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| Border fence on Burma-Bangladesh border. |
Burmese
army has begun the process of forming and arming the native Buddhist militia in the Yakhine
Buddhist villages along the Burma-Bangladesh border to counter the massive
illegal flows of Bengali Muslims from Bangladesh and cross-border raids by the
Bengali Muslim insurgents.
As the
very first step more than 300 Buddhist villagers from 30 border villages in North-Maungdaw
area have been receiving intensive training from the Border Security Forces of
Burmese army. The people militia (Pyithusit) training is being conducted at the
Na-Sa-Ka 4 Kyain Chaung compound. Na-Sa-Ka is the Burmese acronym for Border Security
Forces.
Following
was what the leading Buddhist monk from Nant-thar-doung village monastery near
Kyain Chung Na-Sa-Ka camp said of the training.
“The training was started on September 8.
Each village has to send at least ten young men as people militia to the Na-Sa-Ka
4. All together more than 300 men are now being trained in military drill and
small arms instruction. I don’t know the exact length of training yet!”
A Nan-thar-doung
villager attending the training eagerly said, “We are being trained by the officers from the Na-Sa-Ka and the army. Every
day we start at 9 sharp in the morning and then get one hour break at midday
for lunch. We normally finish at 4 in the afternoon and go back home to our
villages. We then continue on with our usual security duty at night.”
He then added that his village
Nan-thar-doung is only about three and half miles from the Na-Sa-Ka 4 camp. So
they just walk every morning to the training and walk back home after the
training. He said that they always get back home no later than 6 in the
evening.
The
villagers also eagerly said that the officers are telling them every village militia unit will be armed soon with at least ten rifles once the training is over.
According
to one villager from the village of Mawrawaddy in South-Maungdaw they are also
being trained to be armed as people militia. Army is training them right at
their village.
“The militia training began on the seventeenth
of this month in our village. Each village has to send ten young men. The training
starts at 7 in the morning and takes lunch break at 11:30 then restarts at 1:30
and ends at 4 in the evening. Our instructors are from the army’s LIB-352 and the
local police battalion. Training period is one month,” said the Mawrawaddy villager now attending the militia
training.
There were other training
camps to form the people militia units in other native Buddhist villages along the
border too, he even added with enthusiasm.
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