Advocacy group Human Rights Watch has criticised slow progress in addressing historical land grabs, which continue to leave large numbers of people destitute, and inadequate legal reform in protecting land tenure.
Some 350 farmers from Burma’s Mandalay Division are facing court cases related to land-grabbing, most of them brought since Aung San Suu Kyi’s government took power a year ago, lawyers and activists said Thursday.
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.
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.
The new government will have to address numerous junta-era land grabs, such as in Ayeyawaddy Region’s Pantanaw Township where hundreds of farmers lost land.
At the expense of poor farmers, land grabs have been on the rise since conflict re-erupted in Kachin State.
Irrawaddy Division Land Lead Story News
Local farmers from the Irrawaddy delta staged a protest rally on Friday, demanding the return of land they claim was confiscated in 1999-2000.
Villagers quit amid claims that the party failed to assist them in claiming back land they were denied in 1992.
An abject retraction is issued after Burma’s military authorities object to the sketch, which appeared to ridicule the army for confiscating land.
Deputy Minister for Construction Soe Tint weighed in on the land confiscation issue in parliament on Tuesday, saying, “Farmland loss is due to establishing new satellite towns in public interests,”[…]
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.
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.
Almost 90 million kyat (over US$90,000) will be provided to the victims of a 1997 land confiscation issue in Hlaing Tharyar, Rangoon Division. The settlement came after farmers ended a[…]
Dawei Development Land Lead Story News
Locals in Tavoy [Dawei] in Tenasserim Division have vowed to intensify protests demanding the return of farmlands, which they say was confiscated without their prior knowledge.
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.
Residents of Rangoon Division’s Michaungkan village have vowed to restart their protest after talks with government authorities and MPs broke down without agreement on 1 April. More than 200 villagers[…]
Land Lead Story News Property Video
Over 200 acres of land confiscated by the military is given back to villagers in Myanaung township.
The Burmese Parliament on Thursday called on relevant government bodies to implement settlement claims over land confiscation cases by September at the latest, though the number of cases remains disputed.
Thayetchaung residents protest the 1990 seizure of more than 900 acres of farmland by the military and government to build a railroad.
Land Law Lead Story News Politics
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.
Around 400 residents in Rangoon’s Thingangyun township have received funeral rites from Buddhist monks, saying they are ready to die protesting for the return of cultivated land which was confiscated from them by the military.
Features Lead Story Property Video
Farmers in Dalla township are forced to relocate after the Burmese military confiscated 500 acres of land to make way for a naval storage base.
Speaker Shwe Mann urges the government to expedite the return of land – specifically land left unused after being confiscated – to its rightful owners as per a parliamentary commission’s recommendations.
By ALI FOWLE In the run up to the South East Asian Games, due to be held in Burma at the end of this year, locals in Irrawaddy division are being[…]
Land grabs have intensified in eastern Burma after a ceasefire between Karen ethnic minority rebels and the army paved the way for developers to enter the resource-rich area
Burma has become the “latest flashpoint in an alarming trend” of global land grabs, which continue to wreak havoc on economic development and human rights around the world
About 300 farmers from Rangoon’s Dagon Seikkan township demonstrated last Friday over land grabbing as an official in Pegu division warned farmers to stop ploughing confiscated land
Judges order Yuzana to pay less compensation for confiscation of villages and 200,000 acres of land than initially offered by company
Farmers compensated less than one percent of estimated cost of land confiscated in 2006 by the Burmese army in Magwe division
Aug 13, 2007 (DVB)
