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TANINTHARYI DIVISION – According to the local news sources, the junta council expropriated rice from the rice shops in the Kyaukkar Village Tract, Palaw Township, Tanintharyi Division and only allowed the members of administration to sell with quota.
It was known that starting from the second week of October, the members of administration expropriated rice from the rice shops in Kyaukkar Village and Thagyetkan Village of Kyaukkar Village Tract and rice is sold only at their houses.
The members of junta administration reportedly sell rice with quota, selling only three pyis (one pyi=half gallon) for a family per day and also at a much higher price. One pyi of Paw San Hmwe rice which costs only around 4000 MMK in Pala Town which is only eight miles away by road and water from Kyaukkar Village, is being sold for 5500 mmk in Kyaukkar Village, said the locals.
The locals in the region mainly work in the fishing industry. As the junta council sells rice with quota, the families which have to go to the sea to fish for long days have been facing difficulties.
A local mentioned that when going to the sea, depending on the number of people, they have to carry at least five rice bags, each of which includes 24 pyi of rice. “When they (the junta council servants) only allow us to buy three pyi of rice, what can we do. It’s like they are making us starve to death.”
Kyaukkar Village, Yarzakyo Village (locally called Ma Chan Aye Kan Village), Thagyetkan Village makes up Kyaukkar Village Tract. The transportation to those villages is difficult as those villages are island villages.
As Palaw Township is a place where the battles between the revolutionary forces and the fascist junta council troops broke out the most, the junta council is trying to cut off the food supplies to those villages in various ways.