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Article

4 Sep 2015

Author:
Irrawaddy (Myanmar)

Myanmar: Scottish truck company announces supply to controversial jade mines

"Scottish Truck Company Supplies Controversial Jade Mines in Burma", 29 Aug 2015

A Scottish truck company owned by Swedish motor giant Volvo Group has announced that it is providing equipment to a company operating one of northern Burma’s controversial jade mines...Large-scale mining resumed last year after a hiatus due to fighting between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army. Local civil society groups argue that the multi-billion dollar jade business is inflaming the conflict, with the armed groups vying for control of valuable mining areas and transportation routes. Fighting has indeed continued with the resumption of mining, and...hundreds of local residents were still being displaced by clashes. The United States retains a ban on imports of jade due to the Burmese military’s close ties to the business....Coca-Cola was forced to come clean after due diligence failed to turn up links between one of its key local partners and a jade-mining firm...Scotland-based Terex Trucks, however, is open about its involvement in the trade—which is not restricted by the US ban. The company issued a statement...lauding the first order of its TR60 dump truck by local company Myanmar Thura “to cover expansion at the company’s jade mine in Kachin State.”