Myanmar: Three Farmers Sentenced to Three Years for Plough Protest in Sagaing

Jul 16, 2014 | Paing Soe, Democratic Voice of Burma
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Three farmers in Sagaing Division were sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for “trespassing” and about 300 more face charges for staging a plough protest in Kanbalu on farmland that was confiscated by the Burmese military.

In March, the farmers demonstrated for the return of their land in the town of Kanbalu by ploughing the farmland, a common last resort for farmers who had their land confiscated by the Burmese Army during the military regime. The Burmese Army’s 2^nd Logistics Battalion confiscated the Kanbalu land in 1997, and is currently operating it as a sugar cane plantation project.