Myanmar: Ploughing Protesters Highlight Land Grab Grievances in Myanmar
Apr 6, 2014
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Vincent MacIsaac, South China Morning Post
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Myanmar's swift economic development has been marked by the rise of a new class of political dissidents: the ploughing protesters.
They are farmers and activists angry that developers have snatched away farmland, rights groups say.
Five farmers were arrested on January 2 for trespassing on land they had been farming for decades - the day after President Thein Sein announced on national radio that all of Myanmar's political prisoners had been freed, said Nay Myo Zin, a former military captain who runs the Yangon-based charity Myanmar Social Development Network.