Junta arrests three Maung Ma Kan residents and forces them into conscription

March 25, 2025

HURFOM: On March 14^th, 2025, junta’s troops based at the security gate at the Ka Myaw King Bridge, Long Lone Township, Tenasserim Division arrested three local men from Maung Ma Kan village tract and forced them into military conscription, according to local sources and their family members.

According to local sources and family members of those arrested said, 32-year-old Ko Pha Su Thar, 20-year-old Ko Thar Gyi from Ka V Hna Pin village, Maung Ma Kan village tract and an unknown man from Yat Kwet Thit (New Ward), were returning home from their fishing boat docked at Dawei City.

They were stopped at the security gate, arrested and then taken away by the soldiers.

“They were returning home from their fishing boat docked at Dawei, but were arrested at the bridge. Soon after the arrest, they were detained and their parents went there to meet them. They weren’t allowed to meet their loved ones and saw they were taken away by a “prisoner transport vehicle”,” said a source close to the families.

At 9 pm on March 15^th, the victims were able to phone their families, telling them they had been taken away by a ship.

“He said a ship full of (arrested) people had already left and they had to wait for another ship. After the phone call, we’ve totally lost contact,” said a mother of one of the arrested.

Nobody knows the reason for the arrest but the family members believe they will be sent to the “conscript collection camps” in Myeik or Kaw Thaung.

The locals also confirmed that the military junta usually uses ships to transport forcefully-collected conscripts to military camps in Myeik.

In November, 2024, the Pu Law Bridge Security Gate arrested more than 50 men including fishermen and forcefully collected them as military conscripts.

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