* To monitor human
rights situations in Mon territory and other areas southern part of Burma
* To protect and promote
internationally recognized human rights in Burma
human rights foundation of monland
Human Rights Report 1/96 (April 15, 1996)
P.O. Box 11, Ratchburana, Bangkok 10140,
Thailand
No
one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour.
(Article 8. 3. a, International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)
Forced Labour in Ye-Tavoy Railway Construction
Background of Ye-Tavoy Railway Construction
Since
the Burmese military regime, SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council)
came into power in 1988, it has implemented several
infrastructure projects in the whole country to attain recognition of ruling
legitimacy role in both domestic and world community. However, in any
development project which has been implemented by SLORC, it has continuously
been forcing local inhabitants to be hard labourers against their desires.
Among
several projects, the 110 miles (about 180 kilometers) long Ye-Tavoy railway
construction which connects Ye in the southern Mon
State and Tavoy of Tenasserim Division, is the one also well known for its
terrible conscription of forced labour. The construction began in September
1993 and since then the SLORC local military and other government officials
have been instructing for conscripts. On May 30th of 1995, the most southern 12
miles long Tavoy-Yebyu section was completed and the SLORC officials
also arranged an opening ceremony. But some part of embankment of that section
was destroyed by rain later and the conscripted villagers had to reconstruct in
August and September.
Since
June, the SLORC local officials and the military has continuously been forcing
the local villagers of Thayet Chaung, Tavoy, Yebyu, Ye, Mudon, Thanbyuzayat,
Chaung Zone townships, into slave-labourers for the embankment construction of Yebyu-Kalein
Aung section. (Actually, the railway route passes west of Kakin Aung, however it is named Yebyu-Kakin Aung section). Recently,
the SLORC conscripted the local inhabitants from Yebyu township
only and to be completed that section in December of 1995 as deadline, then,
SLORC local officials and military rapidly conscripted more labourers from Ye,
Thanbyuzayat, Chaung Zone townships at the beginning of December.
In
August, the SLORC has decided to shift the route between Natkyisin and Kalein
Aung and construct again in the west side of Ye-Tavoy motorway. The villager labourers from mostly from Yebyu township has
also been conscripted to construct in new selected railway route.
Forced
Labour for New Selected Railway Route
The
new selected route is estimatedly 20 miles long and it runs along the old
British telegram post way parallel to Andaman Sea coast which is currently used
for villagers as foot path. The most part of this new route is lied along lowland areas and connected with the route from
Yebyu in area called Ye Bone west of Kalein Aung village and east of Kan Bauk
village. The Engineer Team of Myanmar Railway Project based in Tavoy already
repeatedly surveyed in the area before June 1995. Then the Yebyu Township SLORC
officials has arranged and instruct for the rough
clearing the route.
In
constructing the new selected railway route, the local officials has mostly
been forcing the villagers from Kalein Aung, The Chaung,, Kan Bauk, Eindayaza,
Natkyisin and Mintha Sakan village groups into labourers since August and the
clearing process of the route was completed within three months. At the same
time, many villagers were conscripted in Kalein-Aung railway section.
Initially, in searching for the route, the local village group leaders called
for 50 labourers each from those mentioned village groups by the instruction of
township SLORC officials (Ma Wa Ta in Burmese), and then they used up to
2000 labourers for daily hard works such
as clearing foliage, cutting trees, measuring route widths and etc..
The route also passes into many hundred acres of the
rice farmlands and rubber, betel-nut and other plantations of Natkyisin, Mintha
Sakan and Eindayaza village groups. Additionally, the houses in the west side
of Eindayaza village were also ordered to move as the railway route passed
into. No compensation was contribute to owners of
those houses, farmlands and plantations.
