Myanmar: Farmers Displaced by Industrial Park Project

Jul 13, 2015 | Than Naing Soe, Myanmar Times
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It’s groundnut planting season, but U Sein Paw won’t be sowing any seeds today, or any other day. His daughter was arrested for harrowing what he still thinks of as his field, and to secure her release U Sein Paw had to sign a pledge not to work the land anymore. His former farm is now encompassed in the Mandalay Myotha Industrial Park project, according to the township land management committee, which extracted the pledge from him under threat of further legal action.