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Education and Health

 

The following two sections contain orders related to education and health matters.  The SPDC military and civil authorities try to exert control over all aspects of education and health as they do with all other aspects of life in Burma and the orders in this section give some indication of this.  The previous section, ‘Demands for Intelligence’, contains additional orders telling village heads to send lists of all details on schools and health clinics (see Orders #356, 380, 390, 398, 399, 403, 410, 419.) with the apparent purpose of controlling their operation and intimidating the villagers.

 

Education

 

These orders show that military control and forced labour also intrude even into education at the village level.  Orders #429, 430 and 435 demand wood for construction of schools and Order #431 demands substantial amounts of money for the construction of schools.  Whenever schools are built the villagers must provide all the building materials, the money for the cost, as well as the labour.  Much of the money given by villagers for the cost of building the schools goes into the pockets of the SPDC officers.  Army officers often use the construction of a school as an excuse to demand more materials than are necessary, and sell the surplus for their own profit.  In the same way officer often demand more money than is needed, or in the cases where money is sent by the Education Ministry to build a school, most of the money is pocketed by the officers while the difference is demanded from the villagers.  In some cases villagers have complained to KHRG that after providing all the demanded materials for building the school, the school is never built and the materials are never seen again.  Although the SPDC does provide salaries to some teachers, the villagers must pay the salaries of most of the teachers as well as pay for all school materials and school fees.


Order #427 (Pa’an)

                       Stamp:                                          Township Peace and Development Council
Township Peace and Development Council      
      Myawaddy Town
                Myawaddy Town                                  Letter No: x / x - xxx / Yay x
                                                                      
       Date: Year 2002, January 19th

            To:
                 - Chief of departments concerned
                    _________________ Myawaddy Town
                 - Chairperson / Village Head
                       xxxx                                               Section/Village
                    Peace and Development Council, Myawaddy Township

Subject:      Invitation to attend a coordination meeting for the opening of the ‘Ah Thon Lon’ training

Reference         Letter No: x/x - xxx/Yay x of Myawaddy Township Peace and Development Council dated 26-10-2002

1.         To reach 91 percent to 95.5 percent literacy percentage in Burma in the years 2000-2003 a movement of the masses has to be carried out.  During the education year 2001 - 2002 the implementation and carrying out of the Ah Thon Lon training in Rakhaing [Arakan] State and Kayin [Karen] State will begin.  To begin the implementation and carrying out of Ah Thon Lon training in Myawaddy Township, a coordination meeting will be held for the opening of the Ah Thon Lon training as below.  Ah Thon Lon training supervisory township members, members of Section/Village Peace and Development Councils, Chairpersons, clerks yourself attend without fail (without fail) and continue to invite the school headmasters from your section/villages’ basic education schools to attend the meeting and call them along, you are informed.

            (a) Date the [meeting] will be held       - 22-1-2002, Tuesday
            (b) Time the [meeting] will be held      - 09:30 hours
            (c) Place the [meeting] will be held      -Township Peace and Development Council, Chairperson’s Office Room

2.         The Village Ah Thon Lon Training Supervisory Committee still has to send the registers of xxxx, yyyy and zzzz villages, so the committee should organize and carry it out in accordance with the information in the organizing reference letter and bring along the committee registers, you are informed.

                                                                                                [Sd.] 19/1/2002
                                                                                              (for)  Chairperson
                                                                              Moe Kaing, Township Deputy Staff Head

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Copy to:
             - Chairperson, District Peace and Development Council
                Myawaddy District, Myawaddy Town
             - Township, Chief of Education, Township Chief of Education Office, Myawaddy Town - must know and continue to know the school headmasters concerned
             - File/Office Receipt Letter

[‘Ah Thon Lon’ is the Burmese equivalent of the English reading, writing and arithmetic.]

______________________________________________________________________________

Order #428 (Pa’an)

                                                   Township Peace and Development Council
                                                    
                  Myawaddy Town                                Date: 22-1-2002
To:             Village Head_
                 xxxx village__
               Myawaddy Town

Subject:            Invitation to a meeting

            Regarding the above subject, the meeting, we will hold a meeting with the aim as below.  Attend (without fail), you are invited.

