A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar…killed about 100 people, most of them villagers digging for green stones in a mountain of displaced earth…Many other people were missing.

The landslide occurred in the Kachin State area of Hpakant...

Lamai Gum Ja, a community leader, said that homes at the base of the mine dump had been flattened.

He estimated that 100 to 200 people were still missing…

“Large companies, many of them owned by families of former generals, army companies, cronies and drug lords, are making tens or hundreds of millions of dollars a year through their plunder of Hpakant,” said Mike Davis, the Asia director at Global Witness.

“Their legacy to local people is a dystopian wasteland in which scores of people at a time are buried alive in landslides,” Mr. Davis said.