Arrested owners of Cars without licenses face court
Independent Mon News Agency
During the recent military government crackdown on cars without
licenses, cars owners were arrested and taken to court by authorities
for illegal trading.
At least 40 car owners were arrested in
under the legal section of Act No. 31 for illegal car trading, Nai
Jorn reported.
“With the legal section, authorities tried to sentence the car owners
to from one and a half months to six months in prison,” said a member
of the family of an arrested car owner from Kwarn Thirt village,
Thanpyuzayart township,
The authorities are searching for cars without licenses in the
villages of southern Mon state by entering one house after another.
“Authorities from different departments joined together and came to
the village to search for cars. They even searched the entire temple,”
Nai Jorn reported from War-kha-rur village, where authorities were
searching for cars today.
They shout at the car owners, “Do not came to get your cars and do not
hope to get them back,” according to car owners and villagers.
“What authorities have said to people is that they were seizing their
cars completely, and will not give them back even though owners try to
get ithem back by bribery,” Nai
Jorn added.
The government has been seizing cars without licenses and tightening
checkpoints in
without licenses, parking them along the road in
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