Although local residents have demanded the authorities to compensate confiscated lands for the Thilawa port project, Myanmar Port Authority said they will only compensate for the crops but not the land.
"During our last meeting with officials
from Myanmar Port Authority, they told us that they will give worthy
compensation for the crops. They will have to submit to the authorities
for compensate for the lands. As for me, I don't want to give away my 47
acres of farmlands for only crop compensation," said Tin Ohne, a farmer
from Shwepyitharyar ward, Baypauk village in Thilawa area.
"It's impossible to make us move away by
only paying compensation for the crops. We need to get appropriate
compensation in order to invest for our future," said a local villager
from Ayemyathida ward in Thilawa area.
"We told the farmers the extent of how
much we can pay as compensation. Besides, these lands have been bought
by the Human Settlement and Housing Development," said an official from
Myanmar Port Authority.
Myanmar government started planning the
Thilawa Special Economic Zone by dividing the port construction area in
Thilawa Special Economic Zone into 37 land plots, each of which are 200
metres wide on the river front and 750 metres long inward the land.
These lands have been permitted for the construction of the economic
zone in 2000 in accord with 1953 Land Nationalization Act.
Myanmar Ports Authority has received
US$204 million as official development assistance (ODA) from Japan for
the construction of Thilawa economic zone.
source: Eleven Myanmar
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