Forced Labour In Yebyu-Kalein Aung Section
Yebyu-Kalein
Aung railway section is the longest one among all sections divided by Myanmar
Railway Project Its 40 miles long route runs from Yebyu to Ye Bone. Roughly,
the railway construction is divided into four parts such as Tavoy-Yebyu,
Yebyu-Kalein Aung, Kalein Aung-Natkyisin, Natkyisin-Ye. After the Tavoy-Yebyu
section was completed in May, the SLORC continuously arranged to construct the
Yebyu-Kalein Aung section by creating some conscripts control centres in the
Kyauk-Lone-Kyi, Ngwe Lein and Ye Bone, Chaung Zone and Kalein Aung areas along
the route of the construction, which has been started in June, 1995.
In
this construction, the majority populations of Yebyu township's local
inhabitants have been conscripted into slave-labourers since June and the most
of them came from village community. At the beginning of December, as the SLORC
was hurry to complete the section, it also conscripted the villagers as
labourers from Thanbyuzayat, Chaung Zone and Ye townships of Mon State. The
construction has been started with estimatedly 6000 villagers from Yebyu
township village groups such as Kalein Aung, Zar Dee, Ohnbingwin, Zimba, Chaung
Taung, Kan Bauk, Hpaung Taw, Eindayaza, The Chaung, Mintha Sakan, Ya Bu,
Kywe-tho-nyima, Natkyisin and all quarters on Yebyu Town, and later on it has
constantly increased hundreds of thousands of labourers in December every two
weeks including the villagers from other townships. Every family in every villages in those townships have ever worked in the
construction or paid to avoid contributing labour.
Under
the responsibility of Myanmar Railway Project, the SLORC has planned to
complete this section at the end of 1995, but according to the victims who
worked in the construction, they complained that this section could not be
completed at the end of 1995 according to the authorities' plan.
Work Duty and Appalling
Consequence in Worksites
Work
duty to the labourers has been arranged by the instruction of Township SLORC
and the military commanders nearby. They have formed Area Construction
Implementing Committee with local headmen of village groups and ordinary
villages in each worksite for reason to control conscripts rigorously. The
Township officials and military commanders has defined for all of work duty and
instructed to respective Area Construction Implementing Committee. They have
defined all populations in age range between 15 and 60 year are
the numbers of the labourer for the construction. To define such numbers, the
committees have to provide them accurate households
and population of each villages. Then, the headmen of village groups lessened
the defined labourers by reducing their close persons, disabled persons, elder
persons, security persons and government servants, and so the rest villagers
ever faced a heavy burden of defined work duty, because the defined work-duty
is remained the same and weighted against the remaining villagers. Those
committees will inform the village headmen the number of labourers they needed
according to households and populations in respective villages. The village
headmen will take responsibility to collect the labourers from their own
village and arrange for transportation on every 15 days (two weeks) rotating
shift basis. Other way of collecting labourers is the committees offered a
defined piece of work for a defined date to each village groups and the village
headmen of respective village groups will arrange by themselves to fulfil the
defined duty. In distributing pieces of work, according to escapees to the
border, each families had to dig the ground into 10
square feet by one foot deep holes, from 5 to 10 holes and carry the dirt to
build embankment, in every 15 days duration they were conscripted. Nearly all
families in Yebyu Township had to work every month for 15 days and at least two
members of their families had to go to the worksites. Over 60% of the labourers
have always been women and children under 15 as the men had to find income for
survival of families.
When
the villager labourers arrived to the defined worksite, they had to build
temporary shelters by themselves with their owned facilities. They have to
bring foods along with them to eat in the duration of working. As they are
subjected totally to slave-labours, they have to work for the whole day except
can take a rest in lunch time, forced to work under appalling conditions under
heavy rain or hot sunshine. When they were sick, they committee could provide
them very few of medicine in some worksite but no provision of medicine and
health care in some others. If the patient was very serious, they allow to transfer to hospital at Ye or Tavoy, but the patients
have to spend for transportation and medical treatment. According to the
victims who escaped from the construction, there were 50% of
total labourers got sickness in Ye Bone conscripts camp. Because of
crowded populations in the camp and shortage of pure water, as all labourers
used the same stream in the area, they were suffered with diarrhoea, malaria,
beri beri and etc.. The most women and children
getting malnutrition of shortage of foods as they could not buy any extra foods
except rice brought from home because they were too poor. On
December 14. a woman from Ya Bu
village. Mi Wood aged 27. mother
of two children, died with diarrhea in her village after she returned back from
Ye Bone worksite.
