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Posted By admin on April 21, 2008

Since February 2007, an estimated 27 villages have had to take responsibility for sending one laborer from each household to improve the road from Man Tong to Namkham and Man Tong to Namsarn that will follow the power line route by the ordered if LIB 130 Commander.

When the Military started to build the power lines from Nammatu Township to across Mansan village each village has to be responsible for a 5-mile stretch of the road. They get nothing from labor and some of them have to sleep there for two or three more nights. In addition, they had to bring their own tools to repair the road and eat their own rice.

As the villager from Mansan said, “We are the people who struggle day by day; we do not have our own land. Now as we are bringing our own tools to repair the road, eat our own rice, and spend our time for this forced labor, we are in debt to our land owners.”

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