YANGON DIVISION – According to the locals, in Myaung Tagar village, Hmawbi township, Yangon division, the junta council appointed ward administrative team extorted 10,000 mmk per a youth under the reason saying that they (the youths who gave money to the administrative team) will be exempted from the conscription act.
It has been reported that starting from April 29, ten household chiefs and hundred household chiefs forcibly collected 10,000 mmk per a house under the excuse of exemption from the conscription act, in Myaung Tagar village, Hmawbi township.
There are thousands of households in Myaung Tagar village and the junta council servants are mainly extorting money from the houses where there are youths who are in their age for conscription. And they (the junta council servants) also extorted money to the houses where there are no youths under the excuse to provide the houses which are chosen to conscript.
A local mentioned that “what the administrative team said is they have already looked for the people who will be conscripted. We don’t know whether they are colluded in extorting money or not. If the houses which have youths in the age to be conscripted and did not contribute, will not be exempted. For the people who contributed money, will currently be exempted. If there is one youth in the house, 10,000 mmk have to be given and if there are two youths, 20,000 mmk have to be given. They (the junta council servants) collected money at the rate of 10,000 mmk per person.”
Hmawbi People Defense Force (PDF) issued a statement on May 1. The lists of names of the ten household chiefs and hundred household chiefs were included in the statement and Hmawbi PDF also stated that they will take serious actions to those junta council servants.
It was known that it is not just a warning and Hmawbi PDF will actually take actions to those township administrative officers, ward administrative officers, hundred household chiefs, ten household chiefs and their cohorts who are serving under the junta council to recruit new troops.
Hmawbi PDF also appealed to the public not to stay closely to those people whose names are in the list and to help the PDF comrade in case the shootings break out.