Myanmar: Myanmar Junta’s Coup Gives Greenlight to Timber Traffickers

Aug 17, 2021 | Irrawaddy
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Timber logging usually takes a break in the monsoon. Even smugglers halt their activities from mid-May to early October to avoid the rainy season. However, Salai witnesses 15 to 20 timber trucks passing each day near his village in Hkamti, Sagaing Region—a highly forested region in northwest Myanmar between the border with India and Kachin State.