NGOs have drawn attention to 'land grabs' leading to dispossession of local people and loss of livelihoods (Friends of the Earth, 2007; Oxfam, 2007).
The Palestinian people, being the victims of mass expulsion and exile, understand fully what it means to be a refugee; however, there is no reason to link the Palestinian refugee problem that was caused by the creation of the state of Israel in historic Palestine in 1948 (which led to the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians) and any claims by Jews in other countries.
But the struggle unfolding at Huaxiang World Famous Garden, a gated, suburban-style community on the exurban fringe of the capital, is not like a majority of redevelopment battles that each year lead to the forced eviction and dispossession of countless families.
And it can only lead to further injustice and dispossession in the future".
Throughout the subcontinent, lands were reserved for sole African occupation by administrations fearful that total dispossession would lead to widespread African resistance.
Ms. Roy, who joined the campaign over a year ago, said the dam project would lead to "a horrible spiral of dispossession and uprootment".
So began its full-scale colonisation by mainly European settlers – something that could have happened only under colonial rule – which three decades later would lead to the establishment of Israel and the dispossession or expulsion of the majority of the Palestinian people.
An influx of European migrants made the settlement the largest between Darwin and Perth, but it also led to the swift dispossession and displacement of the town's indigenous community, who were subject to curfews and relegated to outlying camps.
Sometimes (and this was particularly true of large ecclesiastical estates in northern Italy) lands were let out on perpetual hereditary lease for low rents a procedure that, in effect, often led to the virtual dispossession of church proprietors in favour of secular tenants.
Unlawful occupation and appropriation of these two types of public land by oil palm growers led to landless peasants' dispossession of access to land.
