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Ma Mau Oo, 46, a farmer from Shan State, said the military took 12 acres from her family in 2005. Since then, she has sent over a dozen letters to the government requesting that the land be returned to her family. “I keep sending letters because I want the higher ranks to know what’s happening,” she said. 

© 2017 Patrick Brown for Human Rights Watch