Oil extraction threatens Myanmar islanders

AFP English 2012-05-09

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For decades the islanders of Myanmar's Shweri Chai have extracted oil using makeshift pulleys to draw the reddish liquid from the ground. But with foreign investors salivating over the energy potential of their resource-rich but desperately poor nation, the locals fear the windfall they have relied upon for so long may soon disappear. Duration: 00:37

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