"From information received we learn that 6 paddy purchasing centers have been set up in Koonchan township, Rangoon division for the purchase of the 1999-2000 paddy crop by the Department of Trade and Agriculture. Voluntary labour for performing tasks at the centers was demanded from 11 villages...We ask that those responsible for the reprehensible acts of taking money from the cultivators on false pretexts, unjustly demanding fulfillment of contracts, assaulting and illegally holding in custody innocent cultivators, be dealt with. according to law. We condemn such despicable and browbeating activities..."