“The Frontier Service Group (FSG), founded by former US military contractor Eric Prince, is moving into Myanmar to provide security services for Chinese and other foreign investors, the Myanmar Times reported on March 19.”
“Prince is also the founder of the defunct military contract company Blackwater, which, the Myanmar Times says, “was condemned internationally after its employees allegedly opened fire on a Baghdad street in 2007, killing at least 14 civilians.””
“The Myanmar Times quoted Doi Ra, a local Kachin NGO worker, as saying that “we need to know the details of FSG’s operations in Myanmar … the current information is almost non-existent.””
“Doi Ra said civil society organizations were concerned that the company would be used to provide security for large-scale infrastructure projects such as the controversial Myitsone hydro-electric dam project in northern Myanmar.”
“The Chinese embassy in Yangon declined to comment to the Myanmar Times on whether it was using FGS’s services. A press release issued by FSG in December 2016 said the company “will be opening a forward base in the Chinese province Yunnan to “better serve companies in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia” as well as Xinjiang, an autonomous region of China, where 58% of the population are Muslim.”
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