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1)MNDF chairman asks cease-fire groups to
demand ethnic rights at resumed NC
2)
3)Moe Nyin Collage
students find difficult in accommodation (in Burmese)”
4)Mass forced labor used to fence police camp
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MNDF chairman asks cease-fire groups to demand ethnic
rights at resumed
National Convention
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Independent Mon News Agency
Mon National Democratic Front chairman Nai Tun Thein has asked
cease-fire groups at the next National Convention (NC) to maintain their
NC standing and together demand greater ethnic rights from the Burmese
government.
"Even though the Burmese military government has their seven point
roadmap, it seems they did not plan
to really reform
"They (the cease-fire groups) need to demand as much as they can and
stand up for the federal union wanted by all ethnic nationalities. What
the cease-fire groups demanded appeared to test the Burmese military
government at the
"The cease-fire groups should not wait and rely on what the government
says and does. They should strongly demand what ethnic people really
want, a federal union," he continued.
According to Nai Tun Thein, the cease-fire groups will leave the NC if
their demand is denied again, and cease-fire groups are also prepared to
avoid government pressure.
In 2004, 13 cease-fire groups joined together and demanded that the
Burmese government give greater ethnic rights when they draft the
constitution for
government, so the groups will fight for it again at the coming resumed
NC, according to the cease-fire group leader.
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Mass forced labor used to fence police camp in Chin
State
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Khonumthung News Group
Aizawl
Many villagers are said to have been involved in forced labor fencing
Hmawng Tlang
police camp in
According to instructions of U Mya Thein, chief inspector of Thang
Tlang township, the inspector of Mawng Tlang ordered people residing in
nearby Hmawng Tlang village to set up fences around Hmawng Tlang police
camp, according to people from Thang Tlang currently in
police camp is believed to be about 1,000 square feet wide.
The villagers prepared to fend for themselves and cut wood in the
forest, carried it to and fenced the camp, work that every forced
laborer is usually used to.
Sixty villagers from Aibur village, 100 from Hmawng Tlang, 100 from
Cawng Thia, 100 from Le Tak (A)(B)(C) and 40 from Phaikhua were included
in fencing the police camp.
"Hmawng Tlang camp was not only notorious for its labor (practices) but
for engaging in liquor smuggling. Corporal Thangthai himself led in
making liquor and selling it to villagers," explained a village peace
and development council member from Phaikhua village who himself
experienced the labor.
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