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All of the orders in this section call for village elders to go to ‘meetings’, usually at a local Army camp. Village elders are deluged with these summonses every week from each Army camp in their area. Going to all these meetings makes it very difficult for the elders to tend their fields or perform their duties within the village. Although many of the orders use the word ‘invite’, they almost without exception add the phrase ‘without fail’. On receipt of the orders village elders are expected to immediately drop whatever they are doing and go to the Army camp, Order #580 explicitly says ‘make yourself free’. The meetings are more like lectures as the Army commander dictates to the village heads what forced labour, money or materials he wants and gives deadlines, or scolds and threatens the village head for being slow in meeting previous demands. Sometimes the elder is summoned to report on the movements of resistance forces in the area, and is threatened with punishment if any of the information is inaccurate. Orders calling for ‘discussions regarding village security’ usually means assigning villagers for forced labour as unarmed sentries, restrictions on the movements of villagers and threats of punishment if any resistance activity occurs in the area. SPDC officers often call all the village heads in their area to come to the camp at the same time so they can allocate the demands to each village. In these cases the orders are copied and sent out to as many villages as necessary.
The orders commonly include statements warning the elders that “the responsibility will be yours”, or the responsibility will fall on the village” if the elder does not come. These mean that the elder will be arrested and punished or that the village will be punished in some way, which could mean relocation, looting or burning of some of the houses. Some of the orders carry more explicit threats such as “serious action will be taken”. For example, in Order #466 a Company Commander writes, “Calling you for the last time with this letter. You did not fulfill the duty. You didn’t come to us and if we ourselves go to call you, I won’t take responsibility for you, [your] family and house. So when [you] receive this letter, come quickly to me.”
Village heads are usually afraid to go to these meetings, and often disappear off to their fields or other places when these orders arrive. This usually results in other more angry and threatening letters being sent from the officer, until after the third or fourth letter the village head has decide whether to go to the camp or flee the village.
Many of the orders in this section summon village heads to meetings where an SPDC officer orders them to perform forced labour. This undoubtedly has to do with trying to cover up the use of forced labour. The demands for forced labour are issued verbally and no written orders are issued. In this way there are fewer paper stamped orders which may be collected and used against the SPDC in reports such as this one. Villagers in many Karen areas have told KHRG that these meetings are becoming increasingly common and the issuing of order letters dictating demands for forced labour are becoming fewer.
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Order #443 (Papun) Stamp:
Frontline #36 Infantry Battalion To: Subject: Invitation to a meeting. 1. The villages in the area of military operations under control of our Battalion are to develop and progress comprehensively. We want to meet with the Elder so come without fail (without fail) to xxxx Camp to arrive on 2-2-2002 at 10:00 o’clock, you are invited. 2. If you fail to come, it is the responsibility of the Elder, who is concerned, warning and you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Elder, xxxx village, Emergency.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #444 (Papun)To: Subject: Informing you to come and meet with the Battalion Commander. Regarding the above subject, as soon as this informing letter is received, come quickly to meet with Frontline #38 Infantry Battalion, Battalion Commander at yyyy [village] today on 3-1-2002, you are informed.
Stamp:
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #445 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Date: 6-1-02
To: IB#39 Deputy Battalion Commander wants to meet you on 7-1-02 Monday at 9 o’clock in the morning, come without fail to the VPDC office, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #446 (Thaton)
Stamp: Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject a meeting will be held at xxxx Camp so village heads yourselves must come and arrive on 10-1-2002 at 09:00 hours, you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Chairperson, xxxx village.” At the meeting the Camp Commander ordered the villagers to go and repair the road so the Army could send its rations. The villagers were also ordered to provide 30 coconut seedlings from every village. The villagers sell the seedlings for 300 Kyat each, but no payment was given by the SPDC.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #447 (Thaton) To:
[Sd.]
U bbbb, 8/1/2002 [The village tract chairperson had heard that KNLA soldiers would come to xxxx village to celebrate Karen New Year, so he asked the village head to come and give him the information about it.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #448 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Township Peace and Development Council Subject: The matter of carrying out fire hazard prevention preparations. Reference: Pa’an District, Peace and Development Council letter number x / x - x / Oo x date on 19- 12-2001. 1. Regarding the above subject, taking heed of fire hazards and working to prevent fire hazards, all the organizations gathered, helped and carried out the convening of the Centeral Committee’s second meeting of fire hazard prevention at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement office meeting hall on 24-7-2001 and decided as below. To implement and carry out this matter, in accordance with the notification of the General Administration Directorate (Central Office) letter No: xxx / x - x / Oo x date on 24-9-2001, the District Peace and Development Council is informing you to know with this reference letter and to arrange and carry it out as necessary. (a) Organize to get 1 reserve fire fighter member from 1 family in every section [or] village in the township. To help and support the reserve fire fighter who was gotten from organizing, the local authority organization is to implement it level by level. General Administration Department servants are to direct the needs for carrying this out. (b) To reduce burning and loss in the villages, arrange and carry out keeping a portable fire engine in every village. 2. Therefore, Section / Village Peace and Development Councils have to organize, gather the lists and present them in accordance with the decision of the meeting as shown above and to know, follow and carry this out, you are informed.
[Sd.] Copy to- [Typewritten order with village name written in by hand. The portable fire engine is a petrol or diesel water pump.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #449 (Pa’an)
Stamp: Subject: Invitation to attend a meeting Regarding the above subject, come without fail to a meeting that will be held at the Battalion Headquarters on Year 2002 January 15th, Year 1363, the second day of the waxing moon of Pya Tho, you are invited. Place: xxxx
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #450 (Toungoo) To:
11-1-2002 Please come to meet me
in the evening at 5 o’clock on 11-1-2002 Friday at aaaa’s house. P.S. Come surely. * New Year matter. ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #451 (Thaton) To:
Chairperson
[Sd.] Subject: A meeting will be held on 16-1-2002, so come to yyyy village on the 16th at 2 o’clock.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #452 (Papun)
Stamp: Letter written from xxxx
Camp.
[Sd.] [The villagers were forced to come and fence the Army camp. The Army also demanded 300 shingles of thatch from the village.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #453 (Papun) Stamp:
Date: 16-1-2002 Writing a letter from xxxx Camp. Come without fail to xxxx Camp on 17-1-2002 at 08:00 o’clock, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #454 (Papun)
Stamp:
Date: 17-1-02 When this letter is received, come to meet with #36 Battalion Commander on 19-1-02, you are informed.
[Sd.] [Villagers at the meeting reported to KHRG that the commander told the village head, “Right now, I have come and replaced [the previous unit] so I want to meet with all the village heads. When you see KNU soldiers, you must come to report at once. If I know that you don’t come to report, I will take severe action. You must help me with what I need when I am staying at xxxx Army Camp as you did the people who stayed before me. You can’t stay without helping me.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #455 (Thaton)
Stamp:
We want to discuss about the matter of village affairs, so the Chairpersons must come without fail and bring along the papers relating to the village to xxxx Camp to arrive on 20-1-2002 you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed to “xxxx village”, Chairperson”. The village head was ordered to cut and clear the bushes from a road and to put sentries along the road because the Army was going to send food. The SPDC said that when they are sending food there should be no gunfire and no landmine explosions. If there is gunfire or landmine explosions, they will come to burn the village. They ordered the village head to take the responsibility. Several villages were at the meeting and all received the same instructions and warning.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #456 (Thaton)
Stamp:
We want to discuss the matter of village affairs, [so] Chairpersons have to come and bring along the papers relating to the village to xxxx Camp to arrive on 20-1-2002, you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed to “xxxx village, Chairperson.” The village head was ordered to send thatch, bamboo and wood to the camp.] ______________________________________________________________________________
Stamp:
Date: 19-1-02 #36 Battalion has to meet and discuss with the Heads so without fail attend a meeting at xxxx Army Camp on 21-1-02 at 9 o’clock in the morning, you are informed. Note: The Head yourself must attend the meeting.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #458 (Papun)
Stamp:
Date: 19-1-02 #36 Battalion has to meet and discuss with the Heads so without fail attend a meeting on 21-1-02, you are informed. Note: The Head yourself must attend.
