Kaladan News
Dated:
Does Forced
labour Exists in Arakan?
Buthidaung, August 22: On
Peace and Development Council (TPDC) Chairman of
five villages to plant seedlings
along the roadsides,
said our correspondent.
The villagers of Quan Dine, Tharakani, Nanragon, Dabru
Chaung and
engaged in forced labour for
planting seedlings along
the roadsides. This road is
connected to Buthidaung
Town from the headquarters of Military Operation
Command 15 (MOC-15) of
further said,
The villagers have to plant 92 seedlings per family
all along the both sides of the
road at a distance of
4-feet. They have to purchase these
seedlings from the
government agriculture department
at the rate of
Kyat-100/- per seedlings. They have
also to fence the
seedlings to protect from the
cattle and to feed
chemical fertilizer in time. This
project will be
completed by the end of this month,
a farmer said to
our source.
This rainy season is very important for the farmers to
grow paddy in time. Regarding this,
farmers have to
complete the paddy growing by the
end of this month;
other wise, late paddy growing is
hampered to the next
harvest, source further added.
At that moment, the farmers have to divert their
labour forces for planting
seedlings along the
roadsides. As a result, the farmers
are absolutely
furious with SPDC authorities, but
they have no rights
to say anything, said another
farmer to our source. ##
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