The farmers demand the return of their land and issued a statement the following day saying that they would wait five days to discuss the dispute with authorities, she said.“If they don’t discuss it with us within these five days, we will speed up our protest,” Win Win Htay said.She said a local news report had cited a local official as saying the Letpadaung mine would not be stopped because it was a state project, and compensation for land had already been paid to farmers, though villagers maintain the amount offered was inadequate.“We have been fighting for a long time to get our land back,” she said.“If we accept their compensation for crops, our long fight will have been a waste, and we would not have had to protest as we are doing now.”
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