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DAM-L LS: Construction has begun at the Salween dam site (fwd)
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subject: LS: Construction has begun at the Salween dam site
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>Junta soldiers: some construction have begun at the Salween dam site
>
>Reporter: Saeng Khao Haeng
>
>Some soldiers recently told S.H.A.N.'s source construction of a sort had
>started since the end of the monsoons near the projected dam site of the
>Salween.
>
>Soldiers who were hitching a ride from the Tasang bridge, between Shan
>State's Mongpan and Mongton townships, to Monton said concrete posts were
>being erected at Tangseng, between Palao (the dam site) and the Tasang
>Bridge. According to the soldiers, the structure, after completion, would
>be able to sustain 5,000 tons of water.
>
>The laborers were villagers from the surrounding area, they said, receiving
>K. 500 each per day from the Burmese engineering unit.
>
>"Actually, we were willing to work for wage, but our superiors said 'No,
>it's too dangerous.'"
>
>Unconfirmed reports said one of the holes dug along the western bank
>collapsed some time in October killing several workers. The soldiers,
>however, neither rejected nor admitted it.
>
>The platoons from the 4 battalions in Mongton, namely : IB 65, IB 225, IB
>227 and LIB 519, are on rotation for security against possible attacks from
>the Shan State Army, whose 727th Brigade is active around here, one of the
>soldiers said.
>
>According to the GMS Power from Bangkok, the purpose of the present
>undertaking is to work out a conceptual design for the dam.
>
>///END\\\
>For further information, please contact S.H.A.N. at:
>Shan Herald Agency for News.
>e-mail: <shan@cm.ksc.co.th>
>http://www.shanland.org
>
>S.H.A.N. is a non-profit, independent Shan media group. It is not
>affiliated to any political or armed organization.
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