Myanmar: Parliament Cancels Discussions on Letpadaungtaung Copper Mine Project, Military Land Seizures

Mar 11, 2016 | Eleven Myanmar
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Win Myint, the speaker of Lower House, announced to MPs at a regular parliament session that the discussions on the Letpadaungtaung copper mine project and the government’s seizure of 60,000 acres of farmland for Defence Industry No 20, which were brought up following the submission of an urgent proposal by MP Khin San Hlaing, have been cancelled. MP Khin San Hlaing (NLD) of Pale Constituency submitted an urgent proposal on February 25 urging the Union government to examine the hasty sales, leases, transfers and privatisations of state-owned lands, factories and businesses with little oversight. The proposal also calls for the investigation of the removal of temporary dwellings and their residents. The MP said these moves should only have been made with the consent of the new government.