[Sd.] [This order, although worded slightly differently, orders the village head to attend the same meeting as in Order #457.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #459 (Papun)
Stamp:
Date: 20-1-2002 To:
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________
To:
Date: 20-1-2002 As soon as this letter is received, come to meet with the Column Commander at xxxx Army Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] [Summons to this meeting were sent out to several villages in the area. Villagers who attended the meeting told KHRG the IB #38 Column Commander ordered “You have to come and help us. You have to give us information on time, every time. If you don’t come to tell us on time, it is the village head’s fault.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #461 (Papun) To: Date: 20-1-2002 Head, (xxxx village) As soon as this letter is received now, come to meet with the Column Commander at xxxx Army Camp, you are informed. If you fail, it is the responsibility of the Head.
[Sd.] [This is a summons to the same meeting as Order #460 above, but with the addition of the threatening second sentence.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #462 (Toungoo) To: Subject: The matter of attending a meeting IB#39 Column Commander at xxxx Army Camp [and] the new Strategic Operations Commander want to meet with Chairpersons/Secretaries from all the villages in Bawgali Gyi Tract according to the schedule below, so Chairpersons/Secretaries yourselves attend without fail, you are informed.
Date the meeting will be held
28-1-02 (Monday)
[Sd.] [This order was sent out to several villages in the area to attend the meeting.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #463 (Thaton)
To:
Stamp:
29-1-2002 As soon as this letter is received, come quickly to meet the column, you are informed.
[Sd.] [Villagers at the meeting told KHRG that, the intelligence officer said there should be no sound in the area for 3 miles around. If there is a sound, the SPDC soldiers will shoot into the village. The KNU is not to shoot at them, and if the KNU shoots at them, they will shoot back at the villagers.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #464 (Dooplaya)
To:
2-2-2002 Come to meet at xxxx Camp on 3-2-2002, you are informed.
[Sd.]
Captain [On the back this order is addressed “To: Chairperson, Village Peace and Development Council, xxxx village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #465 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 3-2-02 Subject: The matter of coming to Bawgali Army Camp. xxxx Army Camp #x Strategic Operations Command, Assistant Operations Commander, Military Staff Commander (Adjutant/Quartermaster) wants to meet with the Chairperson and Secretary from every village, so come without fail on 4-2-02 at Monday 7:30 hours in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] [This order was handwritten and carbon copied and sent out to several villages.] ______________________________________________________________________________
6-2-2002 Calling you for the last time with this letter. You did not fulfill the duty. You didn’t come to us and if we ourselves go to call you I won’t take responsibility for you, your family or house. So when this letter is received, come to me quickly.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Saw aaaa, xxxx village. From Company Commander, Maung Nweh Gyi.” This explicit and threatening order was written in red ink as an added threat to the village head.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #467 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Subject: The matter of attending a meeting IB#30 Deputy Battalion Commander at xxxx Army Camp wants to meet and hold a meeting with Chairpersons/Secretaries from all the villages, so attend the meeting according to the schedule below, you are informed.
Date the meeting will be held 11-2-02 (Monday)
[Sd.] [This handwritten order was carbon copied and sent out to several villages.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #468 (Papun)
To:
8/2/02 Come and arrive tomorrow at 07:00 hours in the morning to xx Miles [Army] Camp.
[Sd.] Company Commander ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #469 (Thaton) To: Village Head, [there is] a meeting with the village heads tomorrow on 9-2-2002 at 12:00 o’clock. So, come without fail to xxxx Camp, you are informed.
Stamp:
[Sd.] Place - xxxx [The village heads were ordered at the meeting to provide bamboo, wood and thatch to the Army camp.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #470 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Date: 9-2-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, as soon as this letter is received, come to the zzzz [village] Chairperson to arrive today at 05:00 hours in the evening, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #471 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Subject: The matter of attending a meeting IB#30 Deputy Battalion Commander at xxxx Army Camp will hold a meeting as below so the Chairperson must come without fail, you are informed.
Date the meeting will be held
11-2-02 (Monday)
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #472 (Thaton) Informing: Invitation
to attend a meeting Stamp:
Place: xxxx Distribution
______________________________________________________________________________ Order #473 (Thaton) To:
[Sd.]
U aaaa, 14/2/2002 [On the back this order is addressed “Give To: Chairperson, xxxx village, Emergency] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #474 (Papun)
Stamp:
Date: 15-2-2002
Writing a letter from xxxx
Camp.
[Sd.] [The village went and was told he must come to send information once a day.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #475 (Papun)
Stamp: Subject: Calling Village Head As soon as this letter is received now, come quickly to Frontline LIB#3 Column #x which has arrived and settled at yyyy village, you are informed.
[Sd.]
[This handwritten order was carbon copied and sent out to several villages in the area. The village heads were told by the Column Commander to send information if the KNLA soldiers came to the villages and to tell the KNLA to not shoot the SPDC soldiers or they will burn down the nearby villages if they do. He also demanded 2 big tins [25 kgs. / 55 lbs.] of rice.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #476 (Thaton)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
15-2-02
Subject: #36 Battalion [wants] to discuss and coordinate with the elders, so attend a meeting at xxxx Army Camp on 16-2-02 at 10 o’clock in the morning, you are informed. Note: Bring along 1,000 [shingles] of da ni [nipa palm] thatch, you are presented.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #477 (Papun)
Stamp:
Subject: Calling Chairperson As soon as this letter is received, come quickly with messenger to meet the column, you are informed. Note: ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #478 (Thaton) To: Subject: Chairperson must come to xxxx Camp As soon as this letter is received, Chairperson yourself come without fail to xxxx Camp, you are informed. * Come without fail.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #479 (Thaton) To: Letting [you] know. Come with the messenger who brings the letter now to meet at xxxx Camp.
U aaaa ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #480 (Thaton) To: Letting [you] know. In accordance with the invitation of the Division Commander, Chairperson and school committee (or) village mother, village father, the two people, attend without fail on 17-2-2002 at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, you are invited.
[Sd.]
U aaaa, 16/2/2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #481 (Papun)
Stamp:
Date:
16/2/2002 Subject: Calling the village head 1. Regarding the above subject, as soon as this letter is received, Chairperson/Secretary come quickly to report the information to the column, you are informed. 2. If you fail, it is the responsibility of the Chairperson, you are informed again.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #482 (Thaton)
To:
17-2-2002 Letting [you] know. In accordance with the invitation of the Division Commander, Chairperson and village mother, village father, 2 people, to attend without fail to xxxx Camp on 17-2-2002 at 1 o’clock, you are invited. [Sd.] U aaaa, 17/2/2002 [At the meeting, Division Commander Min Aung Hlaing said that he had come to do educational development at the high school so the villagers must support him.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #483 (Thaton)
To:
Date:
19-2-2002 Subject: Informing you to attend a meeting [Regarding] the above subject, in accordance with the directive of xxxx Camp Commander, you must attend a meeting at xxxx Camp on 20-2-2002 at 1 o’clock, so attend it without fail, with respect and you are informed.
[Sd.] [The local Camp Commander ordered the village head to go and ask the villagers to fence the Army camp. They had to go on 22/2/02. Every village in the area had to send 10 people.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #484 (Thaton)
Stamp:
Date: 19-2-2002
[Sd.] U aaaa, 19/2/2002 [The villagers were told by the LID #44 Commander at the meeting that a high school and a clinic would be built and the villagers had to help by giving about 100,000 Kyat from each village. Big villages had to give up to 200,000 Kyat and smaller villages had to give at least 40,000 Kyat. This was demanded from all the villages in the village tract. There are 41 villages in this tract. In total the Army demanded 2,980,000 Kyat. This is much more than is necessary to build a high school and a clinic. In addition to this the villagers were ordered to repair the car road so that it could be used all year long.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #485 (Pa’an)
Stamp: Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, we want to meet and discuss with the Elder, so come and arrive on 23-2-2002, 11th waxing moon of Ta Boh Dweh, at 10:00 o’clock, you are informed.
[Sd.] [This typewritten and copied order was sent out to several villages in the area.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #486 (Thaton)
To: Date:
22-2-2002 Letting [you] know, in accordance with the invitation of the Big Division Commander, two people, the Chairperson and school committee or the village mother village father from xxxx village, attend without fail a meeting at xxxx Camp on 24-2-2002 at 1 o’clock, you are invited.
