Myanmar: Farmers Sentenced to 8 Months for Mandalay Plough Protest

Aug 21, 2014 | DVB Media
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Local farmers from Mandalay Division’s Sintgai Township were sentenced to prison terms of up to eight months on Tuesday under charges of trespassing and destroying property while staging a plough protest in May.

More than 1,200 acres were confiscated and handed over to the Burmese Army in 1989, who began renting it out to private companies. In May 2014, hundreds of villagers began ploughing the disputed land to signify that they had original ownership.