Myanmar: Myanmar Government to Return Seized Land to Farmers in Sagaing Region

May 25, 2016 | Radio Free Asia
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Myanmar’s government plans to return 2,500 acres of confiscated land to farmers in Tant-Se township in the country’s northwestern Sagaing region, more than 35 years after it was taken, an agriculture ministry official said Tuesday. In 1980, the Burma Socialist Programme Party confiscated nearly 4,000 acres of the township’s land in Shwebo district for a government farm project named “Wet Toe,” Win Tun, deputy minister for agriculture, livestock and irrigation, told lawmakers in the lower house of parliament in Naypyidaw.