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    Tagged: land grab

    Land Lead Story Military News Shan

    Profit clouds Burma Army pledge to return seized land

    Resolving myriad land disputes, often involving farmers with no documents to back their claims, was a core National League for Democracy campaign pledge. Fulfilling it is proving difficult.

    Land Lead Story News

    Land grabs on the rise as Burma pushes for peace

    Land conflicts in Burma have escalated in recent years, with military and armed groups driving people from their land, and new laws failing to protect farmers, says a rights watchdog.

    Land Lead Story News

    Land grabs could pit NLD against military

    The NLD government’s efforts to resolve thousands of land-grab disputes involving the military could put it on a collision course with Burma’s powerful generals.

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    2015 Elections Land Lead Story News Pegu Division

    3 new parties vow to fight for Burma’s farmers

    More than 400 candidates from three new political parties devoted to representing Burma’s farmers will contest seats in the upcoming November election.

    Farmers from Pantanaw Township rally, demanding the return of land they claim to have been confiscated in 1999-2000. (PHOTO: DVB).

    Irrawaddy Division Land Lead Story News

    Pantanaw farmers rally against land grabs

    Local farmers from the Irrawaddy delta staged a protest rally on Friday, demanding the return of land they claim was confiscated in 1999-2000.

    DOCUMENTARY: ‘With only our voices, what can we do?’ video

    Development Karen Lead Story News Video

    DOCUMENTARY: ‘With only our voices, what can we do?’

    Watch as KHRG takes you into rural southeastern Burma, where forced land confiscation and environmental destruction is taking place under the backdrop of an increasing Burmese military presence.

    Land Lead Story Mandalay Division News Protest

    Nine sentenced for plough protest in Meikhtila

    Court jailed farmers to five months in prison for trespassing and vandalism. Defendants say their lands were seized by senior officials in 1991.

    Land Lead Story News Protest

    Farmer dies after self-immolation land protest

    Myint Aung, 63, doused himself in gasoline and self-immolated after being told that a residential project was planned for land seized two decades ago.

    Land Lead Story News Politics

    150 USDP members resign in land grab protest

    Villagers quit amid claims that the party failed to assist them in claiming back land they were denied in 1992.

    Analysis Lead Story News Protest

    Protest without imprisonment

    Land disputes, industrial action, and student activists: Bo Gyi of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners on the right to protest.

    Lead Story News Protest Rangoon

    Michaungkan protestors evicted from City Hall … again

    Fourteen protestors and four street vendors are arrested as police break up the Michaungkan rally camp in front of Rangoon City Hall.

    Lead Story Military News Protest Rangoon

    Six month jail-time for 14 Michaungkan activists

    Fourteen people, including a 68-year-old woman, sentenced to prison time for their part in protesting a historic land-grab in Rangoon.

    Land Lead Story News Tenasserim

    Tavoy farmers in land dispute stand-off

    A stand-off continues on Wednesday between farmers and construction company workers at an urban development project in Tavoy in Tenasserim Division.

    Pegu fury over generational land claim video

    Land Lead Story News Video

    Pegu fury over generational land claim

    A Farmers in Nattalin, Pegu Division turned out in their hundreds to demand the return of land seized by the Burmese army 25 years ago.

    Karen Land Lead Story News

    10 Hpa-an land claim protestors sentenced

    The ten were part of more than 100 local villagers who attended a rally in Hpa-an on 25 August calling for the return of lands they allege were seized from them by the military government in 1986.

    Pegu protesters demand hospital transfer for ill prisoner video

    Land Lead Story News Pegu Division Video

    Pegu protesters demand hospital transfer for ill prisoner

    A candlelight demonstration was held in Pegu for Daw Nyo, whose health is deteriorating in prison.

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    Seven Kanbalu plough protestors released from jail

    Seven farmers from Kanbalu in Sagaing Division, jailed for staging plough protests on confiscated land, were released from prison after serving their full three-month sentences.

    Lead Story News Property Rangoon

    Michaungkan activists ordered to leave park by 3 Oct

    Protestors that have been occupying a sidewalk of downtown Rangoon for more than six months have been given a deadline of 3 October to vacate the site and dismantle their encampment.

    Lead Story News Politics Property Rangoon

    Rangoon expansion plan brought before regional parliament

    A controversial urban expansion plan for Burma’s former capital, Rangoon, was brought before an emergency session of the regional parliament on Monday.

    Interview Land Lead Story News

    Land disputes must be solved right and fast: Dr Thaung Htun

    DVB recently spoke with Dr. Thaung Tun, one of Burma’s leading advocates for farmers’ rights and fair land use policies.

    Lead Story News Rangoon

    Michaungkan activist sentenced to 8 months

    Land rights activist Sein Than was sentenced to four months in prison on Wednesday, lengthening his term to eight months following another ruling issued on Tuesday.

    Lead Story News

    Karenni State villagers ask Min Aung Hlaing to let them farm

    Local villagers in Karenni State’s Hpruso Township sent a letter to Burma’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing for permission to farm on land that was allegedly seized from them by the Burmese Army in 1993.

    Land Lead Story News

    Farmers sentenced 8 months for Mandalay plough protest

    Local farmers from Mandalay Division’s Sintgai Township were sentenced to prison terms of up to eight months on Tuesday under charges of trespassing and destroying property while staging a plough protest in May.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Human rights abuses still ‘rampant’ in Burma: Report

    An alliance of rights groups revealed on Tuesday that they have documented 103 cases of human rights abuse in Burma since the start of 2014.

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    Kanbalu farmers demand release of 57 jailed ‘plough protestors’

    Some 1,500 farmers rallied for the release of 57 jailed land rights activists in central Burma’s Sagaing Division on Wednesday.

    Latpadaung Lead Story News

    Latpadaung farmers clash with police over grazing rights

    Security personnel and villagers were injured in a skirmish between farmers and police near the Latpadaung copper mine on Sunday, when villagers attempted to herd cattle in the area against official orders.

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    20 Kanbalu plough protestors transferred to distant prisons

    Around 20 farmers from Kanbalu, jailed for holding a “plough protest” in March, have this week been transferred to prisons far from their homes.

    Land Lead Story News

    More farmers jailed for Sagaing land protests

    Eighteen farmers in Kanbalu, Sagaing Division, have been sentenced to jail terms of up to three and half years for ploughing seized lands, a newly popular form of protest in Burma.

    Farmers hold massive march in Mandalay over land grab video

    Lead Story News Video

    Farmers hold massive march in Mandalay over land grab

    Around 1,500 farmers from Mandalay Division marched through Pyin Oo Lwin demanding the return of 300,000 acres of farmland allegedly confiscated by the government and private companies.

    Dawei Land Lead Story News

    Tavoy farmers charged with ‘disturbing’ authorities over disputed land

    Twenty farmers were charged for “disturbing” authorities in Tenasserim Division’s capital of Tavoy.

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