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MANDALAY DIVISION – According to the local residents, around 300 houses in Yay Chan Oh ward of Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay Region including the old brick wall of the neighborhood, stone pillars, the barbed wire was destroyed by the army with a bulldozer.
On April 6th, the military together with ward administrator, came and destroyed the houses with bulldozers without giving any reason to the people. Residents of the neighborhood said that they asked the reason but did not receive any reply.
“It was in the news before that they were trying to demolish the permitted residential areas as military land, and only the brick wall was demolished. Now, Min Aung Hlaing will come on the 10th and they destroyed the houses with the excuse for security reasons. And they want to do it unjustly as military security,” a resident of the neighborhood said.
In addition, on April 6th, the house list and street name list were being collected from the ward, and when the residents of the ward asked about it, they did not answer.
There are 1,000 households in Yay Chan Oh Ward of Pyin Oo Lwin. About 30,000 people live there. The residents of the neighborhood said that they would come and demolish the homes the next day.