People charged for filing “visitors’ report” forms in Mawlamyine

July 21, 2022

HURFOM: In Mawlamyine Township, Mon State, local authorities instructed people who are temporarily staying in the township to file a “visitors’ report”. They must also put the “visitors’ report” in front of their house after sealing it with a plastic cover.

Local people are also being charged 500 Kyat by the village Administrators for filing the report and posting it as instructed.

“We have to do a “visitors’ report” every month. After that, we have to put the sheet in front of our house. We have to pay money to the hundred household leaders for sealing the sheet with plastic cover,” said a woman from Myine Thar Yar Ward, Mawlamyine.

The military junta instructed local authorities to check for “visitors” in Mawlamyine Township day and night during the second week of June, 2022. Local authorities have since been charging the people for simply applying for a “visitors’ report” form.

During the process of checking for “visitors”, the military junta carefully reviews the names in the household list against the names from residents’ ID cards. If someone is found not to be correctly applying for the “visitors’ report”, he/she might be arrested by the military junta, according to a resident in Mawlamyine Township.

On June 26, the military juntas security forces had checked for “visitors’ ‘ near the Academy Hotel in Myine Thar Yar Ward, Mawlamyine and arrested two people after checking their mobile phones.

A local source told HURFOM the military junta has instructed local authorities to check for “visitors’ ‘ every month in some wards in Mawlamyine Township.

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