Narinjara news
TOWNSHIP PEOPLE COMPELLED TO BUY TICKETS FOR THE MILITARY
SNACKSHOPS IN A FESTIVAL IN
Sittwe, 14th February 02:
Myanmar forces in Ponnagyun township which lies close
to Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine
State, in the western coasts of Myanmar, forced people to buy tickets of the
snack shops run by members of the families of local Light Infantry Battalion,
according to our correspondent.
The annual festival of Kuwa
Buddhist cave temple in the township began on
the 28th of January this year. On the 24th January the
The army sold tickets amounting to a total of kyat 800,000
among the traders and young men of the township, our correspondent quoted a
source in the local administration. It is widely believed that, the
constraints within the local infantry battalion forced them to resort to
opening up snack shops. In the festival members of the military
intelligence also took bribe and permitted gamblers to run illegal gambling
dens at night.
The Kuwa temple festival is an
annual affair held on the full moon day of the Rakhine
month of Pratho (January-February) and is attended by
people from all over Rakhine state. #