In September 2014, Tun Tun Oo, a Burmese land rights activist, was arrested for a seemingly benign deed: He was trying to regrow 90,000 trees in Dedaye, a coastal town in Myanmar. Specifically, Tun Tun Oo wanted to plant mangrove trees, relatively short arboreal structures with tenacious roots that grow in intertidal regions. Why would someone be arrested for what, on the surface, seems to be an act of environmentalism?
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