Word: tenasserim
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Much like the Ecuadorian Amazon, the area of Burma across which the pipelines cut is biologically rich and home to many disenfranchised ethnic minority groups. The Tenasserim rain forest is the largest intact rain forest in southeast Asia, home to such endangered species as the white rhinoceros and the tiger. Texaco's track record in Ecuador demonstrates that the corporation is not likely to be a good environmental steward; no independent environmental impact assessments have been conducted in the pipeline region...
...Burma, a Jap army had been routed with 128,000 counted dead; only disease-ridden remnants were left (except on the Tenasserim coast) to surrender to Admiral Mountbatten's Twelfth and Fourteenth Armies and to the Burmese National Army...
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