Every
labourer never received any payment from the committee. Otherwise, in villages
which could not provide the committee defined labourers, those village headmen
had to collect money in his own village and had to pay to the committee to hire
the substitute labourers. Undoubtedly, in most cases, the railway authorities
and railway authorities took money into their pockets and corruption among the
officials has been in large scale wide-spread. For every needed person for 15
days to hire, the village had to pay from 2500 Kyat up to 3500 Kyat to the
committee. According to escapees, the committee really hire
some substituted labourers in November and December of 1995 to complete the
defined work-duty of construction, but those substitute labourers were also
conscripted from the same village or from other village group. But each hired
labourer received only 300 Kyat in two weeks period from the committee.
In
the other case, in some villages the villagers could arrange to hire needed
labourers as substitute for their families. The headmen arranged by themselves
in hiring the substitute labourers and those labourers could receive 350 Kyat
for one hole of 10 square feet and one feet deep, to dig and carry the dirt to
embankment from the families who could not provide labourers.
Focus of Current Report
This
report focuses on just only the conscription of forced labour of SLORC local
troops to the local inhabitants of Yebyu and Ye
townships. The current report mentioned the interviews with men who ever worked
in the construction. To get more information, HURFOM conducted several
interviews with new arrivals in a Mon refugee camp, Payaw, and mentioned two
best interviews in this report. The most interviewees described the same
conditions of them and, this two interviews will
provide accurate and correct information of the whole conditions in railway
project.
To
protect the persons who were conducted interviewed, the report does not use the
real name of the interviewees and changed all their names. However, all events
and stories mentioned here were really happened in Burma and, please feel free
and can change the better usage of English. It is hoped that all information
must be useful in helping the international community to halt SLORC from
violating such brutal and inhumane abuses and promote internationally recognized
human rights in Burma.
Interviews
Interview
#1
Name:
Nai Ohn
Myaing
Sex/
Age:
Male/ 52 years
Nationality/
Religion: Mon/
Christian
Occupation:
Carpenter
Native
Place: Sin
Ku Village, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division.
Interview
Date: January
1, 1996.
Even
the Mon people are traditionally farmers, but some local villagers are also skillful
in professional jobs. But the professional job is sometime not a permanence to
work for the whole year for income, and additionally, those skill workers were
also conscripted to work in government infrastructure projects by local
military. Then, obviously, their lives became harder and harder for survival.
The interviewees, a carpenter, described such an examples.
Difficult
for work opportunity, because of conscription of forced labour
Q When did you arrive
here (Payaw Mon refugee camp) and
why?
I
arrived here just two days ago. I took for five days to arrive here through the
way which passes into Aleskan village. I escaped from my village because I have
no more choice to move other places and no more money for foods and for payment
to the military. I (as a carpenter) has worked mostly in several villages of Ye
township to build houses there and I sent back cash to my family. So they can
survive. In this year (1995) I could not work smoothly as a carpenter in
Ye, because we have to provide manual labour nearly for the whole year in the
railway construction. In my work to complete a house, some were big, it will take for more than two weeks. For the railway
construction, we have to work at least for two weeks in every month and I have
to take for one day to travel to Ye and I have to find jobs of building house
at least for two days. No, I could not have much
houses in my home village and villages nearby. When the village leaders took
labour continuously for the railway, you see, it was impossible to seek job in
Ye township, and then my family has been facing hardship for survival.
My
main occupation is as carpenter and I have helped my family for many years.
Since the Burmese soldiers started this railway construction, we have been in
difficulties to find income like before and at the end, we getting too poor
after we sold all our belongings. Now, I already sold my house to my younger
brother and I decided to stay here.
