YANGON DIVISION – Some of the shop owners said that the Junta Council forcibly removed the public shops that had been sold by the military for ages inside the Nawaday cinema complex in the number 5 ward of Mayangone township, Yangon Division.
The Ministry of Information, which is under the terrorist junta council, forcibly seized public shops that had to be bought at the price of hundreds of lakhs and put up signs saying that they belonged to the department.
Since October 2022, after the director of the Information and Public Relations Department under the Terrorist War Council, Ye Lin Myint, asked the people to start removing the shops that people had bought and leased outside the Nawaday Cinema on Ward 5, Oak Pon Hsate Road, Mayangone township and electricity and water supply were cut off.
These shops were built as funds of the Ministry of Information during the previous military regime, and were allotted to military officers and sold by them. Current owners are civilians.
Although they were asked to remove the shops, the Department of Information and Public Relations did not pay compensation to the people and the people continued to live there. However, since January of this year, the Department threatened to force them to move again.
In order to make it difficult for the people who are still living in the shops, the Department sent a letter to the office and blocked them from receiving the formal guest list at the ward office, sending internal letters to the municipal offices not to issue shop licenses, municipal licenses, due to the threat of conscription law to the people living in the shops, all the shops have been closed and moved away.
A resident of the area said that “Shops outside Nawaday Cinema in Oak Pon Hsate road, Ward 5, Mayangone township are also being illegally confiscated. The director of the Department of Information and Public Relations, Ye Lin Myint, said that if the land cannot be confiscated now, it will never be confiscated again and try to confiscate forcibly. Although it is instructed to issue relocation compensation to all the shops, but only those related to them were given relocation expenses. Most can’t. We have to move the people because they caused trouble in various ways to prevent them from moving.”
People have been buying and renting these shops for the past 23 years, and there are more than 70 people living in these shops. At present, all these shops have been closed by the Department of Information and Public Relations under the Terrorist War Council, and signs have been put up saying that they belong to the department.
