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Myanmar: Jade and Beijing olympics

Categories: East Asia, Myanmar (Burma), Economics & Business, Human Rights, International Relations, Labor, Politics, Protest, Sport, Olympics

Activists urge visitors to the 2008 Beijing Olympics to boycott [1] souvenirs and jewelry made of Burmese jade in order to avoid supporting Burma’s “abuse-ridden jade mining industry.”