Woman Killed While Protesting Chinese Copper Mine

NY Times: A villager protesting the expansion of a Chinese copper mine in Myanmar was shot and killed on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest bout of violence to mar the project.

Villagers reached by telephone said the slain woman, Daw Khin Win, 56, was shot by security forces as the police and Chinese employees of the mine were erecting a fence in one of the villages where land had been seized for the expansion of the operation. More than a dozen people were wounded in clashes with security forces, witnesses said.

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Five land-grab Protesters charged for blocking Yangon City Hall

Mizzima: Five of the Migyaungkan land-confiscation protesters, who have been camped out for two weeks in front of Yangon City Hall, have been charged with obstruction, according to the Yangon police.

Police Colonel Win Bo, deputy police commander of Yangon Region Police Force, summoned five protestors on December 22 to the office of the Yangon City Development Committee YCDC and informed them about the charges against them.

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Human Rights Watch Slam Deadly Use of Force at Latpadaung

DVB: International watchdogs and Burmese activists have voiced distress and disdain over the Burmese police handling of protestors at the controversial Latpadaung copper mine site, where a woman was killed on Monday.

Local villager Ma Khin Win, was shot dead and several other local protestors were injured both with live ammunition and rubber bullets in separate incidents on Monday and Tuesday.

David Mathieson, the senior researcher on Burma at the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW) pointedly blamed the Burmese authorities for their “abject failure” to resolve the land dispute at the mine site near Monywa in Sagaing Division.

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