- They were protesting and had settled next to a copper mine
- The agents burst in with water cannons and tear gas
EFE / BANGKOK
At least 80 personas, including monks, were injured during the police charge against the camps set up in northwest Burma by protesters who for days They occupied a copper mine in protest.
Some 30 Buddhist monks were admitted to a health centerof the population of Monywa with different types of wounds, among themburns caused by substances used by riot police, according to Mizzima radio.
The Monywa clinic decided transfer one of the religious who was in critical condition to a hospital in Mandalay, main city and located about 140 kilometers southeast of the previous.
The operation of the security forces, that they used pressurized water cannons and tear gas, It occurred at dawn and simultaneously in the three camps set up at the Latpadaung mining exploitation, near Monywa.
This mining exploitation was awarded in 2011 a la corporación formada por la empresa 'Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd.', one of the companies of the Burmese Armed Forces, and the Chinese company Wan Bao Company.
Residents of the area complain that more of 7.800 acres have been confiscated for this project and demand that it be suspended until it has been properly debated in Parliament.
Among the wounded, some from flares fired by police officers, figuran women and monks who supported the protest, indicaron al canal 'Eleven News' several witnesses.
The injured were taken to Monywa and Mandalay hospitals., the second largest city in the country.
The dismantling of the camps took place a day after the authorities arrested six leaders of the protest that began last week.
The opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi, was scheduled to meet with protesters at the mine in order to listen to your demands.
A year ago, massive protests led to the president of Burma, the former general Thein Being, to suspend work on the Myitsone dam, a project of 3.600 Millions of dollars (2.667 Millions of euros) and financed by China.
