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Thousands of miners protest government order
Thousands of miners in Mandalay division’s Yamethin township rallied after an order from the Ministry of Mining demanding the suspension of all mining operations across the country left them jobless.
On 16 September 2011, small mining companies were invited to participate in a joint venture with the Myanmar National Prosperity Public Company Limited, which previously won a government tender to mine a 6,015-acre site in Yamething’s Moehti Moemi region southeast of the town.
The NPPCL pledged to work with the smaller mining firms for at least five years. After negotiating an agreement with the NCCPL, the smaller firms claimed that the company provided them with no support.
The firms resorted to investing their own money, equipment and human resources into the project.
According to the tendered agreement, the NCCPL would provide the MoM with 5.577 tons of gold, while the smaller companies would receive half of the raw ore that they excavated.
The invested companies were informed by the NCCPL earlier last month that the MoM were halting all mining operations on 5 May in an effort to attract larger investments from international mining companies.
Residents from the area and miners began holding mass demonstrations on 1 June in response to the MoM’s move. The NCCPL’s general manager Htun Aung Soe is holding talks with the protesters but have failed to reach a deal.
Tags: burma, Environment, mandalay, Miners, mining, Ministry of Mining, protests
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There it goes for lifting senction!!! All the giant coporation with money and machine power are comming in to exploit and extrect the resources cheaply without lifting the living standard of ordinary people. Cronism will reign and people will suffer deeper if the law and judicial system do not change the old way.
Tom,
Simple intellectual laziness.
When they look at the books only for amount of production and money, the unmeasured and unknown are lost.
For example, artisen creaters would work not because of money but for the pleasure of work as such and these are not taken into consideration.
Here it is the gainful, honest occupation of th epeople with their social fabric which is not on the book and is ignored to the disadvantage of the whole sopcial system.
Then people will now be unemployed with loss of self esteem and faith in the society. Accumulaion of it will one day translate to ugly social ills which a no amount of money can rectify.
You ae right. This is noet even the beginnig yet. We will see more of this in near future to the detriment of us all.
Myanmar govt is going to wrong direction. They should promote or help local people there to set up mining companies, so that business of the local people can grow to bring up the country’ GDP and maintain job and business opportunity for local people there.
Now, for the sake of “transparency” if someone will announce who is (or who owns) “National Prosperity Public Company Limited”, we will know what is going on! Did they call themselves “Public” Co Ltd?