“Residents Group Slams Report on Thilawa Evictees”, 17 November 2014

A group representing residents displaced from the site of the Thilawa Special Economic Zone has slammed as “inadequate” a report by a Japanese investor into the status of landowners forced to make way for the project. The report by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)…has been criticized by the Thilawa Social Development Group, a local NGO, for presenting an overly optimistic portrait of the current status of residents relocated to Myaing Thar Yar Village last year…In June, three residents filed a formal complaint with JICA…over the eviction and relocation of 81 households forced to make way for the first 400-hectare phase of the Thilawa development…