Kaladan News
Dated:
Forced Labour is
Still Continuing in Arakan
Buthidaung, September 13: Forced labour is still
continuing in
according to our correspondent.
The villagers of
forced labour at Nasaka camps (Border Security Force),
military camps, Military
Intelligent (MI), such as to
clean the camps, to fence the
camps, to build the
latrines, to carry water, to
prepare firewood, and
etc, he further said.
Besides, they had to do other works: such as to plough
paddy fields, to grow paddy in the
fields, which had
been forcibly confiscated from the
villagers by army,
MI and Nasaka near their camps.
The villagers have
also to provide forced labour for
seasonal
cultivation, another villager said
to our source.
Earlier, the Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 551,
552, 553, 556, and Military Operation Command ( MOC
)-15 of
farmlands from the villagers for
supporting their
families, he further said.
Every day, one villager from a village tract has to go
to Nasaka
office and stand by the Nasaka from
to
to villages Chairmen or villagers
.In turn, a family
has to provide one man for forced
labour in one
month.., said sources. ##
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