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MANDALAY DIVISION – The junta terrorists extorting civilians on the streets of Mandalay are now extorting the people well into the night even though they only did it in the afternoon previously, said local residents.
The junta forces are said to be mainly targeting youths going out at night, openly robbing and assaulting those on the streets frequented by young people even after 10 p.m., while disguised in plainclothes.
“Things are worst at the new wards. They would resort to physical assault. They (junta forces) are always drunk and high,” said one local resident.
Junta thugs in mufti have also started arbitrarily detaining and extorting people on the main roads of Mandalay in recent days, added the locals.
One youth said, “They have started extorting even on the 78th and 73rd Streets where there have been no such cases. We are just afraid of running into them when returning home at night. We have to pay 5,000 to 10,000 even if we had not done anything.”
In addition to extortions and physical assault, the junta terrorists are also said to be quick to trigger, shooting people dead and claiming that the victims didn’t cooperate with the inspections afterwards.
Recently on August 19 night, junta forces shot at two young men on a motorcycle in Salein Ward of Pyigyidagun Township, killing one and injuring the other. Junta lobby channels proclaimed that the young men were shot at for not stopping their motorcycle.
Junta lobbyists even went as far as to claim that the junta council has free rein to shoot dead anyone who doesn’t stop their vehicles when flagged down by junta forces.
Since the military coup in 2021, junta soldiers, police, municipal department, fire fighting department and Pyu Saw Htee militants joined forces to commit plain robbery on the streets of Mandalay.