Land Confiscation reports on the KHRG site

Land confiscation is narrowly defined by KHRG as incidents in which villagers’ access to or use of land is forcibly supplanted by another actor without their consent. Land confiscation often occurs at proposed development, natural resource extraction, or private business sites, including hydro-electric dams, mining and logging projects, and plantation agriculture. Increased militarisation at these sites perpetuates a cycle of land confiscation in areas adjacent to the sites for the development of military camps, roads, or other infrastructure to support the project. This occurs in addition to the large-scale loss of cultivable land, forest, waterways and natural resources due to environmental degradation as a result of development or extractive industrial projects –without compensation for the loss or destruction of land..." There are about 100 reports on the KHRG site (July 2015) with references to land confiscation, though this may not be the main theme of all reports. Users could also enter "land confiscation" in the Search box on the home page.