Myanmar: Female human rights defender killed while protesting mining
Resumo
Data informada: 22 Dez 2014
Localização: Myanmar
Empresas
Ivanhoe Mines - Parent Company , Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper Company Limited (MICCL) - SubsidiaryProjetos
Monywa - OperationAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Comunidade: ( Número desconhecido - Indonésia , Mineração , Gender not reported )Temas
Forced Relocation , Impactos nos meios de subsistência , Assassinatos , Protestos , Defensores de Direitos HumanosResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
"Woman Killed While Protesting Chinese Copper Mine in Myanmar", 22 Dec 2014
A villager protesting the expansion of a Chinese copper mine in Myanmar was shot and killed on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest bout of violence to mar the project... Villagers reached by telephone said the slain woman, Daw Khin Win, 56, was shot by security forces as the police and Chinese employees of the mine were erecting a fence in one of the villages where land had been seized for the expansion of the operation. More than a dozen people were wounded in clashes with security forces, witnesses said...