Myanmar: Courts, Cops, Cronies—The Three C's Driving Farmers to Ruin, and Jail

May 13, 2014 | Asian Human Rights Commission
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The frenzy of land grabbing in Burma (Myanmar) amid the country's transition to nominally democratic government shows no signs of abating. Reports of the number of cases and scale of "land confiscation"—a euphemism for theft by government authorities and army-linked cronies—continue to grow. At the same time, conflicts over land have escalated as farmers attempt to regain land taken from them in earlier years.