Pillaging Paradise - Burma

November 2005
Exclusive footage from Northern Burma reveals how Chinese loggers are plundering rare timber. Now, insurgents in Kachin claim they will break the cease-fire unless locals get a better deal.

"We have lost our forests", laments one resident. In the past four years, the illegal timber trade from Burma has grown by 60%. Locals despair at the moral decay that has gone hand in hand with the timber trade and want the logging stopped. But it was their own insurgent army which agreed a cease-fire with Burma ten years ago that facilitated the trade. Now the Kachin Insurgent Army is claiming they'll go to war again if they don't get a better deal. "This illegal trade is being done by Chinese businessman in league with Burmese army officers", complains a Kachin Insurgent spokesman. "Now war is inevitable."

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[xcon99]

fucking chines they don't care for anything only money.

[BrunoM130]

yaa like prostitution (or perhaps even rape) just an economic exploitation haha!

[ilikesuzuki]

@xcon99 fuck the chinese and US they always prey on the weak.

[tortelli]

@bodomar47 burma is being raped by burma itself! unfortunatly..

rich culture, lousy generals ruling the country.

[kachinroad]

Yeah like china, us every have the same thing but only different is the way the do.

[rightclique]

China is the colonizer in an economical sense. No doubt about it.

[bodomar47]

Burma is being raped by China, not just the girls. Chinese are destroying the culture, religion and nature of Burma. Soon they will be scraping the gold from our pagodas.

[dsfungg]

Nothing wrong about making money. It's the eonomic problem, stupid.