MyoTaw: Youths Arrested in Pyinmana Township Under Conscription Rotation Scheme, Resold to Military

In Naypyitaw's Pyinmana Township, young people are being arrested under the pretext of military conscription and resold to the military.

July 13

According to local residents, the village administrator of Sinthay village, Sinthay village tract, Pyinmana Township, Naypyitaw, is collaborating with border police to arrest young people in the village under the pretext of military conscription and selling them for money.

It is reported that Sinthay village tract administrator Soe Thit Aung and military supporter informant Moe Win are collaborating with the township police force under the junta and border police officers Ko Ko Oo and Kyaw Kyaw Lat to arbitrarily arrest young people in the village and sell them to the military.

"The administrator and Moe Win arrest young people in the village they have a grudge against, using the excuse of military conscription. Then they sell them to the police and the military. I heard they get between 50 and 60 lakh kyats per person. Those who complain about this treatment are also put in detention and beaten," a local resident told MyoTaw.

Around 11:30 PM on June 29, Soe Thit Aung and his team brought police officers under the junta to the home of Maung Phoe Chit, son of U Kyaw Lwin, who lives north of the monastery in Sinthay village, climbed onto the house, aimed guns at him, arrested him, and took him away.

Although the village head monks went to plead for the release of the unlawfully arrested Maung Phoe Chit on the evening of June 30, it is said that military supporter Moe Win even verbally abused the monks.

Due to these incidents, local young people from Sinthay village, Sinthay village tract, Pyinmana Township, are reportedly fleeing and hiding, no longer daring to stay in the village.

Earlier, around 4 AM on May 11, in Tabinshwehti ward, Pobbathiri Township, 30-year-old Maung Zin Ko Naing, who was renting a house, was forcibly arrested at his home by troops under the junta and taken to the Ywathit interrogation center.

MyoTaw News Channel