Buthidaung, December 08:
A 16 kilometers long road from Da Byu
Chaung to Palay Daung is being under constructed in
The road is being constructed from Da Byu Chaung Military Operation
Command (MOC)-15 to Palay Daung
Battalion No.535 through the Krama Taung,
Some soldiers from Krama Taung
Battalion and Palay Daung
Battalion No.535 have also participated in road construction. This road is 18
feet wide and was previously constructed with forced labor later on it was
destroyed by rain, said a villager who was once participated in forced labor.
Qyuan Daung village Tract
of Buthidaung Township has to pay 20 labours daily to the Battalion No.565 for their construction
works. Another Palay Daung
village Tract of Buthidaung Township has also to pay
forced labors for construction works of Battalion No. 535. The laborers have to
cut bamboos and pillars from the deep forest and have to carry it to the army
Battalion, he further added.
For the Military Operation Command (MOC)-15 of Buthidaung
Township, the nearby villages have to pay labors daily, but they have been paid
Kyat 500/- per head daily while outside labor is Kyat 1,000 per day, said
another man to our source.
But the SPDC authorities have declared, “There is no forced labor across the
country.” ##
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