Pillaging Paradise
As the violent crackdown continues in Burma, pressure is growing on the Chinese to use their influence with the Generals. 'Pillaging Paradise' examines China's business connections with Burma.
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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