YANGON – A group of displaced squatters in Yangon’s Hlegu Township have opened a fraud case against a 27-member Aung Yadana village development committee that sold them land already owned by the government, one complainant told The Irrawaddy on Monday. Police deputy Maj Maung Maung Oo of Hlegu police station confirmed that the case was […]
Displaced Squatters Allege Fraud by Village Committee
June 21, 2017 by thiha
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Alliance Stars Group of Companies, Aung Thu Kha, Aung Yadana, Aung Yadana village development committee, Eco Green City, Gant Gaw Kyun, Hlegu, Kyauk Aing, landlord squatters, local advocate for the homeless, MInistry of Construction, Police deputy Maj Maung Maung Oo of Hlegu police station, Sa Khum Gyi, Sein Lan, squatters, The department of Yangon Division’s director general U Yu Khaing, The head of the committee, U Pyone Cho, U San Tun, Yadana Aung, Yangon, Yangon-Naypyidaw highway, Yangon’s Hlegu Township, Ye Baw in Hlegu Township’s Tar Son village
Nowhere to Go For Yangon Squatters Driven Out for New ‘Eco Green City’
June 17, 2017 by thiha
RANGOON – A mother of two small children, Daw Tin Mar Win gazed on as a group of men demolished her bamboo thatched house with chainsaws, and cut down the mango trees that had surrounded it. On Monday, nearly 400 tenants saw their shelters destroyed by authorities who deemed them “landlord squatters”—local property owners who unlawfully—and often […]
Filed Under: Latest News, Property Report Tagged With: Alliance Stars Group of Companies, Aung Thu Kha, Aung Yadana, Daw Khine Su Yin, Daw Tin Mar Win, Department of Human Settlement, Eco Green City Project, Gant Gaw Kyun, Housing Development, Kyauk Aing Village of Hlegu Township, Minister U Myint Swe, National League for Democracy, NLD, Police Brig Gen Mya, Rangoon, Sein Lan, Thailand, The Irrawaddy, to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, U Myint Mo Swe, U Pyone Cho, U Yu Khine, Yadana Aung, Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein, Yangon Naypyitaw Highway
