Akyab, July 21: "People?s land beside the Akyab- Rangoon motor road continues to be confiscated by the Burmese army for army-owned teak plantations, reports our correspondent. A villager from Yota yoke village said, ? About 50 yards of land were confiscated on the Kyuk Taw- Ponna Guan roadside which is located on the Akyab-Rangoon road, but people could not get any compensation from the army.” Most confiscated lands are paddy farms but there are also many fruit gardens belonging to Arakanese people who earn their living from the gardens. At present the army is demolishing all trees and houses by bulldozer on the confiscated lands. The plantation of teak will start within this rainy season, said a farmer..."