80 Unlicensed Trucks Seized by the police chief

May 26, 2007

HURFOM

In the latest news to come from Mawlamyine, 80 illegal trucks in Mawlamyine were taken by the police according to a source close to NMSP (New Mon State Party) liaison office in Mawlamyine.

The police explained that unlicensed vehicles are illegal in the country when they stopped the cars at check points, on the main road in Mawlamyine. The cars were then seized according to the MNSP officer. Police even went to private home to look for unregistered vehicles, he added. The order to seize unlicensed cars came from the army chief police officer, Tin Yie, said an NMSP officer. Thousand of trucks have been taken by the police and army over the last few years. Some of the trucks were used by the police and army departments and some were used for government services.

Some critics questioned why the police don’t take the cars when traders smuggle them in across the Thai-Burma border. Most unlicensed trucks have to cross the Burmese army and police check points from Myakwathity township and Three Pagoda Pass township on the Thai-Burma border. The truck traders bribe the army officers and sneak the cars into Mon State.

The order to confiscate the cars came from the police chief, a KPF (Karen Peace Force) member said. This car confiscation could be a case of the police having fun according his second source from the Burmese army in Three Pagoda Pass

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