Myanmar: Kachin Farmers Protest Over Yuzana Land Grabbing

May 29, 2014 | Eleven Media Group
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Farmers from Hukong Valley in Kachin State have held a press briefing on May 28 to denounce the grabbing of their land by the influential Yuzana Company owned by MP Htay Myint.

They claim the company grabbed more than 300,000 acres of ancestral land in the Hukong Valley without proper compensation, and have threatened legal action and protests.