Jade , Genocide and Burma

Dec 10, 2017 – Cartier’s Tutti Frutti collection features sapphires from Burma. Activists from the International Campaign for the Rohingya (ICR) plan next to target Bulgari, which advertises several necklaces and earrings featuring Burmese rubies, sapphires and jade. In May, the American model Bella Hadid wore a Bulgari …

Oct 2, 2017 – When Myanmar’s military regime released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, in 2010, she had been the world’s most famous political prisoner for nearly … Democratic movements did not always triumph—the Chinese government’s massacre of student protesters near Tiananmen Square is the grimmest …

Burma produces over 95% of the world’s rubies and over 99% of the world’s jadeite. Jadeite is superior quality jade, or “imperial jade.” In its 2015 report “Jade: Myanmar’s “Big State Secret,” Global Witness stated that this multi-billion dollar jade trade is “tightly controlled by … military elites, US-sanctioned drug lords and …

Sep 7, 2017 – Washington lawmakers who once enthusiastically supported Aung San Suu Kyi’s rise to power in Burma have shifted this week to criticism of her … Obama made two trips to the country, and last year his administration lifted the remaining economic sanctions, including on the import of jade and rubies.

Oct 16, 2016 – Miners in Burma have found one of the world’s most valuable pieces of jade. The stone is valued at £140 million and was discovered in a remote mine in Kachin State, in the north of the country. The stone is is 18ft long, 18ft wide and 9ft high and weighs approximately 175 tonnes.

Oct 15, 2016 – A giant jade stone weighing 175 tonnes has been uncovered by miners in Myanmar.

Oct 15, 2016 – A giant jade stone weighing 175 tonnes has been uncovered by miners in Myanmar.

Tay Lay told mehehad gone into the jade business, teaming up with SPDC Vice Chairman Maung Aye’s sister-in-law (apparently known to all as’Cherry’), selling jade internationally. One would assume hewas selling to China, where jade is highly coveted. Burma’s jade isconsidered the world’s finest, but evenif it is sold …

Nov 13, 2015 – A new report by Yale Law School says the UN should urgently investigate the fate of the Rohingy