Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA)

August 1, 2003

800 servants are forced to attend military training in Mudon Township

Local military battalion in Mudon Township of Mon State provides one-month long basic military training or State Defense Force training to all government servants in Township that starts today.

The battalion adopts for the period of training for one month and most servants are put in city hall, which is currently used as military camp and trains the servants in Township football playground.

Government servants are divided into two groups and the first group with 433 servants attend the first round of training. This group also includes the both school male and female teachers.

The training is also called as State Defense Force training and servants are trained how to use guns and equip them. They also have to buy the uniform with 2950 Kyat per set.

This training aims to defense the State from the invasion of foreign (American) force and destructive elements accordingly to the propaganda of the SPDC authorities. In some Townships, the police officers are trainers while Burmese Army’s local battalion involves as trainer in Mudon Township.

Most servants except some trainees who already attended SPDC’s Political University in Rangoon (which is known as Paung-gyi University), are instructed by the authorities to attend this training without failure.