Burden
work duty for village community instructed by local SLORC military
Q Can you describe me
who were responsible in conscripting villagers for railway construction? Please
explain me what you knew.
Even
Sin Ku village is a small village (with about 100 households), we have to provide labourers from nearly 50 houses
every two-weeks. It was not meant 50 labourers. The numbers of labourers were
depended on the defined pieces of work as digging holes in the construction.
The military came to village only sometimes. Whenever they came, they asked for
chicken and other foods. I think when they came, they would instruct and order
to accept their orders, and when they returned back, the village leaders
explained us how many holes or trenches in the construction site for our
villagers to be dug. Then, the village leaders defined to the village families
as which family have to dig and how many holes.
The
military has not directly ordered and instructed to the villagers, but when the
group of villagers arrived in the defined construction site, they had to inform
the military officers and the railway authorities (officials of Myanmar
railway project) there. The officials instructed the village leader the
amount of holes and the site where his villagers had to work. As soon as we
arrived in the construction site, we had to work in hurry. Because
the work-duty for our village was too much. Almost the able-bodied
persons in the village had to go, to complete the work-duty of the village.
In
Burma, according to legislation and law, the land in the whole country is owned
by the public. It meant the government owns land everywhere and so far in the
several infrastructure projects, the government have
rights to confiscate any land that is situated in project sites without
compensation.
Clearing
the new sleeted railway route and abandoned the old route
Q When did you start to
work in the construction? What kinds of
work?
I
have a son about 16 years old, and recently he had worked in the construction
instead of me when I worked away from home. Actually, the work was too hard for
my son and later I had to work as my wife asked me. The villagers were
conscripted almost the whole year (1995), but I started working in the
construction since third week of August of 1995. At that time, when I was in
the village, the village headman explained to the villagers that the military
asked about 10 labourers from our village and I decided to work. We thought we
would have to work in building the embankment in somewhere. But we had to
travel to Min Tha village and when we arrived there, the military and railway
authorities explained us we had to clear foliage for the new route. In our worksite
near Le Gyi Village, there were more than 100 villagers from several villages.
Confiscation
of land by authorities for new route without compensation to the owners
In our works, not only clearing foliage, but also to cut
down the trees such as rubber which were owned by the villagers nearby. Before we arrived to
the worksite, the soldiers told us we would have to clear and cut everything
that lie on the railway route. This route was a new selected way and they
abandoned some part of the old way. In the new route, we cleared foliage about
50 feet width along the way. Before our arrivals, the engineers and the railway
authorities already put two parallel line poles with small flags along the
route and we had to clear foliage between those two poles. The parallel poles
also passed through the rubber plantations and we had to cut down rubber trees.
We did not know who own those plantations but he most owners are from Le Gyi village . I do not know for sure that the railway
authorities paid compensation to those plantation owners. I do not think so.
Since they have started the construction, they confiscated many plantations and
rice fields by forces without any compensation and so such confiscation is like
normal in our area.
Normally,
in rainy season, the surroundings of construction sites were in terrible conditions
of wet, flood, dirty water. Beside the appalling consequences in the
construction sites, the treatments of the local military were also inhumane.
Harder
and harder in work duty of construction to be completed in defined period
Q
How many times have you worked in the railway construction and can you describe
me the working conditions?
I
have worked in the construction for four times in this year since August of
1995, including the first time clearing foliage near Le Gyi. In comparison with
other worksites, my first time worksite's working conditions were the best.
When we work there, we had to work under the rain and not so hot. In some place
we have to work under shady trees or rubber plantations and the works were not
so hard just clearing foliage and cut down trees. In other times, working
conditions were too terrible, the piece of work for us were too much such as to
complete digging 10 holes of ground, sometime up to 15 holes, and had to carry
dirt to build embankment. It was hard work for me as l never worked before.
