Starting from the 2nd week of April 2011, sourced from local people that the provisional mapping of the location of the gas pipeline which will run from Khyatphyu, Arakhan State to China have begun in Mansan, Namatu, and Maimaw, Namatu Township, Northern Shan State.
Locals expect an abundance of land confiscation and human rights abuses to take place along the boundary pillars of pipeline in Mansan, west of Maimu, west of Lonmate, west of Kaunghyon, and west of Manmai and other villages between Namatu and Mansan.
“They have finished setting up the temporary boundaries from Nammatu to Maimaw and we have heard that they will continue measuring along the Shweli Hydro Power transmit line. They came and located 20 acres at farm of U Aik Yay and 20 acres at Kupanaung’s in east of Mainampanlay village” said the next local villager.
Not only do villagers really worry that currently, they have crossed in total 10 villages abut also they are anxious that they will continue passing many villages along the road between Namatu and Maimaw, which will lead to the presence of one Chinese engineer and two Burmese military staffs for measuring the gas pipes.
Most Ta’ang (Palaung), some Kachin, Shan, and other ethnics live along the roads where the gas pipes will cross within in Northern Shan State. It will probably increase the number of land confiscation cases, where the land will be needed for laying the pipeline. These areas are where local people have paddy fields, tea farms, and vegetable gardens thus affecting their livelihoods.
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