Road block by junta creates hardships for local villagers

December 11, 2024

HURFOM: Since the third week of November, 2024, the military junta has blocked part of the road between Kyaung Yaw and Sone Pa Dauk villages, Ye Township, Mon State. These road closures have created problems for plantation workers and local villagers.

The military junta chopped down ten rubber trees and blocked the road.

“The road has been blocked for 15 days already. The Sone Pa Dauk resident can’t go to Ye or Kyaung Yaw. The plantation workers and the villagers are in trouble. We have to use an alternative route to go to the plantation and it’s a little far. It isn’t okay to go around,” said a local villager.

Junta’s troops wait in ambush along the road and the villagers are afraid to use the road.

“They waited in ambush at the village entrance road and alongside Ye – Kyaung Yaw road. The villagers are afraid of using the road,” said a Kyaung Yaw resident.

Villagers said the junta blocked the road because armed resistance groups were active around Kyaung Yaw and Sone Pa Dauk villages.

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