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    Tagged: land grabs

    Land Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    Police break up farmers’ protest camp in Mandalay

    Police forcibly broke up a sit-in last night, when they cleared farmers, who were protesting land grabs, from a site in central Mandalay. The farmers had been occupying the protest[…]

    Farmers Land Lead Story News Shan

    Freed farmers renew fight against Burmese Army over land

    Farmers locked in a land dispute with Burma’s armed forces pledged to renew their fight after being released from jail on Friday, in a case testing leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s resolve to challenge the military’s economic interests.

    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.

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    Arakan Business Lead Story Natural resources News

    Kyaukphyu farmers spurn compensation, say CNPC trying to trick them

    Twenty-one local farmers spurn a compensation ceremony in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, when they find that the event was being staged to conclude the matter without attempting to rectify damage to their fields.

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    Sagaing farmers call for compensation, closure of nickel mine

    Residents from 22 villages around the town of Tigyaing said they lost a total of 16,632 acres to land grabs by the military government between 2005 and 2008 to make way for the Tagaung Nickel Mining Project and other ventures.

    Ethnic issues Farmers Land Lead Story News

    Ethnic farmers prefer communal land, says CSO report

    A majority of ethnic farmers in Burma would prefer to share community land rather than own their title deed to a plot, according to the findings of the Ethnic Community Development Forum.

    Land Lead Story News

    Veteran activist detained on old charge

    Labour activist Su Su Nway has again been arrested by authorities, this time in Mandalay, for organising a land grab protest without police permission.

    Land Lead Story News

    Su Su Nway: Ploughing a new direction

    DVB spoke to the founder and leader of the Myanmar Farmers Union about her organisation’s aims and future plans.

    Karenni Land Lead Story News Protest

    ‘Plough protest’ supporters rally in Loikaw

    Following last week’s sentencing of three local farmers, a Karenni court finds six more guilty of trespassing, prompting local supporters to stage a rally.

    Karenni Land Lead Story News

    Anger as ‘plough protest’ farmers found guilty

    As many as 500 villagers protested in front of a township court after three of their peers were sentenced for their part in a symbolic “plough protest”.

    Lead Story Media News

    Myanmar Times apologises for land grab cartoon

    An abject retraction is issued after Burma’s military authorities object to the sketch, which appeared to ridicule the army for confiscating land.

    Lead Story News Protest Rangoon

    Rangoon City Hall protestors forcibly evicted

    Michaungkan villagers protesting government’s seizure of their land dispersed after nine months of peaceful demonstrations.

    Latpadaung’s first fatality as riot police move in video

    Land Latpadaung Lead Story News Protest

    Latpadaung’s first fatality as riot police move in

    A video appears to show riot police firing at fleeing villagers at Monday’s protest in Latpadaung where one woman killed and several others injured.

    Land Lead Story News Protest

    Michaungkan protesters light candles in front of Rangoon City Hall

    Michaungkan villagers protesting government land grabs staged a candlelight vigil in front of Rangoon City Hall.

    Analysis Contributor Land Lead Story News

    Protecting profits over people

    Burma’s National Land Use Policy must first address the discrepancies between protecting vulnerable peoples’ land use rights and claims before creating an enabling investment environment.

    Land Lead Story News Pegu Division

    Nattalin farmers march for misappropriated lands

    Around 450 acres of land belonging to 123 farmers in Dhammange, Phalanbin, Jobintha and Shasaybo villages were allegedly confiscated in 1991 by the Burmese army.

    Land Lead Story News Rangoon

    Michaungkan protestors stand fast as deadline passes

    Dozens of villagers defy a 3 October deadline ordered by local police to dismantle their camp and leave their protest site in Rangoon city centre.

    Land Lead Story News Politics

    ‘Colonial style’ red tape blamed for delay in returning seized land

    Burma’s parliamentary Farmland Investigation Commission has cited the overwhelming layers of bureaucracy as the foremost cause for delays in returning confiscated land to its original owners.

    Land Lead Story News

    Farmers face eviction in Mandalay

    Twenty-eight farmers near Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay Division, are facing eviction after years of property battles, villagers say.

    Karenni Land Lead Story News

    Protesting Karenni farmers threatened by army commander

    Karenni farmers, who sent a letter to Commander-in-chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing asking him to intervene in a local land dispute, say they have now been threatened by local military commanders.

    Karen Land Lead Story News

    Hpa-an farmers march for return of seized lands

    More than a hundred farmers from nine villages in Hpa-an Township, Karen State, staged a rally on Monday demanding the return of lands they say were seized by the military many years ago.

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    Hearing postponed for Kanbalu farmers

    A court hearing for more than 170 farmers from Kanbalu Township, who were charged for conducting plough protests, is postponed after their lawyers petitioned for jailed farmers to be included in the proceedings.

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    Kanbalu villagers say they’ll get some land back from military

    According to Sagaing villager, 384 acres of land will be returned by military, which confiscated 3,000 acres in Hyaukshai village in 1999 for a sugarcane plantation project.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Tavoy farmers jailed for ‘disturbing’ officials

    Farmers in Tenasserim Division’s Tavoy [Dawei] received various sentences for clashing with government officials over a land confiscation case earlier this year.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Three farmers sentenced to three years for plough protest in Sagaing

    Three farmers in Sagaing Division were sentenced to three years in prison for “trespassing” after staging a “plough protest” in Kanbalu.

    Land Lead Story News Politics

    Burmese army plans to return only a quarter of seized land nationwide

    The Burmese army plans to return less than 125,000 acres of farmland to its original owners, a Ministry of Defence official said on Wednesday.

    Land Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    Su Su Nway charged in Mandalay for protesting without permission

    Police authorities in Pyin Oo Lwin pressed charges against labour activist Su Su Nway for organising a massive protest with getting permission.

    Land Lead Story News

    Mandalay villagers stage plough protest for cotton fields

    Local residents in Mandalay Division’s Myittha Township are staging a plough protest to demand the return of farmland.

    Land Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    Mandalay farmers begin ‘plough protest’ on 3,000 acres

    Some 800 farmers in Mandalay Division begin ploughing more than 3,000 acres of farmland as a protest for its return since it was allegedly confiscated by the military government about 40 years ago.

    Karenni Land Lead Story News

    Farmers plough on in Karenni land grab case

    More than 200 farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the town of Hpruso in Karenni State against land grabs by the Burmese military by marching to the confiscated farmland in question to plough it.

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