Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry. 
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Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry. 

တရားလွှတ်တော်ရှေ့နေ ဦးကိုနီနှင့် အငှားယာဉ်မောင်း ကိုနေဝင်းတို့ အသက်ခံရသည့်အမှုအား စစ်ဆေး စီရင်ခဲ့ရာတွင် အထူးခုံရုံးက ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်ဟု တရားရုံးတာဝန်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးက ပြောကြားသည်

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