[Sd.]22-2-2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #487 (Thaton)
To: Date:
22-2-2002 Subject: Invitation to attend the election Regarding the above subject, it is the turn of yyyy village to carry out the duty as the VPDC Chairperson of zzzz Village Tract in 2002. So, the election will be held on 13-3-2002 (14th waning moon of Ta Boh Dweh). The Elder yourself come without fail to Chairperson Daw aaaa’s house at yyyy village at 10 o’clock, with respect and you are invited.
[Sd.] [This election was for the village tract head. Although the villagers are able to elect the chairperson, he or she would have to be someone who is acceptable to the SPDC.] ___________________________________________________________________________ Order #488 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Subject: The matter of attending a meeting #x Strategic Operations Command, Operations Commander from xxxx Army Camp wants to meet and hold a regular monthly meeting with Chairpersons/Secretaries from all the villages, so attend the meeting according to the schedule below, you are informed.
Date the meeting will be held 1-3-02 (Friday)
[Sd.] [This handwritten order was carbon copied and sent out to several villages in the area.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #489 (Papun)
To:
26/2/2002 The elder, I am writing you a letter. The meeting that is held every Friday, has been changed to Wednesday, so when this letter is received, send the Chairperson (or) one responsible person to the camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #490 (Thaton)
Date: 27-2-2002 Letting [you] know. In accordance with the invitation of the Division Commander, Chairperson and village mother, village father (or) school committee, two people, attend without fail a meeting at xxxx Camp on March 2-3-2002 at 1 o’clock, you are invited. The total is 3 people.
[Sd.]
U aaaa, 27-2-2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #491 (Papun) Date: 28-2-2002 With respect, writing to inform
you as below.
Only this. Order by xxxx Camp, Captain
aaaa. ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #492 (Thaton) Stamp:
2-3-2002 We will celebrate a friendship festival at yyyy village, so attend a meeting as scheduled below. Invited by the column commander. Date- 4-3-2002 ______________________________________________________________________________
Stamp:
2-3-2002 Come with the messenger from zzzz village who sends the letter now in the night immediately to zzzz where we are staying.
[Sd.]
2/3/2002
Major aaaa, Frontline LIB#118 [On the back this order is addressed “To: 1. Chairperson (xxxx big village), 2. Chairperson (yyyy village.)” Villagers do not like travelling between villages at night, but SPDC officers expect village heads to be available to come to them at any time.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #494 (Thaton)
Stamp:
2/3/2002
[Sd.] 2-3-2002 Major aaaa, Frontline LIB#118, yyyy [The village head immediately went even though it was nighttime. The LIB #118 Commander said that nothing should travel after 6 p.m., people or animals. KNLA soldiers had gone and shot at his SPDC soldiers so he proclaimed this curfew which he was obviously breaking by forcing the village head to come to him at night. This is the same request for a meeting as in Order #493 above, but to a different village.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #495 (Papun)
Stamp:
Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, xxxx Base #x Military Operation Commander has to discuss the matters of the village with all the village heads so come to the Army Camp on 5-3-02 at 9 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] 3-3-02 [On the back this order is addressed “To: Head, xxxx village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #496 (Papun)
Stamp:
Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, xxxx Base #x Military Operations Commander has to meet, discuss about the matters with all the village heads so without fail attend on 5-3-2002 at 9 o’clock in the morning at xxxx Army Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] 3-3-02 [On the back this order is addressed “To: Head, xxxx village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #497 (Papun) To: Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Attend a coordination meeting at #18 Infantry Battalion, xxxx Camp, attend without fail to arrive on 4-3-2002 at 1200 o’clock at noon, with respect and you are invited.
[Sd.] [The villagers were ordered to send 10 people to go and fence the camp for one day.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #498 (Thaton)
Stamp:
To the village heads Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, xxxx Base #x Strategic Operations Commander wants to meet and discuss with all the village heads, so come without fail to attend at xxxx Army Camp on 5-3-2002 at 6 o’clock in the morning exactly, you are informed.
[Sd.] 3-3-02 [On the back this order is addressed “To: Head, xxxx village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #499 (Toungoo)
To:
Stamp: Subject: The matter of attending a meeting Regarding the above subject, in accordance with the directive of the Strategic Operations Commander, attend without fail a meeting at xxxx Police Camp on 5-3-02 at 8:30 hours, Tuesday morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #500 (Toungoo)
To:
Stamp:
Subject: The matter of attending a meeting Regarding the above subject, in accordance with the directive of the Strategic Operations Commander, attend without fail a meeting on 5-3-02 Tuesday at 8:30 hours in the morning at xxxx Police Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] [This order was sent out to several villages in the area summoning them to the meeting.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #501 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
4-3-02 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, we want to coordinate and discuss the matters of the Village Peace and Development Council, so come to yyyy [camp] on 4-3-02 at 10 o’clock, with respect, you are informed. Note: Do not fail.
[Sd.]
U aaaa ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #502 (Papun) To: Subject: Must come to xxxx Camp We want to discuss an emergency matter with the Elder. So, now, as soon as this letter is received, come without fail to xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #503 (Papun)
Stamp:
Frontline #36 Infantry Battalion
Subject: Calling to discuss the matter of regional development Regarding the above subject, to coordinate and carry out the necessary matters of development in the villages, come without fail (without fail) to Frontline #36 Infantry Battalion at xxxx Camp to arrive on 8-3-2002 at 12:00 hours. If you fail to come, it is the responsibility of the village Elders, warning you and you are informed. Temporary Battalion Commander Copy to: [See Order #505 below.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #504 (Papun)
Stamp:
Subject: Attending a meeting To carry out the duty of regional control and security of the village, the village heads must come to xxxx Army Camp to arrive on 9-3-2002 at 7 o’clock and do not fail by any means. Head yourself must come to meet with the Column Commander at xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] [The Battalion Commander ordered the villagers to cut and clear the bushes from the car road to Papun. The villagers had to take responsibility for the KNLA soldiers not coming to make problems for the Army.] ______________________________________________________________________________
Stamp:
Frontline #36 Infantry Battalion
To: Subject: Calling to discuss about the matter of regional development Regarding the above subject, to coordinate and carry out the necessary matters of development in your villages, come without fail (without fail) to Frontline #36 Infantry Battalion at xxxx Camp on 8-3-2002 at 12:00 hours and if you fail to come, it is the responsibly of the village Elder, warning and you are informed. Temporary Battalion Commander Copy to: [This typewritten and copied order was sent out to several villages in the area. Villagers who attended the meeting told KHRG that the Deputy Battalion Commander ordered the villagers to cut and clear the brush away from around a bridge so that it could not be easily burned. He also told the village heads to take responsibility that the KNLA does not come and make problems while the SPDC is sending rations to its units. He said that if any KNLA soldiers come and shoot at them or plant landmines and trucks are destroyed or soldiers lose their legs, they will force the villagers to pay for the price of the truck.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #506 (Papun)
Stamp:
Subject: Attend a meeting To carry out the duty for regional control and security of the village, the village heads must come to xxxx Army Camp to arrive on 9-3-2002 at 7 o’clock and do not fail by any means. Head yourself must come to meet with the Column Commander at xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ To: Letting you know. As soon as this letter is received, in accordance with the invitation of the Division Commander, attend without fail a meeting at xxxx Camp on 6-3-2002, letting you know.
[Sd.]
