Failing land policy in Burma

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This photo was taken on March 12th 2012 and shows over 400 villagers from Shweygin and Kyauk Kyi Townships protesting the Shweygin Dam in Nyaunglebin District/ Eastern Bago Region.

Failing land policy in Burma
By Zin Linn
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OpEdNews Op Eds 2/14/2014 at 20:41:46
Failing land policy in Burma
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From : This photo was taken on March 12th 2012 and shows over 400 villagers from Shweygin and Kyauk Kyi Townships protesting the Shweygin Dam in Nyaunglebin District/ Eastern Bago Region. [Photo: KHRG]
This photo was taken on March 12th 2012 and shows over 400 villagers from Shweygin and Kyauk Kyi Townships protesting the Shweygin Dam in Nyaunglebin District/ Eastern Bago Region. [Photo: KHRG]
(image by Zin Linn)

The earlier time under consecutive military regimes, there were widespread confiscation of land from small and poor farmers in rural Burma (Myanmar) for development ventures and natural resource extraction projects. Regrettably, the rate of confiscation appears to be continuing unrestrained under the existing quasi-civilian government. The unfair practice may step up because of a latest legal structure that guarantees less protection towards destitute farmers than before, as well as escalating foreign investment concerning military conglomerate and cronies.

At the same time, conflicts taking place out of land utilization are mounting not only in natural resource extraction sectors but also in underprivileged people's neighborhoods. Those matters have caused more aggressive violence in several unusual cases. As the President U Thein Sein Government gains recognition right through the international sphere, villagers in country's rustic parts are being displaced and their lands confiscated due to development projects which give little compensation to them.

Myanmar remains a mostly rural country, in which the majority of the population relies on small farms for their livelihoods. Regrettably, the rate of landless farmers has been on the rise for several years. Then, the row of land confiscation seems to be rising now and again.

The local inhabitants repeatedly suffer serious extra human rights abuses, including forced labor, environmental degradation, bodily terrorization and improper detention, and maltreatment of livings along with land confiscation. And their capacity to prevent these impacts is hinder by the lack of information on respective projects and legal barriers made by the authorities get in the way to regain the location.