Yuzana Company Grabs Land Of 1,000 Families In Hukawng Valley, Burma

Yuzana Company Grabs Land Of 1,000 Families In Hukawng Valley, Burma   In a land grab of massive proportions, huge tracts of land of nearly 1,000 families in Hukawng Valley in Burma’s northern Kachin State have been seized by the Rangoon-based Yuzana Company backed by the country’s ruling junta, said local sources.   A valley farmer said tens of thousands of acres of land--- active crop plantation and paddy fields, owned by people in five Kachin villages between Nawng Mai and Danai --- Wara...

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