Treasure Worth Fighting For: Myanmar's Jade Trade

CONFLICT AND CORRUPTION INMYANMAR'S JADE TRADE

TREASUREWORTH

FIGHTINGFOR?

James St. John [CC BY 2.0]

WHAT

JADE IS FOUR TIMES

more valuable than

gold

THE BIGGEST

IMPORTER by far is china

Most of the country’s

jade lies under the

soil of the unstable

Kachin state

WHERE

PROSEDACMaps [CC BY 2.0]

Drug Lords

Myanmar'sMilitary

Elite

KachinIndependenceOrganisation

THE EXTRACTION OF THE PRECIOUS STONES IS

FOUGHT OVER BY VARIOUS GROUPS...

CorruptBusinessmen

WHO

THE VICTIMS

100,000THE CONFLICT fuelled by jade mining HAS SO FAR DISPLACED

PEOPLE SINCE ITS REKINDLING IN 2011

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