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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)