Myanmar’s freshly elected government has formed a new committee to tackle a land-grabbing pandemic that still plagues the impoverished Southeast Asian country despite a recent transition away from military dictatorship.
Shortly after being elected in a landslide victory in late 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party announced that it would prioritise bringing an end to the prolific and violent spate of land seizures. To that end, on Tuesday the government announced the formation of a Land Use Management Central Committee.
The new committee will oversea and regulate respective departments in handling land-related matters in all stages of administration, from regional to village-level decisions, according to NGO Global Witness. (Courtesy of telesurtv.net)
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