AL JAZEERA
3rd April 2019by Jacob Goldberg
The Myanmar government has tightened a law on so-called 'vacant, fallow and virgin' land, and farmers are at risk.
The law puts farmers at risk, mostly in territories that are home to ethnic minorities [File: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Photo]
Yangon, Myanmar - Han Win Naung is besieged on his own land.
Last September, local administrators in Myanmar's southern Tanintharyi region put up a sign at the edge of his 5.7-hectare farm that read "Under Management Ownership - Do Not Trespass".