Burma Needs Policy for Squatters: Ye Htut

Burma Needs Policy for Squatters: Ye Htut

RANGOON — Amid ongoing mass evictions in Rangoon and surrounding areas, the presidential spokesman has called for a land policy to handle the issue of squatters.

An estimated 10 percent of Rangoon’s population are illegal tenants, according to the divisional government, but squatting is widespread across Burma. Ye Htut, the presidential spokesman and deputy minister for information, says the country lacks a clear policy to handle the issue.

“For eviction cases, the government system seems to be broken down. There is no law enforcement in some areas, even in Naypyidaw,” he told The Irrawaddy last week.

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