Aim:                 ‘Ah Thon Lon’ training matter
Agenda:            Date (
25-1-2002) Friday
                         Time (10:00) hours
                         Place TPDC Chairperson Office Room

                                                                                                                   [Sd.] 22/1
                                                                                                             (for) Chairperson

______________________________________________________________________________

Order #429 (Papun)

                   Stamp:                                                                                            Date: 25-1-02
Peace and Development Council
            Date: 20-1-02
   K’Dtaing Dee Village Tract
                                                      To:
                                                           Head
                                                           xxxx [village]  

                                    Subject:
                                                 Wood matter

            In accordance with the directive of #36 Battalion from the Strategic Operations Command, send quickly 2 logs of thit poke [malodorous wood] to yyyy sawmill on 26-1-02 for repairing the zzzz teaching school, you are informed.
Note:
    thit poke (circumference) 4 feet, in length
                        18 feet, 2 logs.

                                                                                                                   [Sd.]

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Order #430 (Pa’an)

            To:                                                                                                               22-2-2002
                 Chairperson
                 Village Peace and Development Council
                 xxxx village

            Subject:            Temporarily hire the sawmill

Regarding the above subject, temporarily hire the sawmill for about 3 days starting on 24-2-2002 from Saw aaaa from elder’s village for the building of xxxx Monastery, teaching school and hall, you are requested.

                                                                                                                     [Sd.]
                                                                                                             Mobile Column
                                                                                                                Company #x

______________________________________________________________________________

Order #431 (Thaton)

                     Stamp:                                                                                        Date: 2-3-2002
Village Peace and Development Council
                   xxxx Camp                            To:
                                                                          Village Head
                                                                          xxxx, yyyy [villages]

            With respect, on 2-3-2002, in accordance with the decision of the xxxx [camp] Division Commander’s arrangement for the building of the middle and high schools together, the estimate of the money it will cost is 150,000 [Kyat], 150 thousand [Kyat].  The responsibility for sixty thousand (60,000) Kyat is given to xxxx big village and yyyy village.  Therefore, the big village has to take responsibility for thirty thousand Kyat (30,000K) and yyyy village for thirty thousand Kyat (30,000K), letting you know. 
            This money must be sent in April. 

                                                                                      [Sd.]  U aaaa, 2/3/2002
                                                                                         Stamp: Chairperson
                                                                           Village Peace and Development Council
                                                                                     zzzz Village, Bilin Township

[The SPDC is going to build a combined middle and high school.]

______________________________________________________________________________

Order #432 (Pa’an)

                       Stamp:                                            Township Peace and Development Council
Township Peace and Development Council         
     Myawaddy Town
                 Myawaddy Town                             
      Letter No #x / x - xxx / Yay x
                                                                         
      Date: Year 2002, April [unclear]
            To:
                 Chairperson
                    xxxx________ Section / Village Tract
                 Peace and Development Council (All)
                 Myawaddy Township

Subject:            Distribution and donation of books and pencils for the 2002 ‘Ah Thon Lon’ trainees.  

1.         For the Ah Thon Lon trainees males/females who are starting in the year 2002 dry season at Myawaddy District, Myawaddy Township, the District Peace and Development Council sent and donated 2,262 books and 2,262 pencils.  For the continued distribution of 1 book, 1 pencil to each Ah Thon Lon trainee male/female from your section/village tract, we are sending them in accordance with the attached list. 

2.         Without fail report again the situation when finished distributing it to the trainees of  the Ah Thon Lon training which is starting and training in your section/villages to the office, you are informed.

                                                                                               [Sd.]
                                                                                         Chairperson
                                                                            Kyi 16530/ Captain Ni Aung
Copy to:
            -Chairperson, State Peace and Development Council
                                    Kayin State, Pa’an Town
            - Chairperson, District Peace and Development Council
                                    Myawaddy District, Myawaddy Town
            - Township Chief of Education, Township Chief of Education Office, Myawaddy Town
            - File/Office Receipt.

