"1. The Kya-khaung East Field 118-119 in Kyone-ta-ne Administration unit,Danubyu Township, Aye-ya-waddy Division was forestland prior to 1961.Farmers cleared the land for cultivating their crops and registered their claim as first settlers with the Land Records Department. They have been farming the land until the present military dictators government. 2. This area consists of about 126 acres and there were 13 first comers. Our information is that they have fulfilled their obligations with regard to payment of taxes and supply of "duty paddy" to the government. 3. However, in 1991-1992, U Htun Aye, the Danubyu township authority chairman, illegally appropriated the land for himself and carried on the cultivation. The farmers did nothing because they were very afraid..."