5
millions Kyat per month payment for gas-pipeline security fee
Independent Mon News Agency
Villagers in southern
pay about 5 millions Kyat per month for Kanbauk-Myaingkalay
gas-pipeline
security fee to soldiers and they also forced to fence the gas pipeline
for security reason, according to Villages Peace and Development Council
(VPDC) in the area.
Military officers from Burmese Army’s Infantry Battalion No.62 based in
Thanpyuzayat collected each houses 2000 Kyat per
month from 7 villages
in the area, according to VPDC.
Villagers are also forced to fill ground along the gas pipeline route,
where the pipes are overt on the ground additionally fencing gas
pipeline where the gas pipe cross on the stream.
These villages are situated in southern of Thanbyuzayat
and are far from
the town. The villages which suffer from payment and forced labour
are:
Wae-kha-dard, Sakharn, Chork-pa-line, Wae-kha-meat,
Wae-toer,
Kalaing-pa-taw and Ywa-thar-aye.
According to IMNA learned the Township SPDC authorities and the Burmese
Army not only forced these villagers but also forced the villagers in
other townships to pay for gas pipeline security service.
The government also forced villages to clean the bushes alongside of the
gas pipeline route and also ordered the owners of orchid plantation
close to the route to clear the bushes in their plantations.
The villagers were regularly forced to work and no payment
were paid to
them for their contribution and even food costs during they were working
there.
According to villagers along the gas pipeline, they said some villagers
were also beaten by the soldiers who take gas pipeline security. Some
villagers who across the pipeline route in the evening time were also
accused as rebels and they were inhumanely torture. Local farmers and
plantations near the gas-pipeline normally return to their homes in
evening time after they completed their works.
Kanbauk-Myaingkalay gas pipeline was built in 2000 by
relocating some
Mon villagers in
plantations. The farmers who lost their lands and properties did not
receive any compensation cost from the regime.
This 150 miles long (in approximation) gas pipeline brings gas from
Yatana gas field via Kanbauk
gas station in Tenasserim Division and
supply energy to a cement factory locates in Myaingkalay
village of
Pa-an Township, Karen State. The SPDC beefs up tight security force
along the gas pipeline.
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