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Kayin farmers criminalised for fighting land grabs: HRW report

4 November 2016
Myanmar Times
Agricultural commodities, processing and products / Agricultural management systems and technologies / Agriculture / Animal products / Civil and political rights / Communal land / Crop products and commodities / Economic, social and cultural rights / Human rights / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Land trades / Land transfers / State private land
Civil and political rights / Communal land / Economical social and cultural rights / Human Rights / land / Land classifications / Land policy and administration / Myanmar / Phil Robertson / State private land

Kayin State villagers are losing their land and are routinely persecuted through threats, arson and arbitrary arrest if they attempt to fight the unlawful seizures, according to a report released by an international rights group on November 3. Around 70 percent of the people in ...

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