Myanmar: Land Grabbing Tops the List of Rights Violations

Sep 3, 2014 | Eleven Myanmar
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The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has received about 6,000 complaints since its inception in 2011, and most of them involve land confiscation by force.

“Most of the complaints are about land grabbing, as the complainants want to reclaim their land from the government and the military,” said Win Mya, the commission’s chairman. “Others involve businessmen alleged to have unscrupulously secured land.”