Myanmar - Usa Washington Looks at the Rare Lands of Kachin: Hopes or New Exploitation?

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The Trump administration would be considering a collaboration with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) to access rare-earth deposits in northern Myanmar and reduce the Chinese monopoly. However, local residents fear the possible environmental repercussions and the risk of further feeding the civil conflict. Kachin activists ask Washington for strict standards and sustainable solutions to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

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After three days of intensive fieldwork, debate and exchange of experiences in the control and surveillance of its territory for the exercise of its individual and collective rights, the Fourth National Meeting of Indigenous Territorial Monitors issued on Sunday an important declaration in which it identified carbon markets and the exploitation of rare earths as new threats of the extractive development model.