Photographing the Impact of Myanmar’s “Land Grabs”

THE WEEK IN RIGHTS | JULY 19, 2018 Photographing the Impact of Myanmar’s Land Confiscations

Photo © 2017 Patrick Brown for Human Rights Watch Today’s headlines about Myanmar focus on crimes against humanity and the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, but a story just as consequential and longer in the making has gone largely unreported. A new report describes the impact on small-scale farmers throughout the country whose land has been confiscated over the past 30 years by Myanmar’s government and military. Award-winning photographer Patrick Brown traveled with Human Rights Watch to Myanmar to document the effect of government “land grabs” on the people there. Read the Interview »

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