Commission treads carefully on |controversial dam plan
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NAY PYTI TAW - THE review process for the proposed Myitsone dam has been rigid but objective, according to chairman T Khun Myat of the Dam Project Study and Review Commission and Lower House Speaker Win Myint.
“All we want to say at this time is that we are trying to find the best way for both sides. This is a delicate issue and we’ve given official spokesperson rights to secretary Win Thein,” T Khun Myat told the press in Nay Pyi Taw. “When it’s time, the people will know.”
Five villages that have been displaced by the dam project held a series of meetings to oppose the scheme, arguing that Myitsone is the historic homeland of the Kachin people and that they should work together to stop the project. The Kachin communities demanded the right to return to their homes and condemned the project’s lack of transparency.
- MYANMAR ELEVEN
ASIA NEWS NETWORK
