Tenants Association of Punjab
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The AMP movement represents around 100,000 peasants in the Punjab area of Pakistan, who work and live on Pakistan government and military owned land, managed by the Punjab Seed Corporation.
The peasants have been working he land since 1900, under the British Raj government, mostly under a crop share agreemtnt. This agreement continued to independence.
The military and the government of Pakistan imposed a cash rent on the farm land, which the peasants tried to resist.
There has been a dispute between the military who own the land and the peasants which ha lead to the military attacking, imprisoning and killing various members of AMP.
The Chairman Younis Iqbal and others were arrested in 2001. At the time of their arrest another faction was brought forward, supported by the Peoples' Rights Movement.
