What We Do
Land in Our Hands (LIOH) issued the following statement honoring this Peasants’ Day as follows:
- Restating the 22nd of December as the Peasants’ Day.
- Honoring the peasants who had given, and are giving their lives for resisting the oppressions and injustices.
- Committing to fight till the end of monopolizing/grabbing the land, destroying the customary lands, and making/exploiting the unjust laws or undermining the federal democratic system.
- Condemning junta’s attempt to stage coup, its illegitimate management on the peoples’ land resources and any collaboration with it.
- Denouncing the land grabbing, detaining or killing the peasants, and destroying (torching) the peoples’ homes & properties; and committing to join the peoples’ movements towards the federal land governance.
The statement is available in both English and Myanmar languages.
LIOH requested and received the messages from its allies and partners, in regards to the Peasants’ Day:
LIOH hosted an online talk:
The online talk is available to listen the audio on the LIOH’s YouTube channel in Burmese Language – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQSx91Ae5Q
The Partners’ Activities on the Ground
A ceremony for marking the peasants’ day and local seeds conservation event was held by the indigenous communities from 4 villages of Lekasaw Township from Tanintharyi and around 200 indigenous peoples participated in this event.
