November 22, 2022
The military council has begun recruiting its supporters to guard police stations in Pwintbyu Township in Magway Region for a daily wage, locals told Than Lwin Times.
After the military coup, there are no new police personnel and the military council is no longer able to provide security. Therefore, members of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) have apparently been tasked with hiring their party members and unemployed people to guard police stations on a daily wage.
“Some daily wagers demand money from passing vehicles. Some work as night guards. It seems they are paid according to how much they get. Most of those who stand guard in police uniforms are daily wagers. Real policemen wear civilian clothes and mingle with the people,” a local resident told the Than Lwin Times.
In addition, regime troops have rounded up about 20 people from different villages in the cotton farming unit and taken them to their military camps in Minbu Township for military training, according to a local resident who lives near the cotton farming unit.
Recently, the military regime has begun using members of the Pyu Saw Htee militia in the respective areas, as its forces are no longer able to recruit new recruits for the army, and also hiring drug addicts to stand guard on behalf of them for a day’s pay, said a People’s Defense Forces (PDF) official in Minbu District.
The military council is understaffed because it must fight on all fronts and suffers daily casualties. It also has to deploy its personnel in the rear to protect civilians, he said.
According to the National Unity Government (NUG), more than 2,000 soldiers and police have joined the people since the military coup in Myanmar.
Sent by Than Lwin Times.