The junta’s military reportedly confiscated the restricted army books selling in a used bookstore in Mandalay City, Mandalay Region.
“The restricted army books were confiscated from Naung Ta Kywat Hlaing bookstore on 22 Street in West Pyigyi Kyetaye Ward in Aungmyethazan Township, at 3:00 p.m. yesterday,” a person close to bookstore said.
“Yesterday, the junta came to confiscate it. I heard they came to check it because of an informant. They confiscated secret and restricted army books and all books related to army, but they didn’t make trouble to the bookstore,” he said.
A total of 158 books 136 army training books, 15 army magazine books, 1 army parade book and 6 police law books _ were confiscated by the military from this bookstore.
“Now, army books have been confiscated. Since the military coup, some political books can no longer be bought in many bookstores in Mandalay, and publishing houses no longer publish such books,” a young man from a reading club in Mandalay, said.
The restricted army books that were written about military administration published by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1997, and those books were reportedly taken away into the Mandalay Palace where is located the headquarters of the Military Central Command.