U aaaa, 6/3/2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #508 (Thaton)
To:
6-3-2002 In accordance with the invitation of
the Division Commander,
[Sd.] U aaaa, 6/3/2002 [This order follows on Order #507 above. Not all the village heads showed up for the first meeting, so it was cancelled and now the village tract chairperson is calling for another meeting the next day.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #509 (Thaton)
To: 6-3-2002 Present chairperson and former chairperson, 2 people, as soon as this letter is received, come to the Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed: “To: Chairperson from xxxx and Chairperson from yyyy, Chairperson from zzzz and wwww”. When the chairpersons went to the camp they were told the villagers had to get a letter of recommendation from xxxx camp before going to buy rice. If soldiers met them and they did not have a letter of recommendation, all of the rice would be confiscated.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #510 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
6-3-2002
To: When this letter is received, each village must gather 1 chairperson, village mother, village father, 2 people, from xxxx, yyyy, zzzz, wwww villages. There is an emergency matter at xxxx Camp so come to meet on 7-3-2002 to arrive at 08:00 o’clock. [Sd.] 6/3/02 [‘Su See’ means ‘gather/collect’ indicating that this is a relocated village.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #511 (Pa’an)
Stamp:
Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, when the Elder receives this letter, come without fail to report to #548 Light Infantry Battalion on 9-3-3003 at 18:00 hours in the morning and if you fail, it is the responsibility of the Elder, you are informed. 10th
waning moon of Ta Boh Dweh [9/3/02] [The villagers were ordered to send bamboo and 15,000 Kyat for paddy.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #512 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
6/3/2002 Subject: Calling to meet Chairperson Regarding the above subject, as soon as this letter is received, come quickly to send information to the column at yyyy, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #513 (Papun) To:
8-3-2002 Writing to inform you as below. When you see this letter, come to yyyy for a while. Do not fail. I have a big matter with you. Only this. Your younger brother [On the back this order is addressed: “xxxx village, Give to aaaa. This order was written in Karen and from one village head to another.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #514 (Papun)
Stamp:
9-3-2002 Village Head, as soon as this letter is received, come to meet with Frontline #36 Infantry Battalion at xxxx Camp and at the same time, Head bring along the sawmill owner U aaaa. If you fail to come to meet, it is the responsibility of the Head, warning and you are reminded.
[Sd.] Major bbbb ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #515 (Dooplaya)
To:
9-3-2002 To meet with Haung Thayaw Peace Group Leader U Saw Thu Mu Heh, come without fail to Division #88 at Kyaikdon to arrive today on 9/3/2002. Come to report information to xxxx Camp when you go, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #516 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Subject: Loh ah pay servant matter Regarding the above subject, come to Bawgali Gyi VPDC office to arrive at 9:00 hours in the morning, you are
informed.
Time to attend the meeting - Morning 10:00 [o’clock]
exactly
[Sd.] 9-3-2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #517 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Date: 11-3-2002
To: Subject: Calling to attend a meeting Regarding the above subject, a meeting will be held at yyyy village, so as soon as this letter is received now, Village Chairperson and village mother, village father, 2 people come to send the information to yyyy. If you fail, action will be taken, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #518 (Papun)
To:
Date: 11-3-02 For coordinating and discussion, come to xxxx [camp] tomorrow on 12-3-02, you are informed.
(U aaaa) ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #519 (Toungoo)
To:
Date:
14-3-2002 Subject: Calling to attend a meeting Regarding the above subject, to hold a meeting at yyyy [village], Chairperson and village mother village father, 2 people, from the Elder’s village attend without fail to arrive on 14-3-2002 at 6 o’clock in the evening, you are informed. [Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #520 (Toungoo)
To: Date:
14-3-2002 Subject: Calling to attend a meeting Regarding the above subject, to hold a meeting at Bawgali [with] Chairperson and village mother, village father, 2 people, attend without fail on 14-3-2002 at 6 o’clock in the evening, you are informed. [Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #521 (Pa’an)
To:
Date: 15-3-02
[Sd.] [On the back this order is address: “To: U aaaa, xxxx village chairperson, xxxx camp”.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #522 (Papun)
Date:
16-3-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. 1. We want to meet with the village heads from the villages in the
organisational region of #434 Light Infantry Battalion to coordinate and
discuss the organisation which is concerned.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Chairperson, Village Peace and Development Council, (xxxx) Note: Come to Kway Shan at 7 o’clock when the people specified the time.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #523 (Papun)
Stamp:
17-3-2002 Head, [we] will hold a meeting with the village heads at xxxx Camp, so come without fail on 18-3-2002 at 12:00 hours noon, you are invited. [Sd.] [The village heads were told by Captain aaaa that they had to take responsibility for the road while the Army was sending up its rations. He said there should be no gunfire and no landmine explosions.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #524 (Papun)
Stamp:
Date: 18-3-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, to come and meet with the Frontline #308 Light Infantry Battalion Column Commander, come to meet and arrive on 20-3-2002 Wednesday at 11 o’clock, you are informed.
Stamp: (for) Battalion Commander ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #525 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
18-3-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, come to meet with the Column Commander at Frontline #308 Light Infantry Battalion, come to meet on 20-3-202 Wednesday at 10 o’clock, you are informed.
[Sd.] [This summons was sent out to several villages in the area. At the meeting the village heads were told by the LIB #308 Column Commander that the villagers had to act as sentries along the road. He also said that KNLA soldiers should not shoot or lay landmines along the road. If the KNLA soldiers do shoot or lay landmines it is the responsibility of the villagers.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #526 (Papun)
To:
18-3-02 Fires must be prevented at the bridge, so come tomorrow on 19-3-02 to arrive at 07:00 o’clock at xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #527 (Toungoo)
To:
22-3-2002 [Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed to: “Chairperson, xxxx village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #528 (Papun)
Stamp:
Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, attend a meeting with the Column Commander from Frontline #308 Light Infantry Battalion at xxxx Camp, you are invited. Date of the meeting will be hold
(30-3-2002)
[Sd.] Note: From the elder’s village, send thatch roofing for xxxx Camp to arrive on 24-3-2002. ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #529 (Pa’an)
To:
Date: 26-3-02
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed: “To: U aaaa, (Chairperson), xxxx village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #530 (Pa’an) [To:]
Date: 28-3-02
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed: “To: Chairperson- aaaa, xxxx village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #531 (Dooplaya)
To:
Date:
31-3-200 Subject: Come to meet Regarding the above subject, when this informing letter is received, come to meet with the Column Commander today at xxxx village on 31-3-2002, you are informed.
[Sd.]
Captain ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #532 (Papun) To: Invitation to a meeting. 1-4-2002 Letting the village head know, you are informed. A public meeting will be held at yyyy village at the Monastery tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock exactly, you are invited. Come without fail, you are invited. The person holding the
meeting.
[Sd.] 1-4-2002 [On the back this order is addressed “To: xxxx [village], Chairperson.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #533 (Pa’an)
Stamp:
Township Peace and Development Council To: Subject: Invitation to attend a monthly meeting The Township Peace and
Development Council and Section/Village Tract Peace and Development
Councils will celebrate the monthly work coordination meeting on 9-4-2002
at 10:00 o’clock, so Section/Village Tract Peace and Development Council
Chairpersons and members, and also clerks attend without fail (without
fail) this monthly work coordination meeting. Bring along the lists shown
below that were asked for from this office, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #534 (Dooplaya)
To:
Date: 4-4-2002 Subject: Come to meet Regarding the above subject, when this informing letter is received, come to meet with the column commander at yyyy village on 4-4-2002, you are informed.
[Sd.] [The Column Commander demanded to eat chicken.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #535 (Pa’an)
Stamp: Subject: Attending a meeting Regarding the above subject, we want to meet and discuss with the Elder, so come and arrive on Year 2002 April 8th, Year 1363, 11th waning moon of Ta Paung, Monday at 09:00 time, you are informed. Place: xxxx
[Sd.] [This order was typed and copied with the village name written in by hand.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #536 (Toungoo) To: Subject: The matter of attending a meeting #x Strategic Operations Command from xxxx Army Camp will hold a regular monthly meeting according to the schedule below, so come without fail, you are informed.
Date the meeting will be held 6-4-02 (Saturday)
[Sd.] [This handwritten order was carbon copied and sent out to several villages.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #537 (Dooplaya) To: When this letter is received, chairperson yourself come quickly to xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.]
7/4/2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #538 (Pa’an) To: Subject: Attending a meeting Elder attend without fail a meeting that will be held on 11-4-2002 at 10 o’clock in the day at #548 Light Infantry Battalion, you are informed. Date:
9-4-2002
[Sd.] [This order was sent out to several villages in the area. The village heads were ordered to have their villagers go and repair the road at xxxx. They had to start work on 16-4-02, but the Army did not specify the date to be finished. The villagers simply had to work until it was finished.] ___________________________________________________________________________ Order #539 (Dooplaya)
Stamp:
To:
15-4-2002 Chairperson, a meeting will be held at xxxx Camp on 21-4-2002, so attend without fail, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #540 (Papun)
To:
Date:
18-4-2002 Subject: Invitation to meet with the column commander Regarding the above subject, come to xxxx Camp today on 18-4-2002 at 12 o’clock exactly to meet with the Column Commander, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #541 (Papun) To: Come without fail to yyyy village on 21-4-2002 Sunday at 11:00 hours in the morning, you are invited.
