Myanmar: Parliamentary Committee: 6,000 Land Confiscation Complaints Yet to Be Addressed

Apr 27, 2016 | Tin Htet Paing, The Irrawaddy
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Some 6,000 outstanding complaints of farmland seizure from the previous parliamentary body are slated to be investigated by the current legislative body, the Upper House’s farmer affairs committee said on Wednesday. “About 6,000 letters of complaint [out of an estimated 18,000] are to be handled this parliamentary term,” committee chair Ba Myo Thein told The Irrawaddy, adding that since early April alone, the new committee had received over 80 additional letters.