Over 50,000 inhabitants will become homeless if the Burmese military junta forges ahead with the construction of a series of dams on the confluence of the Maykhah, Malikhah and the Irrawaddy rivers in collaboration with China, ethnic Kachin activists said.
To protest against the junta's proposal to construct the dams, Kachin activists, yesterday staged a rally in New Delhi, Tokyo and London. It demanded that the junta immediately put a halt to its planned hydro-project in Kachin state, northern Burma.
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