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    Police break up farmers' protest camp in Mandalay
    July 28, 2017in Land, Lead Story, Mandalay Division, News68by DVB
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    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…

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    Farmer dies after self-immolation land protest
    May 22, 2015in Land, Lead Story, News, Protest427by NANG MYA NADI and AYE NAI
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    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.

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    10 Hpa-an land claim protestors sentenced
    November 1, 2014in Karen, Land, Lead Story, News111by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    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…

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    Michaungkan protestors stand fast as deadline passes
    October 4, 2014in Land, Lead Story, News, Rangoon2by THANOE WAI
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    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.

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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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    Hpa-an farmers march for return of seized lands
    August 25, 2014in Karen, Land, Lead Story, News84by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    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…

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