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16 Jan 2015

Author:
Nobel Zaw, Irrawaddy (Myanmar)

Myanmar: Human Rights Commission faults police over Letpadaung copper mine shooting

Burma’s National Human Rights Commission has said that the recent killing of a farmer at the Letpadaung copper mine in Sagaing Division was the result of mistakes made by the police when they tried to suppress a protest against the project…[T]he commission said police had failed to follow security procedures for quelling a protest…when officers were deployed to protect workers from China’s Wanbao Company as they seized and fenced off farmland for the expansion of the mine in Salingyi Township…

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