In Thayet Chaung Township, Tanintharyi Region, the military junta column burned down more than 70 houses and looted people’s belongings from all the houses, a 16-year-old soldier who was captured and he told the PDF Battalion.
Zin Ko Ko, a 16-year-old soldier who was forcibly captured by the military junta, was forced to join the military junta column that entered the villages of Oketu, Saw Hpyar, and Moe Shwe Kone from Oketu Village. He said that he could not accept the evil actions of the military junta, which burned down the houses of the people and stole gold and silver, so he fled to the 2nd Battalion in Dawei District.
The military junta column burned down more than 70 houses in the villages, broke into all the houses and stole public property, and searched the PDF troops.
“They spent 4 nights in the monastery. The reason for this takes too long because they had not received orders from above. They burnt the entire village because they had received orders from above. The orders from above make them to burn everything. Their subordinates did not burn everything. Even then, many houses were burned. They burned about 70 or 80 houses, which were made of stone, and some were made of wood and planks,”
soldier Zin Ko Ko said. “They also entered people’s villages, took people’s belongings, they took a lot of things. They took all the rice, oil, salt, clothes, shoes. If they found food, they took everything.If they found a house, they took everything. They took everything if there was any belongings.
The battalion commander burned the house that was said to be burned, but they did not burn the house that was said to be burned, only when they reached the monastery did they set up camp and searched, they searched for PDFs, but they did not find any,” the soldier said.
The soldier who was informed said that there were also arbitrary actions within the military junta, drug abuse, and torture of new soldiers and militiamen.
“The reason they ran away was because they were overbearing.They have the biggest power under the battalion commander ,so the sergeants would bully us. After using drugs, they would slap us. When they got drunk, they would act like they were drunk. That’s why I couldn’t take it, so I ran away. I had been planning to run away since I left the army. I had saved money,”
soldier Zin Ko Ko continued. The Dawei District No. 2 Battalion has informed that young people who have been forcibly recruited and subjected to various forms of torture can defect to the revolutionary forces anywhere, anytime, and is guaranteed to have their lives and safety guaranteed.
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