/opin...
"To sum it up, the junta is entering the fifth year of military rule with its power rapidly slipping away."
www.rfa.org/english/opin...
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This year, GW found annual imports of heavy rare earths from Myanmar to China had more than doubled, making Myanmar the world’s largest source. GW documented escalating environmental destruction around Pangwa and mapped expansion of the mining in KIO-controlled Momauk township shorturl.at/sRGfx
Fuelling the future, poisoning the present: Myanmar’s rare earth boom | Global Witness
The global energy transition is helping fuel a growing boom in toxic rare earth mining in Myanmar
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November 20, 2024 at 12:24 PM
This year, GW found annual imports of heavy rare earths from Myanmar to China had more than doubled, making Myanmar the world’s largest source. GW documented escalating environmental destruction around Pangwa and mapped expansion of the mining in KIO-controlled Momauk township shorturl.at/sRGfx
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Myanmar’s Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) hopes to soon resume rare earth mining in the Pangwa-Chipwi region on the Chinese border, local media report. This would conclude a massive shift of power in a mineral crucial to the green energy transition shorturl.at/9Qsd8 Thread 🧵⬇️
Myanmar’s KIA Says Rare Earth Mining Set to Resume in Pangwa-Chipwi Area
It said negotiations are under way with businessmen in Pangwa and Chipwi towns, which the KIA seized from the junta in recent months.
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November 20, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Myanmar’s Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) hopes to soon resume rare earth mining in the Pangwa-Chipwi region on the Chinese border, local media report. This would conclude a massive shift of power in a mineral crucial to the green energy transition shorturl.at/9Qsd8 Thread 🧵⬇️