22nd April 2014
Local farmers of Madaya, Mandalay division have been charged with crimes ranging from sedition to trespassing and staging
unauthorised protest after they took up tools and farmed land they claim is rightfully theirs.
Nineteen of 20 protesting farmers will face court on Tuesday.
Over 600 acres of farmland in Kyauksayit and Yaynanthar villages of Madaya, Mandalay are said to have been confiscated from 96 local
farmers in 1986 under Ne Win's Burmese Road to Socialism. The land was then distributed to other tenant farmers in the establishment
of agricultural cooperatives.
Ref: dvb.no
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