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Indo-Burma border news (r)



Indo-Burma border news           Date 24th Feb 1997.
On 1st Feb 1997 Township Law and Order Restoration Council chairman of 
Leshi township, Saggaing division, Naga hill tract U Mya Han sent a 
letter to the command of (222) Burma Regiment mobile column Maj. Aung Swe 
Oo to call civilian porters for carrying ration for (1000) soldiers. 
Therefore Maj. Aung Swe Oo ordered the villagers from the following 
villages to come to Leshi town without failure.
 
Name of the village                                                       
Number of porters
1. Summra 
village                                                                        130
2.Kuki village                                                       125
3.Phontharet village                                                  85
4.Pansat village                                                     115
5.Ngachan village                                                    100
6.Kokailong village                                                  108
 
These porters have to carry ration from Leshi to the places where the 
soldiers are deployed inside Leshi township.But there is no car road 
between Leshi and Summra and on foot it takes two days journey.
The villages were informed that they would not get any wages and for food 
they have to arrange by themselves from their homes.
Villagers are busy at hill-side cultivation at the moment and due to that 
the village chiefs requested to the army to reduce the number of porters. 
But Maj. Aung Swe Oo replied that if the villagers can not fulfill the 
number of porters that they had been asked, the villagers have to supply 
the ration for (1000) soldiers. Thus they had to send their full quota of 
porters to the said place.
Due to this forced porterage the villagers from respective villages had 
to leave Summer season hill-side cultivation.
 
 
News and information unit
A.B.S.D.F. (Western 
Burma)