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...Beginning in December 2010, Burmese Navy Unit No. 43, under the
command of Ka Dike-based government navy regional command head
quarters, began to confiscate the rubber plantations and household plots of
villagers on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island, Yebyu Township, Tennaserim
Division. Since then, all land on which red signboards were placed by the
navy has been confiscated. This report documents the confiscation of over
1,000 acres of land on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island. However, HURFOM found
that Navy Unit No. 43 has surveyed and marked out a total of another 3,000
acres of land to be consficated from the residents of Kywe Thone Nyi Ma
Island and the easterly neighboring villages across the water in Yebyu
Township.
Officials from Navy Unit No. 43 explained that the land seized would
be used as a training field for military skills training and constructing army
barracks and hostels. Land was confiscated from around 240 rubber
plantation owners without compensation, and a decree was issued banning
landowners from cultivating or entering their plots. Seizures ranged from
four to ten acres and consisted of already-in-production rubber plantations
and paddy lands that provided villagers in the area with sustainable incomes
and future monetary security. Without means to support themselves. they
are unable to feed their families and send their children to school. And in
some cases, they are forced from their homes...
