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Copper And Robbers: Farmers Fight Land Grab In Myanmar
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October 16, 2014
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As Myanmar opens up to foreign investment after decades of dictatorship, a big land grab is underway. Companies with ties to the military are kicking the rural poor aside to get rich — and not sharing much of the spoils. In Letpadaung, hundreds of farmers have been displaced from their ancestral villages to make way for a massive, China-backed copper mining project. But some of them are fighting back. Reporter Jason Motlagh traveled to Myanmar for AJ+ to find out more.
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