Myanmar leader blames joblessness for deadly mining tragedy

Suu Kyi, speaking on a scheduled Facebook Live broadcast with representatives of the construction industry, bemoaned what she described as the need for people to illegally sift for jade because they lacked other ways of making a living.

The Myanmar Fire Services Department, which co-ordinates rescue and emergency services, announced Friday that there were 166 deaths from the accident, an increase of four over Thursday's total. It earlier announced that 54 injured people had been hospitalized. Hpakant, a remore area 950 kilometres north of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, is the centre of the world's biggest and most lucrative jade mining industry. The most detailed estimate of Myanmar's jade industry, made by the environmental watchdog group Global Witness, said it generated about $31 billion in 2014.

London-based Global Witness called the landslide "a damning indictment of the government's failure to curb reckless and irresponsible mining practices."

Sounds like something Chairman Turdhead would say

Need competence to create alot of jobs for poor.

There was so much hope for Myanmar until this dismal failure became leader

Myanmar? How about joblessness in Canada?

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Not kax govt regulations or ineffective corporate safety policies? It's easier to blame an abstract notion than actual people.

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