Description:
"In a written statement during its September 2011 session, the Asian Legal Resource Centre
alerted the Human Rights Council to the dangers posed to the rights of people in Myanmar
by the convergence of military, business and administrative interests in new projects aimed
at displacing cultivators and residents from their farms and homes. At that time, the Centre
wrote that whereas seizure of land has long been practiced in Myanmar, in recent years its
dynamics have changed, from direct seizure by army units and government departments, to
seizure by army-owned companies, joint ventures and other economically and politically
powerful operations with connections to the military. The ALRC cited details of two cases
which it had followed closely: the encroachment onto land of farmers in Kanma Township
of Magway Region, followed by the attack upon and prosecution of a number of those who
resisted the encroachment; and, and an attempt to demolish an historic Muslim cemetery in
Mandalay to make the land available for commercial use...".....Written NGO statement to the 20th Session of UN Human Rights Council.
Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre via UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/20/NGO/33)
Date of Publication:
2012-06-11
Date of entry:
2015-09-20
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