The Burmese Army unit led by Lt. Gen Maung Bo has confiscated nearly 1,000 acres of land in Mon State for new military bases in southern Burma recently.
The Burmese Army unit led by Lt. Gen Maung Bo has confiscated nearly 1,000 acres of land in Mon State for new military bases in southern Burma recently.
Physic nuts will be planted on the seized land. It is the biggest project the regime has conceived and is encouraging people to cultivate the nut on their land and also in the military barracks in the area.
Lt. Gen Maung Bo made a lot of trips around parts of Burma to select sites for physic nut cultivation and confiscated many acres of land belonging to residents. The junta controlled newspapers often report that the state is planting physic nuts on uncultivated land.
According to villagers, Lt. Gen Maung Bo ordered seizures in an area from Nut Kyi Chaung to Nwa Labou Taung pagoda along the highway on the Moulmein-Rangoon stretch in Paung Township about 13 miles from Moulmein, the capital of Mon State.
The land belonged to villagers from seven villages in this area and they had been growing rubber. Some of the rubber plantations are almost five years old. They also had orchards.
The authorities have told the local people and land owners in the area not to touch anything on the land.
"We have not got any compensation for our land. We cannot even visit our plantations. If some one destroys the plantation, the former owners will have to pay fine to the authorities," a villager who had land confiscated said.
"According to our estimates this is the biggest confiscation of land in upper Moulmein after we started documenting seizures from 1999 to 2003 in lower Moulmein in a public report called "No Land To Farm," said Nai Aue Mon a human right activist of the Human Rights Foundation of MonLand (HURFOM).
Physic nuts will be planted on the seized land. It is the biggest project the regime has conceived and is encouraging people to cultivate the nut on their land and also in the military barracks in the area.
Lt. Gen Maung Bo made a lot of trips around parts of Burma to select sites for physic nut cultivation and confiscated many acres of land belonging to residents. The junta controlled newspapers often report that the state is planting physic nuts on uncultivated land.
According to villagers, Lt. Gen Maung Bo ordered seizures in an area from Nut Kyi Chaung to Nwa Labou Taung pagoda along the highway on the Moulmein-Rangoon stretch in Paung Township about 13 miles from Moulmein, the capital of Mon State.
The land belonged to villagers from seven villages in this area and they had been growing rubber. Some of the rubber plantations are almost five years old. They also had orchards.
The authorities have told the local people and land owners in the area not to touch anything on the land.
"We have not got any compensation for our land. We cannot even visit our plantations. If some one destroys the plantation, the former owners will have to pay fine to the authorities," a villager who had land confiscated said.
"According to our estimates this is the biggest confiscation of land in upper Moulmein after we started documenting seizures from 1999 to 2003 in lower Moulmein in a public report called "No Land To Farm," said Nai Aue Mon a human right activist of the Human Rights Foundation of MonLand (HURFOM).
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