[Sd.] [When the village head went to the camp, the Company Commander demanded to eat one chicken, and ordered the villagers to weave 2 baskets for carrying porter loads.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #542 (Thaton) To: 23-4-2002 Respectfully, I am writing a letter. xxxx Village Head, as soon as this letter is received, come quickly to contact me, you are informed. It is at xxxx Camp.
[Sd.]
______________________________________________________________________________ Order #543 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Subject: Invitation to a meeting. We have to coordinate and discuss the matter of area security with the village heads who are included in the address above, so come without fail to xxxx Camp on 27-4-2002 at 09:00 o’clock, you are informed. The
elder [Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #544 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 1-5-2000 Tomorrow at 6 o’clock
in the morning (2-5-2002) time, come without fail to xxxx Army
Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #545 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
To: Subject: Attending a meeting The new Operations Commander who arrived at xxxx Army Camp wants to meet with the Chairpersons/Secretaries who are responsibile in the villages of Bawgali Gyi Tract as scheduled below, so come without fail, you are informed.
Date the meeting will be held
6-5-02 (Monday)
[Sd.] [This handwritten order was carbon copied and sent out to several villages in the area.] ___________________________________________________________________________ Order #546 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Subject: Come to meet with the local battalion. Regarding the above subject, the Elder yourself come to meet with the local battalion at yyyy[village] on 5-5-2002 at 3 o’clock today evening, you are informed. Place- yyyy [village] [Sd.] [Page 2] Da ni [nipa palm]
thatch - 300 (First) (13/5 2002) [The second page of the order letter contained the items which the villagers had to send to the SPDC Army camp.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #547 (Papun)
Stamp:
Township Peace and Development Council
Subject: Invitation to attend a meeting discussion 1. The Strategic Operations Commander from the Strategic Operations Command Group (Base) from Papun Town and the ethnic representatives from every hill in Papun Township will hold a meeting discussion as scheduled below. Agenda
Date: 1-6-2002 (Saturday) 2. Therefore, the ethnics from the hill villages to completely attend the celebration must continue to arrange and invite as needed. This was sent with 10 invitation letters attached, you are informed. Attached - Invitation letter (10) letters
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #548 (Pa’an)
To: Subject: Come to the battalion Have to meet and discuss the matter with the Elder, so as soon as this letter is received, come to #549 Light Infantry Battalion not later than 12 o’clock, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #549 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Subject: The matter of attending the Byu Ha [Operations Command] meeting The Operations Commander from xxxx Army Camp wants to meet and hold a meeting with pastor, assistant pastor from the religion club as scheduled below, so the elder Chairpersons/Secretary is to invite them, you are informed.
Date the meeting will be held 13-5-02 (Monday)
[Sd.] 12-5-2002 [This order was copied and sent out to several villages in the area.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #550 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 12-5-02 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, to coordinate and discuss tomorrow on 13-5-02 at 9 o’clock go to yyyy [village], you are informed. Note: (Do not
fail). ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #551 (Thaton)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
16-5-02 Subject: The matter of inviting to a meeting. #x Strategic Operations Command has to discuss and coordinate with the elders, so the Elder yourself attend without fail a meeting on 17-5-02, you are informed. Note: Bring along the remaining 5,000 Kyat for the drama festival.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #552 (Papun)
To:
17-5-2002 Now, as soon as you receive this letter, come quickly to yyyy village.
[Sd.] [The village head was questioned by the SPDC soldiers about the movements of the KNU when he went.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #553 (Papun)
To: Stamp: Date:
24-5-2002 Subject: Invitation to a hold a village development meeting To coordinate the work to carry out village development, as soon as this letter is received, come quickly to yyyy village at the Chairperson’s house, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #554 (Papun) To: Subject: Invitation to come to a meeting 1. To hold a meeting for the matter of village development, chairperson yourself come quickly to yyyy village as soon as this letter is received. 2. Come without fail and if you fail, it is the responsibility of the Chairperson, warning and you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #555 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 31-5-2002 The subject is the matter that the hill people must meet with the Operations Commander tomorrow on 1-6-2002. They must arrive at 9 o’clock in
the morning at Yunzalin Hall, so you will be on time tomorrow if U aaaa
comes to night. Call the heads from the nearby villages and come down tonight. That is all
[Sd.] 31-5-2002, (for) [On the back this order is addressed” To: Chairperson’ U aaaa, xxxx village.” Eight village heads were summoned to attend this meeting. The Operations Commander is expecting the village heads to drop whatever they are doing and walk down to where he is during the night so that they can meet with him in the morning. ] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #556 (Papun) To: Subject: Calling an
emergency meeting.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Village Head, xxxx village. Stamp: #27 Infantry Battalion, Column #x Headquarters.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #557 (Thaton)
Stamp:
Date: 4-6-02 Subject: The matter of inviting to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, #x Strategic Operations Commander wants to meet and discuss with the village heads so, attend without fail on 5-6-02 at 9 o’clock in the morning. Note: Do not fail.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: The Elder, xxxx [village].”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #558 (Thaton)
To:
7-6-2002 Subject: Calling to meet with the Column Commander. Chairperson, [there is] an emergency matter, so come without fail to meet with the Column Commander at yyyy village on 8-6-02 at 06:30 hours in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed to “Chairperson, xxxx village. (Send it quickly.)”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #559 (Pa’an)
Stamp:
Township Peace and Development Council To: Subject: Invitation to attend the monthly meeting The monthly work coordination meeting of the Myawaddy Township Peace and Development Council and the departments concerned, Section/Village Peace and Development Councils will be held as scheduled below, so the Section Peace and Development Council Chairpersons and members, section/village clerks attend without fail (without fail) this meeting, you are invited. (1)
Date - 12-6-2002 (Wednesday)
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #560 (Dooplaya)
Stamp:
To: Date 9-7-2002 Chairperson, when this letter is received now, come to xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #561 (Dooplaya)
To:
Stamp: Subject: Invitation to a meeting. A meeting must be held with the village chairpersons at Kyaikdon, Division #88, so go to Kyaikdon to arrive on 29-6-2002. Reply with the name of the chairperson who will attend the meeting at xxxx camp.
[Sd.] [The chairpersons and secretaries from Kya In and Kawkareik townships attended the meeting. The LID #88 Division Commander said in a speech that if the villagers saw any of the Army’s soldiers stealing poultry or other things when they came to the village, to report it to the Division Office once a month. Villagers are often too afraid to go and report about soldiers stealing their things out of fear of reprisals from the soldiers.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #562 (Dooplaya)
To:
Stamp:
11-6-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. A meeting must be held with the Village Chairpersons at Kyaikdon Division #88, so go to Kyaikdon to arrive on 29-6-2002. Reply with the name of the chairperson who will attend the meeting at xxxx Camp.
[Sd.]
Captain ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #563 (Toungoo)
To:
Date:
13-6-2002 When this letter is received, come quickly to meet at yyyy village.
[Sd.]13-6-2002 Also call aaaa [to come]. ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #564 (Dooplaya)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 15-7-2002 [You] didn’t come to the camp at the specified time, so come quickly now.
[Sd.] xxx ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #565 (Toungoo)
To:
Date:
22-6-2002 As soon as this letter is received, Chairperson yourself come to meet at yyyy village.
[Sd.]
22-6-02 To: As soon as this letter is received, Chairperson yourself come without fail to meet at yyyy village.
Bo aaaa [On the back this order is addressed to “Chairperson’s U bbbb, xxxx village.” This is actually a summons to the same meeting to two different villages and written on the same piece of paper.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #566 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Head, when this letter is received now, come to meet with the Column Commander, you are informed.
[Sd.]
24-6-2002 [The village head was questioned by the Column Commander about the situation in the village and the movements of the KNLA in the area. He ordered the village head to send intelligence on time. If the information did not come, he said he would fine the villagers.] ___________________________________________________________________________ Order #567 (Dooplaya)
To:
28/6/2002 Attend a meeting at Kyaikdon, chairperson yourself will attend/or not, and if you do not attend, call whoever will attend instead and come now to the xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #568 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
2-7-02 Subject: Invitation to a meeting Regarding the above subject, attend a meeting at xxxx [camp] tomorrow on 3-7-02 at 9 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.]
