Villagers Paid Taxes to work in Thailand

May 19, 2007

HURFOM

In Pangone Village, Paung township, the civilians were taxed 10, 000 kyats for each person who worked in Thailand by the police.

A villager from Pangone, said the villagers couldnâ€™t refuse to pay to the district police officer as they taxed coming to home.

The police officer Aung Min Lwin asked money those who go to work or come back for work from Thailand. He (the police) didnâ€™t consider for the workers who donâ€™t bring back money and arrested by Thai police, he added.

The demand taxes by police in the village have been occurred for a long time. But no one dares to speak out to the media groups outside the country according to the villager.

There were a village called Kyaik Paw village, in Pegu township and the villagers spoke to the media groups about the police corrupted to the civilians worked in Thailand, after the news released, the villagers were more restricted working in Thailand according to the boy.

Burma restricted Burmese people working in Thailand and announced a statement to sentence people who are agent migrants.

However, as the corruption among the military officers, the law doesnâ€™t effect to the country and as inflation and unemployed the civilians, million of people searched for job in Thailand.

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