Mizzima News: Farmers take tiger reserve land-grab case to state court – Khaing Kyaw Mya

1 September 2010, 1:37 pm

Seventeen farmers from Kachin State in northern Burma are taking their fight over land seized in the Hukawng Valley “tiger reserve” by a junta-linked tycoon to the state’s Supreme Court tomorrow.The farmers, among 148 from five villages in the valley who protested in June against land confiscations by the Yuzana Company run by junta crony [...]... Read More »

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