Almost my time working as carpenter leader in building houses in Ye Township
was never hard like farming or fishing. At the time the rainy season already end
and we had to work regardless of sunshine. We built the unfinished embankment
to be more larger and higher. If I was alone, I could
not finish digging and carrying dirt for 10 holes of ground and my son helped
me every times. So far beside the railway construction, we had no more jobs
when we returned and arrived home.
Appalling
conditions in the worksite
Immediately
we arrived to the worksite, we had to find the suitable place to build a small
temporary shelters where was close to the stream and shady site. We had no time
to build the proper toilet. After finishing built the shelter, we started
digging ground. Sometime we had to go to worksite from shelter about 15
minutes. Normally, along a small stream, there were over-crowded villagers from
several villages making many shelters. Surely, after we stayed for five days,
we got bad smell from that surrounding.
Q If one family was
impossible to work or someone could not work, for example he was sick, in the
worksite, what are the treatments of soldiers or railway authorities?
Normally,
for nearly two years, after the military started building Ye-Tavoy railway, if
some families or someone could not work on the defined time and work-duty, they
had to pay to military through their village headmen with reason to hire and
substitute another one. But in the most cases, the military or railway
authorities took such cash without hiring someone for replacement. In my first
time in clearing foliage in new selected route, two of our villagers could not
go to worksite and they had to pay 2000 Kyat each to the village headman and he
gave that cash to the Burmese military officer, maybe LIB NO. 409, in Min Tha village. When we arrived in worksite and
started clearing foliage for new route, I though there was no extra labourer
hired by military. Before we left to the worksite, the village headman told us
the military will hire two more villagers for substitution. Nobody came and work with us, then we had to complete the defined distance
of route by ourselves.
Maltreatment
of local SLORC troops to civilians beside providing
unpaid labour in construction
The
soldiers did not stay with us almost the time and watched us, but they came
about two or three times in a week, like to check how we had completed job they
defined. As soon as they arrived, they shouted to ensure to complete the jobs
and to work perfectly, so we had to be careful and worked hardly. If they saw
someone taking a rest when they arrived, they will beat. Yes, I was an
eye-witness of two Burmese soldiers beating an old man. The old man was about
65 years old and he was too weak to work. So we allowed him to work as he could
and he could take a rest any time he needed. One day, when he took a rest under
a big shady tree beside the embankment we built, a small force sent in advance
by a company of Burmese troops was appeared in our worksite and saw that old
man taking a rest and the soldiers were angered to him and took him to the
commander. And the commander ordered two soldiers including one sergeant to
beat the old man. The old man was beaten with rifle butts, fists and jungle
boots. He was not our villagers and the village headman of his village
approached to commander and explained his situation, and then they stopped
beating. The commander also shouted and warned to villagers that not too bring
disabled and unhealthy villagers to the worksite. In stead of bring such men,
to collect cash for those families and gave them to hire the substitutes.
Later, we knew that old man was from The Chaung village and even he was weak
because of sickness but he had nothing to pay for substitute. Then he came to
work site after he had no choice. All villagers sympathised on him and let him
did as he could.
Unproper
and lack of health care in the construction site
Q Did the railway
authorities pay any villager for the labour contribution and were they treated
by military or government clinics or hospitals when they got sickness or injuries
in the worksites?
Never. I never heard the railway authorities paid the
villagers for their manual labours. Nothing provided by them. When we came to
the worksite, we had to spend our own travelling charges. We had to bring our
own foods especially rice and tools, and brought some cash to buy palm oil,
vegetables and medicines in the worksite. Yes, it had about small shops in each
worksite run by villagers nearby, but for medicines we had to buy from the
military medic or in village such as Kalein Aung. I was lucky as never suffered
from sickness in the worksites. For a patient who was sick in the worksite, the
military never treated them and if he/she was very serious, the concerned
villagers had to send to clinics or hospitals in Tavoy or Kalein Aung. He/she
had to treat with his own charges in private clinic or even in Tavoy or Ye town
hospital you had to buy the medicines. Additionally, that patient had to pay
the military to hire the substitute to complete pieces of work defined for
him/her. So far you worked in the worksite, you had to
take care your healthy by yourself not to became sick. In every worksite, many
villagers were getting sick because of surroundings, but they tried to complete
their works as they had no payment to hire substitute.
