The remote and environmentally rich Hugawng Valley in Burma’s northern Kachin State has been internationally recognized as one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity. The military junta ruling Burma, together with the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society, is establishing the world’s largest tiger reserve in the valley. However, the conditions of the people living there have no received attention. Valley of Darkness reveals the untold story of how the junta’s militarization and self-serving expansion of the gold mining industry have devastated communities and ravaged the valley’s forests and waterways.

Kachin Development Networking Group, January 10, 2007

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