In Myanmar, profit clouds army pledge to return seized land

Maw Maw Oo, 45, talks to reporters during a Reuters interview outside Yebu village in Shwenyaung township, Shan state, Myanmar in this still image taken from a August 26, 2016 video. REUTERS/Wa Lone

YE BU, Myanmar (Reuters) - Maw Maw Oo discreetly pushed the "record" button on her smartphone as the state ministers from Aung San Suu Kyi's months-old civilian government started talking.

For the next hour they tried to convince her that farmers from her village in eastern Myanmar should sign away ownership claims to land the farmers say they were granted the right to cultivate in perpetuity but was later seized by the military.