Hpakant, Myanmar, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):A torrent of water, rock and heavy sludge spun Sai Ko as he clung to a corpse to survive — a memory that still traumatises the young “jade-picker” three months after Myanmar’s worst-ever mine disaster. Heavy rainfall in July triggered a massive landslide in Hpakant — the green heart of Myanmar’s jade trade in northern Kachin state — that entombed nearly 300 miners. Today, Sai Ko is still recovering from head injuries sustained when the unstable mountain of waste collapsed beneath him. Two of his friends were less lucky, among the victims of the under-regulated, notoriously … Continue reading ‘Make it safer’: calls grow to reform Myanmar’s deadly jade trade