U aaaa ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #569 (Dooplaya)
To:
2/7/2002 An emergency matter must be discussed, so Chairperson or Secretary yourself come without fail together with the messenger tomorrow 3/7/2002 at 7 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #570 (Thaton)
Stamp:
To: Subject: Invitation to a meeting. We will meet and hold a meeting with village mother, village father from the village at yyyy village on 11-7-2002 at 09:00 o’clock, so come to gather and sleep at yyyy village on 10-7-2002, you are invited.
[Sd.]
6/7/2002 [On the back this order is addressed “To: Chairperson, xxxx village. Urgent”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #571 (Toungoo)
To:
Date:
18-7-2002 Subject: Come to xxxx Camp Regarding the above
subject, we have things to discuss, so come to meet at xxxx Camp on
19-7-2002 at 08:00 hours in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #572 (Thaton)
To:
Date: 18
-7-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. We have to discuss the matters of regional security in the area of our military operations, so the village heads yourselves (can’t send the representatives) come without fail (without fail) to xxxx Camp on 20-7-2002 at 09:00 o’clock, you are informed.
Stamp:
[Sd.] [At the meeting an SPDC officer said the village heads must take responsibility in the area where the SPDC Army unit is operating to ensure that the KNLA soldiers do not shoot at them. He said that if the KNLA shoots at them and one SPDC soldier dies, then three villagers must die.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #573 (Papun)
Township Peace and Development Council
Subject: Invitation to attend to meet and discussion. 1. The Strategic Operations Commander from Papun Town Strategic Operations Group (Base) and representatives of the ethnics from the mountain areas in Papun Township will celebrate and hold a meeting and discussion as the schedule shown below. Schedule Date: 1-7-2002
(Thursday) [Monday] 2. Therefore, attend without fail the meeting with the Strategic Operations Commander and arrive in advance and take your place at the specified time, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #574 (Nyaunglebin)
To:
Stamp:
Date: 26-7-2002 Subject: Informing of the discussion of an emergency matter Regarding the above subject, the Strategic Operations Command Headquarters will discuss the matter of asking the Elder’s village to make split bamboo and to discuss the other matters, so as soon as this letter is received now, come without fail (without fail) to meet the Column Commander, you are informed.
[Sd.] 26/7 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #575 (Dooplaya)
To:
31/7/2002 Tomorrow on 1/8/2002 you must go to Kyaikdon, so as soon as this letter is received now, come quickly to xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #576 (Papun) To: Subject: Attend a meeting. xxxx village chairperson or representative come to yyyy village on 2-8-2002 at 7 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #577 (Papun) Stamp:
To: Subject: Calling to discuss the security matter. Regarding the above subject, we have to discuss a security matter, so the chairperson yourself come to xxxx Camp, you are informed. Come quickly as soon as this letter is received.
[Sd.]Captain [The village head was told by the camp commander that KNLA soldiers should not come and shoot at him and that they should not shoot when his column is travelling. He ordered the village head to take responsibility for this. If the KNLA does shoot at them, he said serious action will be taken against the villages nearby.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #578 (Papun) To: As soon as this letter is received now, come quickly to meet with the column, you are informed.
Stamp:
[Sd.] [The battalion commander questioned the village head about the situation in the village and whether KNLA soldiers were moving in the area. He ordered the village head to tell him quickly if the villagers see KNLA soldiers.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #579 (Papun)
To:
9-8-2002 When this letter is received, come quickly to meet the column, you are informed.
Stamp: [Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________
To:
10-8-02 Bring
DKBA
Always be healthy. ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #581 (Dooplaya)
10-8-2002
Stamp:
[Sd.] [The village head was questioned about how many soldiers came when the KNLA or DKBA soldiers arrived in the village. He also wanted to know what kinds of weapons they carried and who their commanders were.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #582 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
[To:] Village Head Kler La Army (Operations Commander) and (Column Commander) who newly arrived now want to see our village heads, so come this week on 17-8-2002 Saturday at 9 o’clock in the morning exactly to the VPDC office. “After the meeting, rice will be
eaten one time.” ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #583 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
18-8-2002 As soon as this letter
is received now, come to meet the column at yyyy to arrive today,
you are informed. We will coordinate and carry out the necessary
matter.
[Sd.]
18-8-02 [The SPDC commander questioned the village head about the situation around his village and then ordered the village head to send him 2 chickens.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #584 (Papun)
Stamp:
[To:]
21-8-02 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, xxxx Base Strategic Operations Commander has a matter to meet, discuss and coordinate with the village heads, so attend without fail a meeting at the Army camp on 23-8-02 at 10 o’clock in the morning, you are invited.
[Sd.] 21-8-02 [An SPDC officer ordered the villagers to plant Thit Seik Bin trees. Each house in the villages had to plant 10 trees. If the trees died the villagers must pay 100 Kyat to the SPDC.] ______________________________________________________________________________
Stamp: To: Subject: Preparing the date for Chairpersons to come In accordance with the letter dated on 21-8-2002, (instead) of calling the chairpersons to come on 26-8-2002 to arrive at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, change to 28-8-2002 at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, (5th day of the waning moon of Wa Koung), you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #586 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
25-8-2002 Security matters must be discussed, so Chairperson yourself come immediately with the messenger who was sent now. If you fail to come, it is the responsibility of the Chairperson, you are informed.
[Sd.] 25/8 [The village head was questioned about whether KNLA soldiers had come to his village or not.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #587 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Date: 25-8-2002 As soon as this letter is received, come to meet with the Column Commander for a while.
[Sd.] [The village head was questioned whether KNLA soldiers were staying in his village or not. The village head told the officer they were not, but the officer ordered the head fined 10 viss [16 kgs. / 36 lbs.] of pork anyway.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #588 (Papun)
To:
Date:
30-8-2002 An emergency matter must be discussed, so come to meet the Company Commander at yyyy village to arrive at 12:00 o’clock today, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #589 (Papun) To: As soon as this letter is received now, come quickly to meet with the column, you are informed.
[Sd.] [The Battalion Commander ordered the village head to come and tell him if KNLA soldiers pass through the village. If he knows that KNLA soldiers were in the area, but the village head did not tell him, he will fault the villagers and the village head.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #590 (Thaton)
Stamp:
To: Date: 9-9-2002 As soon as this letter is received now, come to meet with the Column Commander at yyyy village today at 12 o’clock exactly. Do not fail and carry it out with special consideration, you are informed.
[Sd.]9-9-2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #591 (Papun)
Stamp:
Township Peace and Development Council
Subject: Invitation to attend a meeting and discussion. 1. The Strategic Operations Commander from Papun Town Strategic Operations Command Group (Base) and representatives of the ethnics from the mountain areas at Papun Township are holding a bimonthly regular meeting and discussion. It will be celebrated and held at the time scheduled below. Agenda Date:
7-10-2002 (Monday) 2. Therefore, attend without fail the meeting and discussion to be held with the Strategic Operations Commander, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #592 (Dooplaya)
To:
14/9/2002 Come to xxxx Camp to arrive on September 15th at 8 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] [When the village head arrived the SPDC asked, “Did the KNU soldiers come? How many soldiers came each time? What kinds of weapon did they bring? Did they also bring big weapons?” The village head answered, “Our village lies on the way the KNU soldiers travel, so they always arrive one or two times in a week. We don’t know the name of their commander. We also don’t dare to ask them. They all had guns including big weapons.” The SPDC officer told the village head, “Whenever the KNU soldiers come, come to send the information to us at once.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #593 (Papun)
To:
16-9-02 #341 Battalion Commander wants to meet and discuss with the Elder, so come to the Battalion Office today to arrive at 10 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #594 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Date: 22-9-2002 As soon as this letter is received now, come to xxxx Camp. Column Commander [SPDC IB #93 Battalion Commander asked the village head if the villagers each received 3,000 Kyat in support money from the KNU. The village head told him, “The KNU gave 3,000 Kyat for each villager.” The officer told the village head that the money was fake and the village head went to show it to him.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #595 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 25-9
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #596 (Papun) Stamp:
To: Date:
26-9-2002 Subject: Attending a meeting Regarding the above subject, xxxx #x Strategic Operations Command wants to meet and discuss, so come without fail on 28-9-02 to arrive at 9 o’clock Saturday, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #597 (Dooplaya)
To:
Stamp:
Subject: Calling a
meeting.
