Land issues make up 99 percent of the complaints lodged by the public to the Karen State government’s Guarantees, Pledges, Undertakings Vetting, Complaints, and Pleas Committee within this year, the committee’s chair U Saw Hla Myint said.
“Farmland makes up 99 percent. [We] received at least five to ten cases each month. The rest is only one or two [complaints],” he said to KIC News on October 12.
The land complaints include issues with the military, the government, ethnic armed organizations, and companies.
Besides working for the government’s guarantees, pledges, and undertakings, the committee also has to hold hearings, give reviews, and do field inspections based on the complaints lodged by the public and give recommendations on the findings and transfer them to the government.
The complaint committee has received 99 complaints from January to July this year and it has finished working on four complaints, transferred eight complaints to respective departments and is working on 87 complaints.
The government’s Guarantees, Pledges, Undertakings Vetting, Complaints, and Pleas Committee was established in February 2016 to solve public sufferings.
