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Myanmar’s military junta take control of 'blood jade' mines worth billions and 'fuelling conflict'

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The military takeover in Myanmar has given the Generals behind the coup full control over the country's highly lucrative jade industry, blunting the threat of international sanctions. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

The Junta and other armed groups are thought to be making billions of pounds a year from the jade mines. The environmental and human rights group Global Witness says that since the coup, corruption in the jade industry has also fuelled a new wave of conflict. Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports.

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