Narinjara News
Burmese Army ransack Nasaka Security and Toll Gate
Ann, 28th March 03:
On March 19th about
thirty members of the Burmese Army ransacked the security and toll gate of the Nasaka Security forces at Ann Town, our correspondent
reported quoting an eyewitness.
The tollgate, No. 25, is situated on the
The hostile act was prompted by an altercation between a Sergeant Major Win Hlaing of Sa-Ah-Ya Battalion 919
and security guards from the Nasaka at the tollgate
No.25. According to the report, Win Hlaing was
riding a motorcycle and was about to cross the tollgate when the guards at the
gate challenged him. The Sa-Ah-Yah sergeant got enraged at the challenge
and returned to his quarters where he appealed to the members of his
battalion. Immediately about thirty members of Sa-Ah-Ya
returned with bricks and stones, wielding sticks. For about half an hour they
attacked with whatever missiles and sticks they could lay hands on and wounded
some family members of the Nasaka troops.
The Sa-Ah-Ya troops had been dissatisfied for long
for all the harassments they had to face from the Nasaka
guards all the time they crossed the tollgate. Besides the discrepancy in
earning ‘black money’ resulting from checks in the tollgate that has made the Nasaka personnel very rich while the Sa-Ah-Ya personnel have been forced to live on the meagre salary the military regime gave them a
simmering dissatisfaction have been running deeply between the two battalions,
commented the source. This coupled with the harassment must have instigated such action.
Only when Lieutenant Colonel Htay Lwin
from the Sa-Ah-Ya battalion rushed to the spot the
situation was brought under control. No arrests or departmental action
because of the incident has yet been reported. #