SPDC rejects allegations of using forced labour but continues in practice
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- Date: 14 Jun 2006 21:35:06 -0700
SPDC rejects allegations of using forced labour but continues in
practice
Mi Kyae Goe, IMNA
June 12, 2006
Despite the SPDC maintaining that it does not use forced labour, they
are still doing so in regional development projects and for reasons of
security in southern Mon State both in the day and night.
According to a press release yesterday at the meeting hall in Hpa-an,
Kayin State, they said they never used forced labour. Transportation of
materials and construction of buildings are made through tender system
by paying charges.
"The SPDC uses the tender system near the town but not in rural and
border areas. The villagers and the authorities in rural areas who use
forced labour don't know about the tender system," said Nai Kasauch
Mon, Director of Human Rights Foundation of Monland.
According to Nai Kasauch Mon, the SPDC uses force labour in southern
Mon State and is building a gas pipeline from Kanpauk to Myaing Kalay.
Most young men fled to Thailand because they could not rest in summer,
said a woman from southern Ye Township.
The villages in sub Kaw-zar Twonship in southern Ye Township were
forced to work in the new road construction projects during daytime and
were also were forced to patrol at night, according to her.
The villagers also paid for the rock for building the road from Kaloh
village to Dhani Thakyar village and sub Kaw-zar Township to sub Kalein
-aung Township in Tenasserim Division. Then they carried the rocks to
the new road site at their own expense. The road is about 20 miles
long.
According to a human rights field worker, each village was forced to
construct about 5,000 feet to 8,000 feet of the road. They were forced
to construct on rotation with the Village Peace and Development Council
making the demarcation.
That road is already been completed in draft from March 5 to till now,
she added.
Residents in Kaw-zar were also forced to cut wood from the forest for
building a high school in that area last year, the resident said.
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