Army Authorities
Reselling Seized Vehicles
Independent Mon News Agency
Vehicles without licenses imported from
“The middle level army authorities in the Military Southeast Command (MSC)
changed the color of some seized vehicles and resold these vehicles only to a
monk for a low price,” said a monk who tried to buy a car.
According to a Nai Jorn
report, the monk was allowed to own cars without licenses although ordinary
people and cease-fire group members were banned from buying them and all their
cars were seized by the army after the Burmese Military Intelligence was demolished.
But the monk could not lend his car to other people, but had to drive or sit
inside the car while the car was on the road, according to the army order.
“The army authorities tried to sell a vehicle without a license for between
700,000 and 1 million kyat to the monk. But the car had price of more than 20
million kyat before the crackdown,” the monk added.
“We knew that the car was a seized car. They changed many colors. Some they
changed to an army color. We asked them where they got the car?
They said do not ask where they get the car, they just want us to talk about
buying their car,” the monk said.
According to Nair Jorn, some parts of the seized car,
such as the tape-player, VCD player, some lights, had already been sold by the
soldiers before they took the car to the MSC..
Because of the low price, some abbot monks bought two or three cars for their
temples while people who were trying to sell their cars without licenses hid
them.
“Some abbots are very happy and asking for funds from their donors to buy a car
for their temple while people are hiding their cars in the jungle…to be free
from seizure and arrest,” Nai Jorn
said.
The Burmese army authorities have been seizing cars without licenses. Some
owners of hidden cars said that if they see
authorities entering to seize a car they will burn the car.
“Now a lot of soldiers are car running but we have difficulty getting a car
routing on the road,” Ma Htay Kyu
said.
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