Destruction
of local community by SLORC and population dislocation, as a result
Q How much you lost
because of this construction?
Recently,
in stead of me, my son had to work in the construction as I found income for
family survival. But my income could not cover for spending charges at home and
many kinds of tax to provide the military. Sometime, when my son could not go
to the worksite, we had to pay the military. My wife sold everything belonged
by her such as gold necklace and ring. My income could not cover for all of
charges for a long time. Last year in June, I sold my five acres of rice field
and then I had spent that cash to give to military and for family survival. In
October, I left nothing in my rice warehouse and when I worked in the
construction, I had to buy rice with high price. When I abandoned my village, I
left only one small house. I and my wife sold everything that belonged to us.
Q Will you hope to
return back again to your native village?
At
the moment it is impossible to return. If the military did not conscript for
labours and collect several kinds of tax, may be, I will return back.
Interview
#2
Name:
Nai Wee
Sex/
Age:
Male/ 57 years
Nationality/
Religion: Mon/
Buddhist
Occupation:
Farmer
Native
Place: Le
Kyi Village, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division.
Interview
Date: 12th
December, 1995
In
some village group, beside the SLORC conscription of forced labours, the railway
authorities, military men and their fellows in village group level leaders also
have collected taxation for construction. Such tax collections are not actually
used as mentioned reasons and the corruption is widespread among all levels of
SLORC men from village group headmen up to military commanders.
Q When did you arrive to
this camp and why did you flee?
1
arrived here just three days ago. I fled here because I could not pay for them
as they (railway authorities and military) asked. At least we had to pay
them 3000 Kyat every month for all kinds of taxation including porter fees,
construction fees and gas pipeline fees. I already paid them nearly 10,000 Kyat
within three months of October to December.
Charges
for substitute labourers and other kind of taxation
Q Did you worked in the
railway construction? If you worked, why did you have to pay for construction
tax?
I
do not know for sure. According to village group headman Aung San, from Min
Thar village group, for our small village with 50 households has to provide
60 labourers for the construction. And they said only 40 men from our village
can go to the construction worksite and we have to pay them for another 20
labourers hiring charges. We have to pay them 4000 Kyat for each labourers who were hired by them as they said. 1 did not
know sure whether they hired those replaced labourers or not.
We
ever had arguments with Aung San recently in October, so he increased for
defined labourers from 40 to 60. In first week of October, when the Burmese
troops from LIB No. 407 came into our village, our village headmen asked them
for the reduction of labourer numbers to 20 as all villagers are farmers and
had to work in rice fields. The military commanders angered and shout us and he
also said, "the government construction
project is more important than your works and you must go to construction
worksite and pay to hire replaced labourers". He refused to reduce the
numbers of labourers and Aung San told us our village will have to provide 60
labourers every month starting from October. They said they are hurry to
complete the Ye-Kalein Aung construction section. Our village headmen argued we
have no 60 men to go to construction worksite and accept 40 men to go. But they
disagreed and told us to pay for 20 hiring charges of labourers. We have no
choice.
Serving
high tax to the local SLORC troops including portering and gas pipeline fees
Q Beside
the railway construction tax, you mentioned you have to pay for porter fees and
for gas pipeline construction. Please explain me how did they collect such
kinds of tax?
Every
month we have to pay to LIB No. 407 for porter fees. According to them, they
have hired for one porter with 200 Kyat every day and they said the villages in
Min Thar village group have to pay for their expenses. And when the troops came
into our village, they also collect rice from villagers without any payment. We
do not know how many porters they used for their battalion. Every time they
came to our village, one company of troops used at least 10 porters with them
to carry their foods, rice and ammunitions. Col. Kyaw Min of
LIB No. LIB 407 always arrived to our village. When he arrived to the
village, the village headman needed to collect porter fees and sent to him on
the next day, may be, in Min Than village or other places where they took base.
