Hundreds of families evicted from Mingalardon
Heavy machinery reduced the homes of several hundred families to rubble in Yangon’s Mingalardon township early on 26 January, leaving residents in the rain with their meager possessions.
The families were designated as squatters on the 560 acres of land leased to military-owned Myanmar Economic Holdings Company Ltd (MEHC). Nearly 500 houses had been built on the land that the company says it has leased since 1993 on a 30-year contract.
