"Among the villagers in Ye Township, who escaped from the SPDC?s forcible recruitment for basic training school, some robe as Buddhist monks and some fled into New Mon State Party controlled area. On July 2, the local Burmese Army?s LIB No. 343 bases in the northern part of Ye Township, Mon State, forcibly recruited about 500 villagers from 4 Mon villages to attend the basic military training schools in their base. Because of this order, some Mon men went into their villages? Buddhist Monasteries and robed as monks in there, while many other villagers escaped into the control areas (or liberated areas) of the New Mon State Party as they denied to attend the training..."