September 1, 2004: "International Labor Organization (ILO) should try to have more access to rural area in southern Mon state, Burma and it should not conduct its activities only in cities/towns, in order to know forced labor situation, the village headmen from southern part of Ye Township demanded. ?Even ILO monitoring the situation of force labor in Burma and the government issued Order 1/99, the use forced labor by the Burmese government is not really stopping in our area,” a village headman from a village near Khaw-za village, who was in anonymity situation told IMNA. ?There are a lot of Order 1/99 paper sheets put on the wall in the Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC) office in the villages in both Burmese and English. Although currently the Burmese Army under the command of Military Operation Management Command (MOMC) No.19 have forced villagers all the time to work in the road construction, pieces of works in army camp and as porters, the villagers never received any payment,” he added..."