Court verdicts show Suu Kyi's uphill battle on Myanmar land disputes

By Wa Lone and Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) - Before entering the courthouse in the capital of eastern Myanmar's Shan State, Maw Maw Oo said it was ominous that several blue police vans were already waiting in the parking lot. Hours later she was jailed for a month for trespassing on what she had insisted was her own land, in a case that starkly illuminates the challenge facing Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) took power almost nine months ago pledging to solve the country's land disputes. Maw Maw Oo, 45, is a leader among the farmers from Ye Bu village, where Myanmar's powerful military had sued 96 residents for trespassing after they continued to work land they say was taken from them by the army.

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