Landowners of hundreds of acres from the Maina Village plan to take action against the company for trying to take their land by force.

There was an announcement from Waingmaw Township Administration Office in November, 2010, giving notice that residents can submit objection letters to the office before December, 2010, on the proposal of the Yazar Company to develop the factory at Kyuntaw (Teak Forestd), at Maina.

The areas are surrounded by land owned by the Jade Land Company, the Aung Swe Kaba Company and a paddy field.

Land confiscation has occurred often in Kachin State, initiated by the companies owned by cronies of Burmese military generals.

One of the most significant incidents took place in the Hukawng Valley, Danai Township, in Western Kachin State.

Yuzana Company, owned by U Htay Myint, who is close with top Burmese military leaders, forcibly seized over 400,000 acres of land from local farmers to construct sugar cane and cassava plantations in 2006.

The company refused to pay compensation and burned some houses and farms of those who refused to move.

Hundred of farmers have sued the Yuzana Company and Chairman U Htay Myint at the state court. However, the complaint was rejected by the judge.

The company destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest and farmland in the valley, leaving thousands of local people without livelihoods.

The Burmese regime forced hundreds of villagers to move out of their homes at the Myitsone dam construction site, about 27 miles away from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.

The construction of the Myitsone hydro power project, on the Irrawaddy River, or Mali Hka, in Kachin State, was started in 2007 by the China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) and Asia World Company.

Environmentalists have warned the dam construction will cause the relocation of at least 15,000 villagers and the danger of possible flooding will threaten millions of people who are living downstream from the dam.