Myanmar: Shan State Farmers Summoned to Court for Using Land Claimed by Myanmar Army

Jul 26, 2016 | Radio Free Asia
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One hundred farmers from a village in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state appeared in court on Monday after the national army filed a lawsuit against them for planting on confiscated land in a move that runs counter to the government's efforts to return land that the military previously grabbed from locals during the country’s junta era, a villager said. The army’s Eastern Command confiscated 2,000 acres of land in Ye Pu (Hot Water) village in the state’s Taunggyi township in 2004, during the rule of a military junta that controlled the country for 50 years until 2011, said villager Maw Maw Win.