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* Local resident: car
clampdown is a show of force
* Arrested Owners of
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Local resident: car
clampdown is a show of force
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Shan Herald Agency for News
The country-wide crackdown on unlicensed automobiles that began last
Saturday, Oct. 30, has been put down by a respected local resident as
psychological warfare by the new administration, under Lt-Gen Soe Win,
to wipe out any vestigial influence left by ousted Gen. Khin Nyunt and
his discredited Military Intelligence on people across the border,
King Cobra and Tai Touch reported.
"It's simply to show us people who's boss," commented a long-time
resident of Mongton township, Monghsat district, opposite Chiang Mai,
authorities Nov. 2 were returned Nov. 3.
Local residents reportedly paid 50,000 kyat (US$50) each to redeem
their Japanese-made cars imported
via
from the military, especially the MI. They were also warned against
traveling beyond Tachilek in the east and Taunggyi in the west.
In Tachilek, where authorities during a three-day campaign Oct. 31-
Nov. 2 grabbed more than 500 cars, people were notified to report on
remaining vehicles still at large.
"No hint whatever was given whether we would be allowed to keep our
cars if and after we make our reports," said a local militia
member, "so I'm still in a quandary what to do about it."
"Maybe reports from the BBC, DVB, RFA and VOA can give us a clue of
the course we should follow," he said hopefully.
The ongoing crackdown on unlicensed automobiles throughout
received wide coverage by exiled media groups.
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Arrested Owners of
Cars without licenses face court
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Independent Mon News Agency
During the recent military government crackdown on cars without
licenses, cars owners were arrested and taken to court by authorities
for illegal trading.
At least 40 car owners were arrested in
under the legal section of Act No. 31 for illegal car trading, Nai
Jorn reported.
“With the legal section, authorities tried to sentence the car owners
to from one and a half months to six months in prison,” said a member
of the family of an arrested car owner from Kwarn Thirt village,
Thanpyuzayart township,
The authorities are searching for cars without licenses in the
villages of southern Mon state by entering one house after another.
“Authorities from different departments joined together and came to
the village to search for cars. They even searched the entire temple,”
Nai Jorn reported from War-kha-rur village, where authorities were
searching for cars today.
They shout at the car owners, “Do not came to get your cars and do not
hope to get them back,” according to car owners and villagers.
“What authorities have said to people is that they were seizing their
cars completely, and will not give them back even though owners try to
get ithem back by bribery,” Nai Jorn added.
The government has been seizing cars without licenses and tightening
checkpoints in
without licenses, parking them
along the road in
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Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
has headed to
attend a business summit between
Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
Soe Win, along with his 55-member Burmese delegation, will attend the
summit to be held in
official news agency, Xinhua.
The trip to
made a state visit to
Soe Win, in his 50s, publicly said
in the past that
need to care about the
for
Critics view Soe Win's appointment as prime minister in place of Khin
Nyunt as a further setback to hopes
for democracy in
is thought to be more hard-line than Khin Nyunt, who at least had
discussions with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains
under house arrest.
The visit to
for the Burmese junta. Currently
sanctioned by the
the European Union,
countries. The next likely international visits will be to otherAsean
countries.
Soe Win, a Than Shwe loyalist, was reported to have masterminded the
Debayin massacre on
Commander.
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