We have to pay at least 400 Kyat every month.
I
have never been to the gas pipeline construction sites. But we have to pay them
for the prices of roofing leaves, bamboos, lumbers that used in constructing of
military barracks. I do not know which battalions collect such kind of tax. Our
village headman need to collect the defined tax as ordered by military and sent
it to military outpost of Kywe-tho-nyima. Recently, we had to pay for 500 Kyat
averagely and the range of tax is not normal. Sometime we had to pay 700 Kyat
and sometime 300 Kyat.
Tax
collection on disabled and elder persons
Q Did they collect such
many kinds of taxation from disabled and elder person families?
Yes,
they collected every houses. So the villagers hated
the headmen and nobody in the village would not like to became
village headman. But the military forcibly chose for village headmen and call
them their Ya Wa Ta (Village LORC) and they always used those men to
collect taxation and labour conscripts instead of them.
The Translation of Order
#1 (Provided by Mon Information Service)
Township
Law and Order Restoration Council
Yebyu
Township
Dated:
August 31,1995
To
Chairman
Quarter/
Village Law and Order Restoration Council
(Name
of individual) Quarter/ Village Group
Yebyu
Township
Subject:
Re-setting the numbers of hired labourers for the railway construction.
(1) So as to have the Ye-Tavoy Railway
Construction (Yebyu-Kalein Aung Section) completed most quickly, the numbers of
hired labourers to be provided by your quarter/ village tract is increased to
and re-set as (60) from 1st September.
(2) You are informed to send these hired
labourers to New Lein Worksite from 1st September 1995 according to the number
re-set now. In so doing, you must ensure that no women and minors be included
amongst these hired labourers and that only men of full age be selected. You
the Village Law and Order Restoration Council (VLORC) must stay with your
respective labourers and oversee the worksite yourselves in rotation, and must
ensure especially that you can send the full hired labourers as in the re-set
number.
(Signed-)
On
behalf of Chairman
(U Myint Soe)
Secretary,
Copies
to:
-
District Law and Order Restoration Council, Tavoy District, Tavoy
-
Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 410, Kalein Aung Village, Yebyu Township
-
In charge of Labour Camp, LIB No. 410 Frontline Outpost, Nwe Lein Camp, Yebyu
Township
-
Office Copy
The Translation of Order
#2 (Provided by Mon Information Service)
Township
Law and Order Restoration Council
Yebyu
Township
Dated:
June 22, 1995
To
Chairman
Village
Group Law and Order Restoration Council
(VLORC)
Ohnbingwin/ Zar Dee/ Hpaung Taw/ Ya Bu/ Zimba Yebyu Township
Subject: To contribute
volunteer labourers for the railway construction
(1) As it is in need of more volunteer
labourers at Nwe Lein Worksite of the Ye-Tavoy Railway Construction, Zar Dee,
Hpaung Taw and Ohnbingwin village groups, which have taken a rest from working
on the construction of the army buildings at Heinze island, are informed to
contribute (blurred spot) labourers each to work for the railway construction
at Nwe Lein Worksite from June 1995.
(2) Ya Bu and
Zimba village groups, which have been taken a rest from working on the
construction
are herein informed to contribute 30 labourers and 15 labourers respectively to
work on the railway construction again from 25 June 1995.
(3) It is informed that the necessary
shelters for these railway construction labourers to stay are to be built with
own arrangements and at own expense of the respective villages; that the
labourers from each village are to be sent to the worksite by one of the
members of the VLORC themselves; and that the worksite is to be supervised and
overseen by the respective VLORC in rotation.
(Signed-)
On
behalf of Chairman
(U Myint Soe)
Secretary/
Copies
to:
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District Law and Order Restoration Council, Tavoy
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In Charge, Area Construction Implementing Committee, Kan Bauk and Kalein Aung
Areas, Yebyu Township
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Office Copy