Narinjara News
Houses built for 130
newly arriving settler families
Maung-daw, June 15: The Na-Sa-Ka border
security force of Burma has since May 29th
taken initiatives to build houses for 130 new settler families who are arriving
soon from central Burma to the Maung-daw Township
area, reports our correspondent.
The houses are being built near Aung Mingla village
under the stern directives of the Na-Sa-Ka acting commander, Lieutenant Colonel
Myint Oo.
Around 250 villagers living near the construction site have been used as forced
labourers. Most of them are farmers. Nearby villagers
said that the labourers are told they must postpone
their own agricultural business to work without any payment in house
construction for the settlers.
Under the construction scheme, these labourers will
be building houses, a monastery, a school, a dispensary, and a meditation
centre, along with digging several ponds and wells.
The new villages are being built at the vacant places from where more than 200 Rakhine villages were evacuated during the period of the
1942 Rakhine-Muslim conflict, reports say.
Local people are feeling great anxiety. According to one villager, “Among the
settlers there are many people with problems. Some are drug addicts,
ex-convicts, retired military men and floating people from central
The 260 acres of land promised to the settlers is also up for grabs under a hot
requisition process by the combined departments of land, forestry, agriculture
and police.
At present there are about 20 newly built villages for settlers locally known
as Na-Ta-La village under the Buthee-Daung, Maung-daw, and
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