BNI:缅甸政府强迫民众参加支持和平进程的游行

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据缅甸国际新闻网BNI报道，缅甸政府下令掸邦地方当局在首府东枝及其它城市组织示威游行活动，来支持现在的和平进程。

当地政府告诉民众，4月6日他们必须去街上举着标语游行。被要求举行的城市包括掸邦南部的Linkhe,Loilem,Kunhein, 和东枝，掸邦北部的腊戍、木姐和皎梅，掸邦东部的大其力、景栋、孟萨和孟东。

东枝的Khun Hto说，参加游行有很多农民，还有病人，因为要求每个家庭必须来一个人参加，当时并没有说是要干什么，来了以后才知道。

掸邦政府的人说，活动是为了表达民众支持正在进行的全国和平进程。政府主任U Kaung San的说法和民众并不相同。他说，参加游行的民众都是自愿的，真心的，来表达支持和平，政府只是提出一个指导，并没有要求人们这么做。

Loilem镇一个50岁的男人说，Loilem镇的游行并没有发钱，人们因此还错过了午餐，他听说 Kuaukme镇给每个参加游行的人发了1500缅币。

这次示威的口号是：我们需要一个成功的和平进程；我们希望开始和平谈判；那些破坏和平进程的是人民的敌人；必须保证和平协议成功签署。

[转载]BNI:缅甸政府强迫民众参加支持和平进程的游行

东枝

BNI:缅甸政府强迫民众参加支持和平进程的游行

Loilem

BNI:缅甸政府强迫民众参加支持和平进程的游行

缅政府要求民众参加游行的通知     番外联邦编译

Authorities Force People to Demonstrate in Favour of Peace Process

S.H.A.N. has learned that the state government has ordered the authorities in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, and other district level cities to organise demonstrations in support of the peace process.

People needed to take part in demonstration marches whilst holding placards on 6 April in Linkhe, Loilem, Kunhein, and Taunggyi towns in Southern Shan State, Lashio, Muse, and Kyaukme towns in Northern Shan State, and Tachileik, Kyaington, and Mongsat-Mongton towns in Eastern Shan State said local residents who had been told to take part in the demonstrations.

Demonstration in Taunggyi

Demonstration in Taunggyi

Khun Hto from Taunggyi Town said: “Not only [people from the] 22 wards came and joined in at Taunggyi, but also [people] from village tracts. It was compulsory that one person from each household attended which is why I came. We didn’t know before we came [what we were going to be doing], we only found out when we arrived.”

A Shan State government official said that they want to show support for the signing of the final draft of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) between the government’s Union Peace-Making Work Committee (UPWC) and the ethnic Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) on 31 March.

U Kaung San Oo the director of the Shan State Government said: “These are the [true] feelings of the people. The state government only gives guidance, we did not order people to do this.”

Demonstration in Loilem3

Demonstration in Loilem

A 50-year-old man from Loilem Town said that while demonstrators in Loilem Town were not paid and missed their lunches because they were demonstrating, the people who demonstrated in Kuaukme Town were given 1,500 kyats

Local residents from Mongpon, Panlon, and Loilem gathered in the centre of Loilem Town. From there they started out on a 40-minute demonstration march from Ward 1 to Ward 4. There were about 3,000 people demonstrating in Loilem Town.

To ensure the demonstrations took place the relevant township administrators sent summons to wards and village tracts, according to residents of Namhkam Town.

Summons Letter Ordering People to Take Part in Demonstrations

Summons Letter Ordering People to Take Part in Demonstrations

The participants shouted five slogans at the demonstrations: “We want a successful peace process,” “We want peace talks to start,” Those who destroy the peace process are the people’s enemy” and “The peace agreement must be successfully signed.”

Translated by Aung Myat Soe English version written by Mark Inkey for BNI