"The Myanma-Asia Company with the cooperation of the military and the regional authorities have started a cooking sugar-cane plantation in the village tracts of Wa-sone and Kan-gyi-gone village groups in Hte-Kan-Taik region, Prome township, Pegu Division. 2. Lands that cannot be cultivated and lands that have been cultivated are ruthlessly cut down and cleared, then ploughed with machines leaving no grazing ground for the cattle. This has left the villagers with no land for cultivation and the lands where they had grown some crops were forcefully cleared and ploughed. Survival has become extremely difficult. Even animals are starving. A very pathetic state of affairs..."