Pegu’s Residents Under Forced
Labour for Patrolling
Nai
Chan Mon, Independent Mon News Agency
Town residents in Pegu
town, situates in eastern of
“(The
He claimed he has to hire a person for 500
Kyat per round for a substitute in the patrol service in stead of his family if
they could not go and work for the patrolling when the rotation reached to
them.
“We had paid 50 Kyat to Township Peace and
Development Council officer every month as security fee,” another woman
resident added.
At least three to five people per day from
our town quarter have to patrol in a small road entering to main town. They
have to stay in a small hut that build beside the
road.
Township Peace and Development Council is
taking responsibility for patrolling and forced the local residents for more
than one year. If the capital
“If a bomb exploded in the capital (
After the last explosion in
“During the checking process, if a family
member of you were not at home, you were interrogated where you son or daughter
went. What were their purposes for traveling ……. You
would be interrogated seriously”, added the leader.
Although the authorities put tight security
in Pegu after every time bomb explosion happened in
the capital, but no culprit was arrested in Pegu said
the leader.
After May 17 bomb blast in
Although International Labour Organization
(ILO) is instructing and assisting the regime, SPDC, to eradicate the use of
forced labour, but