{"id":884,"date":"2016-02-23T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T09:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/?p=884"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:38:29","slug":"broken-promise-deadly-gold-mining-continues-in-mong-len","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Broken Promises Deadly Gold Mining Continues in Mong Len"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Update By the Shan Human Rights Foundation<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/02-23-16-english.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-882\" src=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/02-23-16-english.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/02-23-16-english.jpg 450w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/02-23-16-english-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/02-23-16-english-291x420.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to strong community resistance to gold mining in Mong Len, eastern Shan State, the Shan State Mining Minister ordered the mining to stop in July 2014. Despite this, mining is ongoing in this area till today, with permission from Naypyidaw, and is continuing to have grave impacts on the health and livelihoods of local villagers. This booklet documents the struggle of the villagers to hold the mining companies accountable, and the failure of companies and government officials to protect local communities\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The booklet is dedicated to Loong Sarm, a villager from Na Hai Long, Mong Len, who was shot and killed by Burmese government soldiers on October 13, 2015, when he went with a group of villagers to monitor the gold mining in the hills above his village. The soldiers were providing security for the mining operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PDF Files:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class='maxbutton-1-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-1 maxbutton maxbutton-shan\" href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02-23-16-shan-by-shrf.pdf\"><span class='mb-text'>Shan<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class='maxbutton-2-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-2 maxbutton maxbutton-burmese\" href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02-23-16-burmese-by-shrf.pdf\"><span class='mb-text'>Burmese<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class='maxbutton-3-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-english\" href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/02-23-16-english-by-shrf.pdf\"><span class='mb-text'>English<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update By the Shan Human Rights Foundation In response to strong community resistance to gold mining in Mong Len, eastern Shan State, the Shan State Mining Minister ordered the mining to stop in July 2014. Despite this, mining is ongoing in this area till today, with permission from Naypyidaw, and is continuing to have grave impacts on the health and livelihoods of local villagers. This booklet documents the struggle of the villagers to hold the mining companies accountable, and the failure of companies and government officials to protect local communities\u2019 rights. The booklet is dedicated to Loong Sarm, a villager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[307,382],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-ts81","tag-ts84"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}