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DAM-L LS: Oversea-Shans Protest Building of Salween Dam (fwd)
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> No: 12 - 7
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> Oversea Shans Protest Building of Salween Dam
>
> The Overseas-Shan Organization yesterday sent a letter to Japan's
ministry
> of finance requesting to reconsider financing the Tasang Dam Project on
the
> Salween.
>
> The letter, dated 11 November, and signed by Sao Noan Oo of Lawkzawk, who
> resides in the United Kingdom, appealed to Mr. Miichi Miyazawa of the
> Ministry of Finance, "to refrain from supporting and giving aid to the
> Burmese military regime, particularly in financing the Tasang Dam
Project."
>
> Since the project came into being, she said, "the area around the site
has
> been increasingly militarized, resulting in increased forced labour and
> force relocation... The dam will not only have a devastating social and
> environmental impacts: large area of farmlands will be inundated and
> countless more people will be displaced with little hope of compensation.
> Even if not submerged, forcests in the area will inevitably be depleted,
> when logging companies move in to use the infrastructure built to serve
the
> dam."
>
> Sao Noan Oo, a scion of one of the former princely states of Shan State,
> previously known as the Shan States before the formation of a union with
> Burma "proper" in 1947, maintained that the people of Shan State "are
> resolutely opposed to the building of the dam on the Salween. The fear
that
> if the river ceases to flow the Shan State as we know will be lost
forever.
> The Salween or Nham Khong River is as important symbolically to the Shan
as
> Mount Fuji is to the Japanese people."
>
> She also stated that since joining Burma, the people of Shan State "have
> lost all the human rights taken away from them: the right not to be
> massacred, the right not to be raped and the right to refuse to work like
> draught animals."
>
> The International Labour Organization on 16 November passed a resolution
> urging members to re-evaluate their relations with the military regime in
> Rangoon.
>
> The Salween flows down from the foothills of the Himalayas, rushes down
> from north the south along the whole length of the Shan State before
> flowing through the Karenni, Karen and Mon states into the Indian Ocean
at
> Moulmein.
>
> The GMS Power, a subsidiary of the MDX company from Thailand, has been
> conducting studies since 1997. Human Rights watchers have reported that
at
> least 300,000 people from the area have been forced relocated since.
>
> A Shan academic in North America also commented the Japanese were making
a
> seemingly needless mystery out of the project.
>
> "The Japanese are up to their eyebrows in it, but very cagey about - like
> they are committing a crime..."
>
> He said reasons being given: to supply Thailand with electricity and to
> bring water down to supply dams "all these seems like a big smoke screen
> (because) Thai experts say there is enough water and that the decrease of
> water in Thai dams is seasonal. As for electricity, Thailand now has gas
> from the junta which it now doesn't want and can't use...."
>
> S.H.A.N.
>
> ///END\\\
> For further information, please contact S.H.A.N. at:
> Shan Herald Agency for News.
> e-mail: <shan@cm.ksc.co.th>
> 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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