Burma: Arakanese Take To The Streets To Demand Gas Be Used For Arakan Electricity

Burma: Arakanese Take To The Streets To Demand Gas Be Used For Arakan Electricity   Today over 250 Arakanese took to the streets in the state capital of Sittwe and across two townships, wearing t-shirts, pasting stickers and posters, demanding that natural gas from Arakan coastal waters be used to generate 24-hour electricity throughout the state before any is exported to China.   Activists from the campaign delivered an open letter to the Arakan state minister yesterday with the same...

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