Myanmar: MP Proposes Faster Process for Resolving Land Dispute Cases

Apr 28, 2014 | Hein Ko Soe, Mizzima
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MP and member of the Farmland Investigation Commission is calling for changes in handling land disputes which he says will make the process faster and more effective.

Pyithu Hluttaw MP U Aung Thein Lin (Union Solidarity and Development Party, South Okkalapa, Yangon Region) told Mizzima on April 27 that his suggestion involved the adoption of an arbitration-based system.

U Aung Thein Lin said he would be recommending to the commission’s chair, U Tin Htut, that the government-appointed Land Use Management Committee host meetings that bring together each side involved in land disputes as well as the local MP.

U Aung Thein Lin said he would be making the recommendation because he doubted whether the committee would meet its deadline to resolve the 745 cases referred from the commission by a September 2014 deadline.