Myanmar: Rangoon Land Protesters Undeterred by Late-Night Eviction

Mar 31, 2014 | Kyaw Hsu Mon, The Irrawaddy
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RANGOON — Evicted former residents of Thingangyun Township have vowed to continue their sit-in protest in central Rangoon, despite an attempted forced eviction in the early hours Sunday.

A group of hundreds of people, who were kicked out of Michaungkan village by the Burma Army in the early 1990s and moved to townships on the city’s outskirts, set up their third protest camp last week. They have been demonstrating for more than a year to get their land back, but promises from authorities to find a solution to their demands have not been kept.