[Sd.] [They asked “Did KNU soldiers come? How many soldiers came? What is the name of their commander?” The village secretary answered, “KNU soldiers came, but I didn’t dare to ask the name of their commander.” The SPDC officer said, “If KNU soldiers enter your village again, come to let us know at once.] ___________________________________________________________________________ Order #598 (Pa’an)
To:
Date: 29-9-2002 I am writing a letter. 2 of you
or, one of you come to the Battalion.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________
Stamp:
To:
30-9-2002 Subject: Must come to xxxx camp As soon as this letter is received, Chairperson yourself must come without fail to xxxx camp to arrive on 30-9-2002 today, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #600 (Papun)
To:
30-9-02 #341 Adjutant wants to meet and discuss with the Elders from yyyy Village Tract, so come to gather at yyyy Chairperson’s house on 1-10-2002 tomorrow, Tuesday at 9 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #601 (Papun)
To:
Stamp:
6-10-2002 As soon as this letter is received, come quickly to meet at the column, you are informed.
[Sd.] [The SPDC officer asked for information on the movements of the KNLA. He told the village head that if the villagers see KNLA soldiers, they must go and tell him immediately.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #602 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Date:
7-10-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above
subject, #xxx Tactical Operatiosn Command Military Operations
Command Group is going to coordinate and discuss the matters concerning
the progressive development of the standard of living, so attend a meeting
at xxxx Camp on 10-10-2002 to arrive at noon 12:00 o’clock, you are
informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #603 (Papun) [To] xxxx village 8-10-02 As soon as this letter is received now, come to yyyy [village].
[Sd.] [The column commander asked for information about the KNU.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #604 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Date:8-10-02 Subject: Discussion of an emergency matter. From #x Strategic Operations Commander, as soon as this letter is received now, come quickly to xxxx Army Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] [When the village head arrived he was asked for information about the KNU.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #605 (Papun)
Stamp:
Subject: Informing of holding a coordination meeting concerning road security. Regarding the above subject, we have to discuss with the elders, so come without fail to xxxx Camp on 9-11-2002 at 08:00 hours in the morning and if you fail, it is the responsibility of the elders, you are informed. Place: xxxx
Camp
[Sd.] [The villagers were ordered to go as sentries along a road. If villagers did not want to go they had to pay 1,000 Kyat. The villagers could not pay so they went to do it themselves.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #606 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 9-10-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. #xxx Tactical Operations Command Military Operations Command Group will hold a meeting with the village heads, so come to xxxx Camp on 12-10-2002 to arrive at 12:00 o’clock. Come with the invitation letter, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #607 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 10-10-02 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, to meet and discuss with the Elder, come to meet tomorrow on 11-10-02 at 9 o’clock, (Note) [This order was sent out to several villages in the area.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #608 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
10/10/2002 As soon as Chairperson receives this letter, you must go up to the Strategic Operations Command, so now quickly come quickly to give [something] to xxxx Camp, writing a letter and you are informed.
yyyy Assistant Chairperson ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #609 (Papun)
Stamp:
Elder
Date: 10-10-02 Subject: The matter of inviting to a meeting #x Strategic Operations Command has to meet, discuss and coordinate with the elders, so attend without fail a meeting on 12-10-02 at 10 o’clock in the morning at xxxx Army Camp, you are informed. Note:
The elder
yourself
[Sd.] 11-10-02 [On the back this order is addressed “To: Head, xxxx [village]”. The Operations Commander ordered the villagers to cut and clear the brush along the road and to carry water for him. ] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #610 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
11-10-2002 Subject: The matter of attending a meeting. From xxxx #x Strategic Operations Command wants to meet and discuss with the [village] heads, so come without fail on 12-10-2002, at 10 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Head, xxxx [village].” The Deputy Operations Commander ordered the village heads to always go and report information to him. He said that if they did not go, severe action would be taken against them and they would be put in a cell.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #611 (Toungoo)
Stamp:
Subject: Invitation to a meeting. 1. We will celebrate and
hold a security meeting which concerns the villages in Bawgali region on
17-10-02 at 12 o’clock at xxxx village in the Village Peace and
Development Council Office.
[Sd.] [Security meetings often amount to lectures by SPDC officers who tell the assembled village heads that they will be held responsible for any KNU/KNLA activity in the area. The village heads are also usually threatened with having their village burned or relocated if any fighting occurs or landmines explode.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #612 (Dooplaya)
Stamp:
To:
14-10-2002 When this letter arrives now, chairperson yourself come to send the information to xxxx Camp, you are informed. Do not fail.
[Sd.] [The camp commander demanded messengers and for information to be sent to him regularly.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #613 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 17-10-02 Subject: To meet and discuss with the Strategic Operations Commander, come to the Strategic Operations Command tomorrow on 18-10-02 at 8 o’clock in the morning, you are informed. (If you fail) ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #614 (Papun)
Stamp:
Elder Date: 18-10-02 Subject: The matter of inviting to a meeting. #x Strategic Operations Command has to meet and discuss with the elders, so come without fail to attend a meeting on 19-10-02 at 9 o’clock in the morning at xxxx Army Camp, you are informed. Note: The elder yourself must
attend. [On the back this order is addressed “To: Elder, xxxx [village].” IB #54 Battalion Commander ordered that if there is information about resistance groups, then the village head himself must come to send it. He said they will take strong action if the village head himself does not come.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #615 (Papun)
Stamp: To: Subject: Invitation to a meeting A meeting will be held with the village heads on 25-10-2002 Friday, so attend without fail at xxxx Army Camp to arrive at 8 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.]Lt.Colonel [This order was sent out to several villages in the area who were all summoned to the meeting. The Battalion Commander told the village heads that they had to take responsibility for the road and that landmines should not explode or ambushes happen along it. The villagers must cut and clear the brush along the road, act as sentries, and sweep it for landmines every morning. He also ordered that the village heads must come and tell him immediately if KNLA soldiers are seen near the villages. He also demanded 300 thatch shingles and 100 pieces of bamboo from each village. The villages were ordered to deliver them by the end of the month.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #616 (Papun) To: Subject: Calling 1. Regarding the above subject, the Strategic Operations Command wants to meet about the landmine explosion between yyyy and zzzz, come quickly to xxxx Camp on 23-10-2002 at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, you are informed.
[Sd.]
Lieutenant aaaa [The village heads will likely be scolded for the landmine and their villages fined.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #617 (Papun)
To:
23-10-2002 Subject: Summons 1. Regarding the above subject, to know about the landmine explosion between yyyy and zzzz, the Strategic Operations Command wants to meet the chairpersons, so come quickly to xxxx Camp on 23-10-2002 at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, letting you know.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #618 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Subject: Informing to come to the camp We must meet and discuss with the Elder, so come without fail to xxxx (yyyy) Camp on 26-10-2002 at 08:00 in the morning, you are informed. Place: xxxx
Camp
[Sd.]
24-10-02 [The villagers were ordered to repair the road and told to take responsibility for it. They were told that there should not be any KNLA ambushes or landmines on the road.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #619 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
24-10-2002 You must arrive today at 8 o’clock in the morning at yyyy village at the local column. We have to discuss emergency matters with the head / assistant head, so come without fail, you are informed. Note: It is the responsibility of the people who fail.
[Sd.]
