China lead mine plan weighs heavily on Myanmar tribe
Video Credit: AFP English - Duration: 02:24s - Published
China lead mine plan weighs heavily on Myanmar tribe
Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where one of the country's mining companies and Chinese partner are ready to mine their ancestral homeland for lead ore.
Since a 2021 coup, civil war has fragmented the country into a patchwork of loosely governed territories ripe for exploitation by unregulated miners.
"We don't have any plan to exchange this inheritance from our ancestors for money or riches," says 24-year-old protest leader Khun Khine Min Naing.
