Insight - Suu Kyi tackles military land grabs in test of new Myanmar government

Farmers fishing inside Orchard farm at Ma-ubin township at the Ayeyarwady Delta in Myanmar April 6, 2016. REUTERS/Aubrey Belford

HTA NI, Myanmar (Reuters) - By the standards of her village in Myanmar's swampy Ayeyarwady Delta, Than Shin was a prosperous woman. She had 20 acres of farmland on which her family grew rice.

But her fortunes changed in 2000 when the military government informed her it was taking possession of her land. Over the next year, Than Shin watched as the fields that for decades had provided her family with a living were cleared to make way for fish farms.