Escape
from arrest as porters while village is under flood
Independent
Mon News Agency
The villagers in a village
in Southern Ye Township are escaping from the soldiers’ arrest for the
conscription of porters while their village is under flood according to the
villagers.
“The villager are hiding and
escaping. The soldiers are trying to arrest the men to use them as porters in
the military operations against the Mon splinter groups. Many times, the men
are loud their voice “Karoute” Karoute
(in Mon language) in Hangan to escape from the arrest
even while the village is under water of three feet in depth,” said a monk come
from the Hangan village.
“Because of the splinter
group led by Nai San Shay is moving around the
villages in the recent days and in order to attack the group, the Burmese Army
under the command of Colonel Nyi Nyi
tried to arrest the villagers for porters”, added the monk.
According to the villagers,
the flood has increased since July 31 and the people have to travel by boat
from one place to another.
In southern Ye Township some
villagers are used as porters on a rotation by the soldiers, according to the
villager from the area who fled into
“Every week the Burmese
Army’s soldiers used 15 villagers as porters in Magyi
village and villages nearby,” said
“Many villagers were beaten,
fed with insufficient food and they had to carry heavy ammunitions,”
The Burmese Army has not
stopped its military operation against the Mon splinter group and they still
restrict the villagers to not go to workplaces in the farm and plantations,
which the villagers are relying as main livelihood for survival, according to
the villagers come from there and Hangan villagers.
Because of the military
operation, human rights violations are continuously committed and the villager
are becoming jobless as they cannot go to work freely, according to Mr. Nai Win, a community leader from the area.
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