Army ordered to the villages PDC to seize farm 800 acres for army

Independent Mon News Agency

June 4, 2004

Burmese Army bases in Mon State ordered to Village Peace and Development Council to confiscated 800 acres farmland for army after they held a meeting with village PDC chairpersons in Thanbyuzayat Town, the villages PDC members said.

“The Infantry Battalion No.31’s Army Officer ordered to confiscate farmlands for four battalions that base in Thanbyuzayat,” said Hnee Padaw village PDC members and Kwanhlar villge PDC members.

“Soon, the army will measure these farmlands in southern Mudon Township and Thanbyuzayat Township where are under their control. But they do not say yet in which place they will confiscate,” said the village PDC members when they announced about it to the villager.

Since yesterday the villages PDC in southern Mudon Township and Thanbyuzayat

Township announced the orders from the army to the villagers concerned.

In the order “the army will confiscate the farmlands where the land owners do not cultivate and, farmlands that are not registered.

Burmese Army bases in Thanbyuzayat Town, Infantry Battalion No.31 gathered the township PDC chairpersons in its base on June 2 and discussed about the farms for army. The army officers told them that the army do not have to fight to ethnic rebel because KNU agrees to stop fighting. When there is no fighting there is no job for the soldiers and that would be the main reason they need the lands, according to the village PDC attended the meeting said.

Last year, Burmese Arteillery Regiment No.318 confiscated farmland about 300 acres in Yaung Daung village in Southern Mudon township.

There are four Burmese army battalions base in Thanbyuzayat Town – they are: No.4 Southeast Command’s central military training battalion, Infantry Battalion No.62, Artillery Regiment No.315 and Infantry Battalion No.31.

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