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KEO Statement
Jun 18, 2009

KEO Statement

-KEOhome

Kachin Environmental Organization

 Statement of KEO

Date: June 5, 2009 world environment day

As the world knows, Kachin state is rich with natural resources in Burma.  Kachin state has beautiful land covered with different natural resources such as jade and gold, different wild life species, and beautiful forestry.  Unfortunately, today Burma is under the control of the military regime, and the people from Burma are living in an endangered society.

Today is world environment day; we, KEO, would like to let the world know of the tremendous damages to the environment caused by natural resources investment in Burma, which benefits only the military regime.  There are tremendous impacts on the Kachin environment, including local climate change, social impacts, natural resources waste, and a tremendous impact on the Kachin people’s livelihood in the state.

Large scale logging, jade mining, gold mining and hydro power projects in Kachin state are financed by the military regime and neighboring countries, and natural resources investment under the regime government has become increasingly corrupt and helps to support the regime and prolong its existence in the country.

There have been increases in drug addiction, trafficking and prostitution among teenagers in Kachin state in areas where natural resource investments are controlled by the military regime.  Natural resource investment often results in increased militarization, as the regime brings more soldiers into the investment areas.  These soldiers sometimes rape local Kachin women and use forced labor.

Corrupt natural resources investment agreements between the military regime and foreign investors often lead to increases in human trafficking for prostitution among Kachin adolescents.  This benefits the regime, which fears that a new generation of healthy and well-educated Kachin teenagers might threaten the strength of the military regime. SPDC knows that Kachin people depend on natural resources and forests for their livelihood and intends to destroy all the natural resources in Kachin state so that it will become a dry land, with no more beautiful land and no more natural resources.  SPDC also encourages marriages between military Burman soldiers and ethnic Kachin girls because they believe it will strengthen and prolong the regime.

Kachin Organizations  
  • All Kachin Youth Union
  • Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT)
  • Kachin Environmental Organization (KEO)
  • Kachin National Organization
  • Kachin Independence Organization
  • New Democratic Army (Kachin)
  • Kachin Development Group (KDG)
  • Pan Kachin Development Society
  • Kachin State constitutional drafting committee (KCDC )
  • All Kachin students and Youth Union
  • Kachin Youth Network Group
  • Kachin Youth Organization (Shan State)
  • Kachin Civil Societies Groups
  • Kachin Development Network Group (KDNG)
  • Kachin Youth Development Organization (KYDO)

  Contact person:

 Mr. Yaw Na Executive director; KEO Tell: + 66846135838

Email: keo21vision@yahoo.com  

 Kb-JHON Program coordinator;

KEO Email: kb_yorna@yahoo.com
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Posted: Thursday June 18, 2009, 6:49 am
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