Land tensions rise after talks snub
Already tired of lengthy delays on the promised return of confiscated land, farmers in Pyin Oo Lwin district are now furious officials stood them up at a negotiation meeting.
The farmers said they were summoned by the Township Farmland Management and Statistics Department to discuss a plot in Lak Kaung Lay village, Madaya township, on 11 December. Just days earlier, the management committee had reported that the farmland should be returned.
