By Nway / MPA
Junta soldiers in Bago Region’s Paukkhaung Township have been disguising themselves as attendees at novitiate ceremonies and weddings to carry out civilian arrests, according to local sources.
On Thursday morning, six soldiers dressed in white long-sleeved shirts and longyis arrived in a private car and waited at a junction in a village within the Bawdikone village tract, Paukkhaung Township. They later arrested a civilian at gunpoint.
“They took a man in his 30s who had fled from Gyo Bin Village. We don’t know where they took him. This is the first time such an arrest has happened here,” Ko Thet Hnin Aung, president of the Pyay Township Basic Education Students’ Union, told MPA.
In addition to these abductions, the junta has intensified its forced recruitment of male internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Paukkhaung Township.
“Around 12 male IDPs have been forcibly taken since last week,” he added.
The junta’s arson attacks and raids in Paukkhaung Township have displaced around 5,000 civilians.
