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Deal #5817 Version #73714

Myanmar

Created at

2017-11-21

Last update

2018-01-25

Last full update

2021-10-05

Consultation of local community

Community consultation

Limited consultation

How did the community react?

Community reaction

Mixed reaction

Comment on community reaction

Of the 29 households surveyed by Physicians for Human Rights, 23 were not satisfied with the compensation they received, and 23 were not satisfied with the relocation process.

Displacement of people

Number of people actually displaced

4 500

Comment on displacement of people

Estimated number: in phase one 68 households have been relocated, for phase two it is planned to relocate 846 households. Assuming five persons per households results in ~ 4500 affected people

Promised or received compensation

Promised compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements)

According to PHR: Offered compensation: Government supplied house in the relocation site or 2.5 Million kyat ($2500), and varying amounts of money for fruit trees and animals. People who owned farmland were given the cash equivalent of sic years of harvest