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ABSDF NEWS AGENCY (r)
Press Release
March 21, 1996
Slorc Platoon defect to KNPP
A platoon led by its group leader and four privates from Slorc's
battalion (2) of
Light Infantry Battalion (72) under the command of Eastern Military
Command defected
to KNPP Battalion (2) at 6:00 am on March 15, 1996. LIB (72) is based in
Lawpita,
Loikaw Kayah State.
Platoon leader Corporal Maung Win (BC.676053) himself and
privates; Ye Win
Hteik (BC.88179), Myo Min Aung (BC.963954), Kyaw Win (BC.980955) and Win
Htay
(BC.980961) defected to the Karenni forces along with one M-79 launcher
and twelve of
its shells, four G-3 assulted rifles, 125 bullets of 7.62mm, twenty
rounds of ammunition,
two assulted mines and two land mines.
According to them, they decided to defect because of the unjust
orders by the
military officers and their mistreatement towards the soldiers. There
were many more
soldiers in the Slorc's side who wished to flee from the Slorc for the
same reasons and
were waiting for the chance, they said. They left their Dawwi Moe outpost
where they
were assigned on March 1. Before they left, they burnt down and destroyed
the outpost.
Recently, during the Naung Lon battle, between March 2 -11, five
Slorc soldiers
including one army corporal have defected to KNPP.
ABSDF News Agency
ABSDF (DAWN GWIN)
Press Release
March 22, 1996
Forced Labor in Min Kin township, Sagaing division
Local people from villages in western Min Kin township, Sagaing
Division have
been forced to work two forced labor projects at the same time and made
their daily lives
more miserable. People have left very small extra time, hardly enough to
work for their
daily needs as they have been forcibly ordered to contribute unpaid labor
both in Kyauk O-
Ye Poke Chaung embankment and Kyauk O- Min Kin motor road construction
project.
About 1,800 local people from all six villages in Kyi Nyine
village group, Kyauk O
village group, Ain Kyin Taung village group and Min Sar village group
have worked at the
two-mile-long Kyauk O- Ye Poke Chaung embankment project since May 1995.
One
person from each household was ordered to work one week in every month.
People were
grouped in which ten person each included. Each group were assigned to
dig 5 x 49 x 6 ft
embankment.
People who fail to do so have to either hire the another person
to replace which
cost 75 Kyat per day or pay 100 Kyat per day for fine. For those who
could not effort to
do either way were subject to beat or torture by the local LIB 228 for
failing to comply
the order.
Same requirement to work forced labor was imposed on the local
people at the
same time. People were ordered to work forced in 4-mile-long Kyauk O-Min
Kin motor
road. They were ordered to build 6 ft high, 15 ft wide and 4 miles long
motor road for a
week in every month. People in the region usually had to spend one week
in embankment
project and another one week in motor road project that led only two
weeks to work for
their families.
ABSDF News Agency
ABSDF (Dawn Gwin)