Pillaging Paradise
Exclusive footage from Northern Burma reveals how Chinese loggers are plundering rare timber. Now, insurgents in Kachin claim they will break the cease-fire unless locals get a better deal. "We have lost our forests", laments one resident. In the past four years, the illegal timber trade from Burma has grown by 60%. Locals despair at the moral decay that has gone hand in hand with the timber trade and want the logging stopped. But it was their own insurgent army which agreed a cease-fire with Burma ten years ago that facilitated the trade. Now the Kachin Insurgent Army is claiming they'll go to war again if they don't get a better deal. "This illegal trade is being done by Chinese businessman in league with Burmese army officers", complains a Kachin Insurgent spokesman. "Now war is inevitable."
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