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Looting by newly deployed Burmese Army in southern Mon State
While the Burmese Army recruits the local
civilians to attend the military training, it also sent about 10 military
battalions to the southern part of
The reason of deploying new troops is not
known, but the soldiers are widely looting the livestock in villages that
belonged to the Mon villagers.
Troop deployment started since on July 1 and
put their bases along the motor road between Thanbyuzayat
and Ye Town in
In each village along the road, the Burmese
Army deploys 50 to 200 soldiers and they separate in the villages. Then the
soldiers involved in killing and looting of the villagers’ livestock such as
pig, cattle, chicken and ducks, according to the villagers.
“The soldiers do not ask from the villagers,
but they just shot and took the livestock what they like. When
we complain to the high rank commander, but they do not take any punishment to
their soldiers. We are unhappy and dissatisfy”, said by villagers.
On July 4 night,
one low-rank commander of Burmese Army, Sergeant Hla Win from Light Infantry
Battalion No. 355 (which is originally base in
The villagers in the area are also ordered
by the soldiers to not sleep at their farms at night but are permitted to stay
and travel between
After crackdown the National League for
Democracy (NLD) members and leaders in Sagaing Division, which is known as ‘Depaeyin massacre’, SPDC has planned to create anti-strike
as they think there would be possible demonstration. The Burmese Army also
equips 25 guns in each village and formed ‘anti-strike force’.
SPDC local authorities recently forced the
Buddhist monks to sign for the promise that they will not involve in politics.
They went to every monastery in
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