SPDC forced local people to dig a channel

On May 25, 2001, local SPDC authorities forced 40 villagers from Kyoaw Thalin, Ye Phu township, Tavoy district, to dig a channel beside the Ye-Tavoy motor road across the Ma Laow mountain.

Ma Laow mountain is the border of Mon State and Taninthayi division, where many prisoner were killed by mudslide fall from mountain when they were constructing The Ye-Tavoy railway in 1997.

This using forced labor was led by the chairman of Alae Sa Khan village, Oo Pha Doad, who is the headman of for villages.



That was the second time SPDC used local people without paying and the first time was on May 25, 2001 in digging channel.

When the SPDC forced them, the villagers had to stop their usual jobs and they had to go to work site, where SPDC forced, with their own money and food. They also had to take their own tools for digging said a villager from this village.


Independent Mon News Agency

June 21, 2001