Myanmar: Mandalay Farmers, Monks, Students Call for Constitutional Reform, Land Rights Protection

Jan 16, 2015 | Zarni Mann, The Irrawaddy
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MANDALAY — About 1,000 farmers, students, labourers, Buddhist monks and community leaders gathered in Mandalay on Friday to call for better protection of land rights, democratic reforms and abolishment of Burma’s military-drafted Constitution.

At a five-hour rally next to U Pwar Pagoda, senior monks, farmers’ representatives and student leaders took turns to give speeches demanding broad political reforms from President Thein Sein’s nominally-civilian government.