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    Tagged: land seizure

    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.

    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.

    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.

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    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 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.

    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.

    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 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.

    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.

    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.

    Land Lead Story News Shan

    Shan State villagers barred from farming land by military

    The military tells Pekon Township farmers that they must renounce ownership of the land in order to farm.

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    Land Lead Story News Photos

    Suu Kyi listens to land grab victims

    Land grab victims from Rangoon’s Mayangon Township rally in front of the University Avenue home of Aung San Suu Kyi, where they chanted and held banners requesting the assistance of the Burmese opposition leader.

    Land Lead Story News Politics

    Michaungkan villagers restart sit-in protest

    More than 100 residents of Michaungkan in the eastern suburbs of Rangoon have restored their rally camp, this time at Maha Bandula Park in the city’s downtown area.

    Land Lead Story News Politics

    Tenasserim villagers protest military land grab

    Thayetchaung residents protest the 1990 seizure of more than 900 acres of farmland by the military and government to build a railroad.

    Land Lead Story News Politics

    Pegu farmers injured in police crackdown

    Three farmers are injured in Pegu where police broke up a protest site of about 100 locals who had been demanding the return of farmland they say was confiscated by the army in 2000.

    Land Law Lead Story News Politics

    Families denied access to Myint Myint Aye, other hunger strikers

    Myint Myint Aye’s brother says the families have been denied access to three land rights protestors and are worried about their health given that it is nearly a week since they declared they were starting a hunger strike.

    Land Lead Story News Politics

    Michaungkan protestors agree to close rally camp for three months

    More than 200 villagers from Michaungkan in the eastern suburbs of Rangoon have agreed to close their rally camp after 17 days of protesting against a 1990 land confiscation by the Burmese military.

    Land Law Lead Story News Politics

    Land grab activist vows to go on hunger strike

    Activist Myint Myint Aye, who was detained six months ago for assisting farmers fighting against land grabs in central Burma’s Pegu division, has vowed to stage a hunger strike against her arbitrary detention.

    Michaungkan protestors face forceful removal video

    Land Lead Story News Politics Video

    Michaungkan protestors face forceful removal

    Rangoon township authorities have issued an ultimatum to more than 200 Michaungkan villagers to disband their protest site at the town’s Myasaryan pagoda by 6pm on Monday or else face forceful removal.

    Law Lead Story News

    23 farmers sued for ‘trespassing’ on their own land

    Twenty-three farmers who staged a “ploughing protest” in Rangoon’s Dagon-Seikkan township are being sued for trespassing by the Green Asia Company, an arm of Asia World.

    Lead Story Natural resources News

    Latpadaung committee pledges US$1.68 million for local development

    The Latpadaung implementation committee says that a US$1.68 million budget has been allocated for regional development, including programs of job creation for locals; education; healthcare; electricity supply; supplying potable water; and transportation.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Tavoy farmers demand return of lands seized in 1990

    Local farmers in the Tenasserim division coastal town stage a protest on Monday morning demanding a return of farmlands confiscated by the military and associate companies in 1990, allegedly without the landowners’ knowledge in many cases.

    Lead Story News Property

    Govt says it’s working to return confiscated lands to farmers

    Burma’s Land Utilisation committee vows that it is working to resolve all cases of land grabs and return seized lands to their rightful owners before the end of the government’s term in 2015.

    Business Environment News

    Farmers protest land confiscation plan

    Farmers protest in Bassein, Irrawaddy division, plan to confiscate 800-acres of their farmlands near Ngwesaung

    Business News

    Ex-Rangoon mayor offers help to farmers

    Aung Thein Lin, former Mayor of Rangoon told farmers he would help them in land confiscation case with a big hotel group reportedly attempting to seize 200 acres

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    Farmers detained for reporting army abuses to ILO

    Nov 04, 2008 (DVB)-Three farmers who reported the seizure of their farms to the International Labour Organisation’s office in Rangoon had been detained by the army, according to a local[…]

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