November 14 (NMG)

Burmese army issued an order in last week of October banning all adults from Layshee township in Naga hilly region in upper Burma, not to travel for long period, one local villager said.

Column Commander Maj. Nyi Zaw Myint from LIB (87) on 28 October instructed the head of villages in Sumra village track in Layshee township and ordered adults (age between 18 to 40 yrs) not to travel for a long period.

“The order sheets were pasted in every villages on 28 October. In the order, peoples under 40 yrs have to take permission from Village Peace and Development Council and peoples are not allow to travel for a long period. They are not allowed to travel if it will take more than a fortnight. Peoples are not allowed to travel a week or ten days,” one Naga youth told to NMG.

The reasons were not disclosed why peoples are not allow to travel more than a fortnight.

Some local residents believe that Burmese Army is planning for its recruitment and there will be some paramilitary training in their areas.

Burmese Army is recruiting new members in Layshee township and there was only two men who registered themselves voluntarily. Some reports said government is planning to conduct paramilitary training which designed to make people follow order and collect information.

Local Naga peoples told NMG that their villages had to send villagers as new recruits for the army in ration according to the number of house holds in 1995.

Peoples were not informed when this new order of banning traveling will be withdrawn.

Maj Nyi Zaw Myint also warned the villagers that wives of these defectors will be arrested if the villages could not recruit in place of defectors from army.

Network Media Group
Phone:+66 1 322 7194
E-mail:netmedia@cscoms.com