Forest ministry urges villagers to support for junta-backed parties

The Burmese Forests Ministry has urged the residents to vote for junta-backed parties in this year's elections, while a visited Village-tract Peace and Development Council's office Deemawso in Karenni state.

During the trip to Karenni state that started on July, a Burmese Forest Minister, Oo Thein Aung urged that the roads, bridges and halls will be built to vote for junta-backed parties, the residents who attended said.

"He said that the roads in our villages will be paved with cobble for one mile away and the bridges that belong to the irrigation department will be repaired. However, currently, three or four bridges are damaged."

Villagers were reportedly ordered one person in a family to attend a public talk by the forest ministry, but only 30 villagers from culture groups and head villagers were attended, an attended resident said.

According to the local sources, the absent to the public talk means not to vote for the junta-back parties.

In Karenni state, Dawngakar and Chikel villages from Deemawso township were known as villages which casted most "vote no" to the 2008 referendum laws.

Source:http://ktimes.org/en/news/regional/item/98-forest-ministry-urges-villagers-to-support-for-junta-backed-parties

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