Captain [The village heads were told to have their villagers cut and clear the brush along the road.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #620 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Subject: Informing you to come to the camp We must meet and discuss with the elder, so come without fail to xxxx (xxxx Camp) on 26-10-2002 to arrive at 0:800 o’clock in the morning, you are informed. Place: xxxx
Camp
[Sd.] 24-10-2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #621 (Papun)
Stamp: Subject: Informing you to attend a meeting 1. Regarding
the above subject, a meeting will be held with the village heads on the 30th
at 8 o’clock at xxxx [monastery], Papun Township, so the
elders must go to Papun on the 29th, you are informed. Place: xxxx
Camp
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Chairperson, xxxx village.” The village heads were told to take responsibility for the Papun-Ka Ma Maung road so that KNLA soldiers could not make problems while the Army was sending rations. They said they would take serious action against the villagers and the village heads if there were any problems. The villagers would have to pay for any destroyed trucks or dead or wounded SPDC soldiers.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #622 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Date: 26-10-02 Subject: Discussing of an emergency matter. From #x Strategic Operations Command, as soon as this letter is received now, there is an emergency matter, so come quickly to xxxx Army Camp with the bicycle messenger, you are informed. Note:
If you fail,
[Sd.] [The village head was ordered to provide bullock carts to carry water for the SPDC.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #623 (Papun)
Stamp:
Secret Subject: Invitation to a meeting. 1. Regarding
the above subject, for the clearing of the dangerous landmines along the
car road in Papun Township, we will celebrate and hold [a meeting]
at xxxx [monastery] in Papun Town on the 30th of
October at 08:00 hours.
[Sd.] Secret [This typewritten order was sent out to several villages summoning them to the meeting. At the meeting the Operations Commander told the village heads that there should not be any landmine explosions or gunfire along the Papun-Ka Ma Maung road. The villagers would be held responsible if these things happened.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #624 (Thaton)
To:
30-10-2002
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “To: Village Head, xxxx village. Send the rest of the letters to arrive today.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #625 (Papun) To: Date: 2-11-2002 The Village Chairpersons shown below, Village Chairperson or Secretaries from xxxx Village Tract, come to xxxx Camp on 4-11-2002 to arrive at 12 o’clock Monday, you are informed (a) xxxx
village “
[Sd.]
Lieutenant [On the back this order is addressed “To: xxxx Village Chairperson. From: xxxx Camp.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #626 (Pa’an)
Stamp:
To: Subject: The matter of meeting and discussing. Regarding the above subject, we want to meet and discuss with the Elder, so come without fail to #549 Light Infantry Battalion on 7-11-2002 at 12:00 o’clock, you are informed.
[Sd.] [This order was also sent to several other villages in the area.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #627 (Thaton)
To:
Stamp:
5-11-2002 Subject: Discussion of an emergency matter. Regarding the above subject, as soon as the village head receives this letter now, come quickly (quickly) to meet the column at yyyy village, you are informed. If you fail to come, it is the responsibility of the Head, you are informed.
[Sd.] [At the meeting the SPDC Column Commander said “Fighting must not occur near the village. If the fighting occurs near the village or in the village, we will be burn the village and drive the villagers out from the village.”] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #628 (Dooplaya)
Stamp:
To:
6/11/2002 Subject: Village Chairperson must come. Regarding the above subject, Chairperson from xxxx village come to meet with the new camp commander at xxxx [camp] on 7-11-2002, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #629 (Dooplaya)
To:
7-11-02 As soon as this letter is received
now, come to meet. [The SPDC soldiers demanded 7 baskets [175 kgs. / 385 lbs.] of rice. The Village Secretary apologised to the soldiers and said they did not have 7 baskets and gave them one basket instead.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #630 (Papun)
To:
Date:
8-11-2002
[Sd.] 8-11 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #631 (Papun)
To:
10-11-02 To discuss and coordinate regional security matters for the Elder’s Village, Chairperson yourself or one of the representatives come without fail to meet at xxxx Camp on the 12th to arrive at 12:00 o’clock, you are informed.
[Sd.] [‘Ya Ta La’ is a Burmese acronym for ‘Frontline Infantry Battalion’.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #632 (Thaton)
To:
Stamp: Date: 12-11-2002 As soon as this letter is received now, come to meet the Column Commander for a while at xxxx village, do not fail and keep with special consideration.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #633 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date: 12-11-02 Regarding the above subject, we want to meet and discuss with the elders, so you must come to meet on 13-11-02 at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning at xxxx Camp, you are informed.
[Sd.] [This summons was sent out to several villages in the area.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #634 (Papun)
To:
Stamp: When the Head receives this letter, come to xxxx Camp on 12-11-2002 to arrive at 10:00 o’clock in the morning.
[Sd.]
aaaa, Lt. Colonel ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #635 (Dooplaya)To:
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed “Give to xxxx Chairperson Mother aaaa.” This order was from the IB #83 Camp Commander.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #636 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
15-11-2002 We want to meet and discuss with the elder, so come without fail (without fail) to xxxx Army Camp to arrive on 16-11-2002 at 8 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.]Captain [The battalion commander talked about the road and ordered the villagers to tell him immediately if they see KNLA soldiers.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #637 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Subject: The matter of attending a meeting. From the elder’s village, the elder bring the father of aaaa from KNU at the same time and come without fail (without fail) to meet at xxxx Army Camp tomorrow on 16-11-2002 at 08:00 hours in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.]Captain [The SPDC probably intend to question the father about the whereabouts of his son and whether he has been in contact with his son recently.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #638 (Dooplaya)
To:
18-11-2002
Stamp:
[Sd.] [The LIB #416 Battalion Commander talked to the village heads about a villager who had been injured during fighting in the area a few days before. He told them that the KNLA had shot the villager and not SPDC soldiers. He then ordered the two village heads to sign a document to that effect and took their photo.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #639 (Papun)
To:
Date:
21-11-2002 An emergency matter must be discussed, so Chairperson yourself come without fail to send information to xxxx Camp tomorrow on 22-11-2002 at 8 o’clock in the morning, you are informed. Lateness is not accepted at all.
[Sd.] 21-11 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #640 (Papun)
To:
23-11-02 The Captain from #341 Battalion wants to meet and discuss with the Elder, so come to report at the Chairperson’s house on 24-11-02 Sunday tomorrow at 8 o’clock in the morning, you are informed.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #641 (Papun)
Stamp: To: Emergency matters must be coordinated, so come without fail to meet at the nursery school, yyyy village. Arrive today on 24-11-2001, you are informed.
[Sd.] [The company commander asked for information about KNLA soldiers in the area.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #642 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
Date:
9-12-2002 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. The Tactical Operations Commander will meet and hold a meeting at xxxx Camp on December 10th 2002 at 15:00 hours (3 o’clock in the evening), so come without fail, you are informed.
[Sd.] [On the back this order is addressed to “Chairperson, xxxx village. Captain bbbb, ask the messenger to contact and send this. [Sd.]”.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #643 (Papun)
Stamp:
Date: 13-12-02 Subject: Invitation to a meeting. Regarding the above subject, to meet and discuss with the [Village] Tract Chairpersons, come to yyyy tomorrow on 14-12-02 at 9 o’clock, you are informed. (Do not
fail.)
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #644 (Dooplaya)
To:
Date:
16-12-2002 Chairperson, writing a letter and informing you. As soon as this letter is received now, come immediately together with the messenger, with respect and you are requested.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #645 (Papun)
To:
Stamp: Date:19-12-2002 As soon as this letter is received, come without fail together with the messenger-sending this letter to meet with the Column Commander Major at yyyy village, you are informed. (Come to arrive to meet today.)
Stamp:
______________________________________________________________________________ Order #646 (Papun)
To:
Date: 20-12-02 Subject:
Invitation to a meeting. ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #647 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
10-1-2003 Chairperson, when this letter is received, come to meet with the Battalion Commander at yyyy village to discuss the security matters, you are informed.
[Sd.]
10-1-2003 [The Column Commander ordered the villagers to take responsibility for security along the road.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #648 (Papun)
Stamp:
To: Chairperson, come to yyyy village on 13-1-2003 to arrive at 08:00 hours in the morning, you are informed. Place: xxxx
village
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #649 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
15-1-2003 Chairperson, when this letter is received, come to meet with the Battalion Commander at yyyy village on 16-1-2002 at 12:00 hours to discuss security matters, you are informed.
[Sd.]
15-1-2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #650 (Papun)
Stamp:
To:
15-1-2003 Chairperson when this letter is received now, come to meet with the Battalion Commander at yyyy village to discuss security matters on 16-1-2003 at 12:00 hours, you are informed.
[Sd.]
15-1-2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #651 (Papun)
To:
Date:
16-2-2003 You are informed. The Major who
is resurfacing the road has to coordinate business matters, so come to
meet when you receive this letter, you are informed. Come without fail.
[Sd.] ______________________________________________________________________________ Order #652 (Pa’an) [To:]
Subject: Calling a
meeting.
[Sd.]
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