NGOs say human rights violations are ‘systemic’ in the region of the hydropower project.
PARIS: An international consortium has suspended a $1.5-billion hydropower dam project in Myanmar in response to last month’s military coup, consortium member Electricite de France, a French utility, said Sunday.
Nearly 250 people are confirmed dead in protests since the February 1 military coup, according to tolls compiled by NGOs, and more than 2,300 others have been arrested.
International condemnation from Washington, Brussels and the United Nations has so far failed to halt the bloodshed.
“The project is suspended,” an EDF spokesman told AFP on Sunday of the dam project.
The Shweli-3 671-megawatt project, still at an early planning stage, is run by a consortium of EDF — which is majority-owned by the French…
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