Myanmar: No Quick Fix for Rangoon Land-Grab Victims: Govt

Aug 29, 2014 | Yen Snaing, The Irrawaddy
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RANGOON — Rangoon’s divisional government has said hundreds of land-grab cases brought to its attention will not be resolved by the end of its current term in early 2016, an admission that may position the issue prominently in next year’s elections.

Soe Min, the divisional government’s minister of agriculture and livestock, said during a parliamentary session on Wednesday that victims of land confiscation, many of them farmers, would not likely see their cases addressed before the end of its term. The minister said the fact that many land confiscations dated back to Burma’s former military regime was partly to blame for the lack of resolution.