Alternative solution for fuel turned into forced labour in Karen State
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- Date: 26 Mar 2006 18:52:26 -0800
Alternative solution for fuel turned into forced labour in Karen State
(Kaowao: March 26, 2006)
The State Peace and Development Council in Pha-ann Township is
implementing its physic nut (castor oil) growing project by forcing the
local populations in Karen State to grow the plant, sources said.
Sources from southern Pha-ann Township said that middle school students
were forced to grow 200 plants each, while villagers in Kanni village
track southern Kaw-ka-reik Township were extorted 700 Kyats of Burmese
currency to fulfill the project.
"Students in my village were forced to grow 200 physic nuts and the
head of teacher (middle school) is frustrated with the order," said
Miss Mi Cetanarmon, a young Mon woman who worked as teacher in the
area.
Nai Swoh, a Mon politician from Kaw-ka-reik told a Kaowao reporter by
mobile phone that about 3000 households of the village track consisting
of eight villages (mostly Mon villages) were forced to pay on orders by
the village headmen received from the local commander and township
officer.
The State Peace and Development Council is planning a nation wide
physic-growing project to produce bio-diesel fuel, which can be used in
farming equipment. In Mon State the government is planning to put into
production 500,000 acres of plant cultivation within the next 3 years
and 7 million acres nationwide.
In Three Pagodas Pass town area, the SPDC authorities are giving top
priority to the residents by giving land, which is not yet officially
recognized, if they grow physic nuts, a Kaowao reporter from the border
said. The Oslo based DVB radio reported a Burmese villager from
Pe-kone Village, of Magwe Division in central Burma was arrested on 8
March for 'criticizing' the government imposed nationwide physic
nut plantation project.
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