Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where one of the country's mining companies and Chinese partner are ready to mine their ancestral homeland for lead ore. Since a 2021 coup, civil war has fragmented the country into a patchwork of loosely governed territories ripe for exploitation by unregulated miners. "We don't have any plan to exchange this inheritance from our ancestors for money or riches," says 24-year-old protest leader Khun Khine Min Naing.
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