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Moegyobyin (Myanmar), March 14 (Reuters): Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi faced the wrath of hundreds of villagers today angered by her defence of an independent report that backed expansion of a copper mine they say was built on illegally seized land.
The country’s most high-profile lawmaker chaired a panel that concluded in a report on Tuesday that a deal agreed between a local joint venture and the former military government to build the Monywa copper mine should be honoured.
“We don’t want Aung San Suu Kyi. We don’t want the copper project,” shouted some 300 demonstrators that had gathered in each of the three villages the Opposition leader visited to try to justify the findings of the parliamentary commission.
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