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                                                                                                                                                 Attachment
List of the distribution of books and pencils to sections/village tracts which were sent and donated by the District Peace and Development Council

No

Section/Village tract

Number of trainees male/female

Number

Note

books

pencils

1

No (1) Section

   43

  43

  43

 

2

No (2) Section

   40

  40

  40

 

3

No (3)     “

   41

  41

  41

 

4

No (4)     “

   35

  35

  35

 

5

No (5)

    7

   7

   7

 

6

Yay Bu Village

   21

  21

  21

 

7

Meh Daw Th’Lay (b)

   70

  70

  70

 

8

Meh Daw Th’Lay (a)

   15

  15

  15

 

9

In Kyin Myaing

   13

  13

  13

 

10

Min Let Pan

   19

  19

  19

 

11

Pa Lu

   22

  22

  22

 

12

Waw Lay

     8

    8

   8

 

13

Pa Chaung

    56

  56

  56

 

14

Meh Ka Neh

    58

  58

  58

 

15

Ywa Thit

    20

  20

  20

 

16

Thin Gan Nyi Naung

  100

 100

 100

 

17

Huay Shan

    73

   73

   73

 

18

Meh P’Leh

  129

 129

 129

 

19

A’Pyin Gwin G’Lay

    50

   50

   50

 

20

Bpaw Law

  140

 140

 140

 

21

Than P’Ya

    71

   71

   71

 

22

Htee Char Ra

  250

 250

 250

 

23

Htee Wa B’Law

    50

   50

   50

 

24

Htee Law Thay

  250

 250

 250

 

25

Kaw Kaw

  250

 250

 250

 

26

Shwe Kok Koh

  302

 302

 302

 

27

Kyaw Koh

    49

   49

   49

 

28

IB#275

    25

   25

   25

 

29

LIB#355

    10

   10

   10

 

30

LIB#356

    34

   34

   34

 

31

LIB#357

    11

   11

   11

 

 

Total

2262

2262

2262

 

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Order #433 (Pa’an)

                        Stamp:                                           Township Peace and Development Council
Township Peace and Development Council        
      Myawaddy Town
                    [Illegible]
                                          Letter No # x / x - xxx / Yay x
                                                                      
         Date: Year 2002, April [illegible]
To:
     Chairperson
                  xxxx                Section / Village Tract
      Peace and Development Council (all)
      Myawaddy Township

Subject:      For the distribution of donated books and pencils to the Year 2002 ‘Ah Thon Lon’ trainees

1.                     The District Peace and Development Council sent and donated 2,262 books and 2,262 pencils for Ah Thon Lon male/female trainees who started the training in the hot season Year 2002 at Myawaddy District, Myawaddy Township.  Continue distributing to the Ah Thon Lon male/female trainees 1 book, 1 pencil each in your section/village tract, we are sending them according to the attached list.

2.         Report without fail the situation when finished distributing them to the trainees of the “AhThon Lon training which has opened and is training in your sections/villages.  Report without fail again to this office, you are informed.

                                                                                                               [Sd.]
                                                                                                    Stamp: Chairperson
                                                                                              (Kyi 16530/ Captain Ni Aung)

Copies to-
                 - Chairperson, State Peace and Development Council
                              Karen State, Pa’an Town.
                 - Chairperson, District Peace and Development Council
                              Myawaddy District, Myawaddy Town.
                 -Township Education Chief, Township Education Chief Office, Myawaddy Town
                 - File/ Office receipts.

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                                                                                                                                        Attached
List of distributed books and pencils to sections / village tracts that were sent and donated by the District Peace and Development Council.

No

Section/ village tract

quantity of male/female trainees

Number of

books

 

Pencils

Note

1

No (1) Section

    43

    43

    43

 

2

No (2) Section

    40

    40

    40

 

3

No (3)     “

    41

    41

    41

 

4

No (4)     “

    35

    35

    35

 

5

No (5)     “

      7

      7

      7

 

6

Yay Bu Village

    21

    21

    21

 

7

Meh Daw Tha Lay (b)

    70