Nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law
Han Win Naung is besieged on his own land. Last September, local administrators in Myanmar’s southern Tanintharyi region put up a sign at the edge of his 5.7-hectare farm that read “Under Management Ownership – Do Not Trespass”. They felled the trees and started building a drug rehabilitation facility and an agriculture training school on opposite ends of his plot. He was eventually informed that the administrators were challenging his claim to the land and had filed charges against him under a controversial law that could see him jailed for three years.
Jacob Goldberg
