Myanmar’s government plans to return 2,500 acres of confiscated land to farmers in Tant-Se township in the country’s northwestern Sagaing region, more than 35 years after it was taken, an agriculture ministry official said Tuesday.
In 1980, the Burma Socialist Programme Party confiscated nearly 4,000 acres of the township’s land in Shwebo district for a government farm project named “Wet Toe,” Win Tun, deputy minister for agriculture, livestock and irrigation, told lawmakers in the lower house of parliament in Naypyidaw.
The party was formed by the regime led by military commander Ne Win that seized power in 1962, and was the only political party legally permitted to exist from 1974 until it broke up after a popular uprising in 1988. It instituted socialist policies that included land seizures and control of agricultural production. (Courtesy of rfa.org)
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