Hpa-an Situation Update: Hlaingbwe, Don Yin and Hti Lon townships, April 2014
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Date of publication
juli 2014
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ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:75302
This Situation Update describes land confiscation committed by local armed actors in Hlaingbwe, Don Yin and Hti Lon townships, Hpa-an District during 2014: Tatmadaw soldiers destroyed approximately 3,000 acres of villagers’ paddy fields during the construction of a dam in Hti Lon village...
In the western part of Maw Ko village tract, a monk, coordinating with the Border Guard Force, confiscated villagers’ paddy fields and plantations. They also cut down trees which villagers use to make roofing for their houses and turned the area into a rubber plantation...
Uncultivated land belonging to villagers who had emigrated to Thailand was confiscated even though the villagers held formal land titles.