Burma: riot police move in to break up copper mine protestRiot police in Burma used incendiary phosphorus shells along with teargas and water cannon in an overnight operation to disperse thousands of villagers protesting against a vast copper mining project, activists claimed on Thursday. After decades of repressive military rule, the demonstrations at the Monywa mine in the north-west, run by the military and a subsidiary of a Chinese arms manufacturer,
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