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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)