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    Nine sentenced for plough protest in Meikhtila
    May 27, 2015in Land, Lead Story, Mandalay Division, News, Protest213by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    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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    Mayor hits brakes on Rangoon expansion plan
    September 26, 2014in Archives, Development, Lead Story, News, Rangoon10by KYAW ZAYAR WIN / DVB
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    Mayor hits brakes on Rangoon expansion plan

    Rangoon’s divisional government has withdrawn a controversial proposal to extend the city limits, just ahead of a scheduled debate in the regional parliament on Friday.

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    ‘Colonial style’ red tape blamed for delay in returning seized land
    September 23, 2014in Land, Lead Story, News, Politics4by PAING SOE / DVB
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    ‘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.

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    Kanbalu villagers say they’ll get some land back from military
    August 12, 2014in Land, Lead Story, News, Sagaing6by PAING SOE / DVB
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    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.

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    June 3, 2014in Lead Story, News, Property, Video1by DVB
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    Incensed farmers wage war on local fishery

    Farmers in central Burma’s Madaya have vandalised a local fishery pond in a show of anger over the reluctance of the fishery owners to negotiate.

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    May 6, 2014in DVB Debate, Lead Story, News, Video163by DVB
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    DVB Debate: When does the government have the right to take land?

    DVB Debate’s panel discusses land rights issues and why so many victims of land confiscation have still not been compensated.

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