The military junta has issued an order that people living in the town of Kantbalu, Sagaing Region, must hang their family photos in front of their houses.
According to some local residents, this announcement was issued in early February and people must done by February 14.
The junta announced that residents have to take three photos _ that have a size of 6 inches and 4 inches _ which shows the faces of all the family members living in a house _ and two of these photos must be sent to the relevant ward administrator’s office and the remaining one photo must be hung at a visible place of the home.
“The residents inside the town were mainly asked to do it. No one dare to do it because the junta ordered all must do it. The whole town is doing it and we just do it,” said a resident of Kantbalu town.
If people need to travel, they must ask for recommendation letter from Ward Administrator, Police Station and Military Area Command (6006 Artillery), and if it is a health affair, the recommendation letter from the hospital is also required.
“They (junta) are worried the people in the town will flee to outside of the town. They seems if there are no people in the town, the people’s defense forces will come to attack. So I think they orders people to prevent those from leaving the town,” the news official from the Local Spring Revolution Infinity Group, Ko Ananta told MPA.
Currently, trucks and passenger cars are going on inside the town of Kantbalu and the residents are still moving regularly, and there are no people fleeing their homes.
The Infinity Group announced that the junta troops fired several times with heavy weapons and launched airstrikes near the village of Cha Thein in the northern part of Kantbalu where the fighting was fierce on February 7 and 8.
Translator: Grace