"1. On the site where the road from Meiktila leads to Kyaukpadaung is a billboard with the words -"Mandalay Division, Meiktila Township, Thaphanchaung-Yeway Development Road ( 31 miles 1 furlong and 18 feet wide). Kyats sixty two lakhs (6.2 million) of cost donated by Brigadier General Kyi Win, Director of Armour and Artillery Corps, and 71st Armour Battalion No: 1,4,5 and 8. Constructed by warrant officers, sergeants, corporals, soldiers and civilians. " 2. According to the information that has come to us the true story is that commencing from the month of September 1996 residents from about one hundred villagers that lie to the east and west of the said road were forced to dig up rocks and stones from wherever they could be found and convey them to the road construction site. No military personnel participated, no implements were supplied, and no payment was made. The villagers laboured like animals with their own hands, their own crowbars, and their own knives..."