Burmese Army collected paddy with free of charge from
Mon villages
Independent Mon News Agency
Burmese Army’s Southeast Command has been collecting
paddy from the 17 Mon villages in
Thanpyuzayat
township, Mon state for food supply
to their army
without payment ever after
sent a complaint letter to top
general recently and
although military government
announced they did not
take any paddy from the farmers in
2003.
In the first week of January, the Ye
township farmers
signed together and sent a letter
to Senior General
Than Shwe to solve the problem of the farmers as they
faced the reduce of crop production
and to help them
providing sufficient fertilizer in
order to increase
the crop production.
But “Under the Southeast Command’s No. 4 Military
Training School Commander, Col. Khin Maung Zi ordered
to our 17 villages headman in
southern Thanpyuzayat to
collect the paddy tax on January
12,” a village
headman in the area who is
collecting the money for
the paddy told IMNA.
“In the order, we only have to collect from the farmer
a basket tin (local measure of
paddy, it has about 46
pounds) per acre. But we do not
need to collect the
paddy. Instead of paddy we were
ordered to collect
money that equal to a basket rice,
800 Kyat,” he
added.
Now the village headmen in the area are busy with
collecting money and they have to
collect money that
equal to more than 20,000 basket of
paddy from the
farmers who don’t want to pay the
money.
“It is just the order from the local military
battalion. They know about how the
poverty among the
villagers. But they still collect
it. What should we
do? No body will dare to make
complaint to them,” said
Nai Khay, a farmer from Kayokpi village.
“It is likely they are intending the farmers in
collecting a basket per acre in
this year. Now they
are easily collected and get the
money. There will be
for sure for more collection in the
next year,” Nai
Maung Htein, a farmer from Sakharn village said.
The villages were ordered to pay the money for paddy
tax are: Wae-kha-dard, Sakharn,
Chork-pa-line,
Wae-kha-meat, Wae-toer,
Kalaing-pa-taw and Ywa
thar-aye, Kayokpi, Wae-klorn,
Ong-Khae, Kork-lay,
Proad, Anin, Lay-Yin-Kwin, Waen Choen, and
Waen Chae.
Such collection of money instead of paddy is not heard
in other townships of
after a serious complaint from
farmers, the SPDC and
the Burmese Army stopped buying
paddy at low price
from farmers. At the
same time, the regime also
blocked the Commerce of Enterprises
to not buy paddy
from farmers and export to the
other countries.
Therefore, the paddy price in
2000 Kyat (about 2
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