treasure worth fighting for: myanmar's jade trade
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CONFLICT AND CORRUPTION INMYANMAR'S JADE TRADE
TREASUREWORTH
FIGHTINGFOR?
James St. John [CC BY 2.0]
WHAT
JADE IS FOUR TIMES
more valuable than
gold
THE BIGGEST
IMPORTER by far is china
Most of the country’s
jade lies under the
soil of the unstable
Kachin state
WHERE
PROSEDACMaps [CC BY 2.0]
Drug Lords
Myanmar'sMilitary
Elite
KachinIndependenceOrganisation
THE EXTRACTION OF THE PRECIOUS STONES IS
FOUGHT OVER BY VARIOUS GROUPS...
CorruptBusinessmen
WHO
THE VICTIMS
100,000THE CONFLICT fuelled by jade mining HAS SO FAR DISPLACED
PEOPLE SINCE ITS REKINDLING IN 2011
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