Myanmar denies villagers access to ancestral lands
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Al Jazeera - Tribes near Natma Taung national park say the government is curbing their right to hunt and cultivate their land.
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"Massive land confiscations for a variety of so-called 'development projects' have increased since [Myanmar opened]," says Jennifer Franco from the Transnational Institute, who wrote a report on land rights in Myanmar.
Kramer told Al Jazeera "Local people … know very well what is at stake: their land and natural forests, pristine watersheds and teeming fisheries… Unfortunately, political and economic elites driving the current transition seem determined to ignore them."
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