Mon villagers forced to vote for the USDP

A citizen in Mon State reported: "the entire village assembled and every villager was compelled to vote. There were fairly high number of voters. Police and soldiers involved in directing villagers to vote and everyone participated in voting and voted for lion party (USDP) as they were afraid. I don't think civilians like the election. I don't like it either. I don't expect anything out of the election."

မဲေပးပြဲမက်င္းပခင္မွာ တစ္ရြာလံုးအစည္းအေ၀းျပီး မဲထည့္ခုိင္းေၾကာင္း မဲမထည့္မေနရေၾကာင္း၊ မဲလာထည့္တဲ့လူေတြမ်ားျပားေၾကာင္း၊ မဲသြားထည့္ဖုိ႔ စစ္တပ္နွင့္ရဲေတြက လာေျပာၾကားေၾကာင္း၊ ေၾကာက္ကာ တစ္ရြာလံုးသြားထည့္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ျခေသၤ့ပါတီကုိထည့္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေၾကာက္လုိ႔ ထည့္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဒီေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကုိ ျပည္သူေတြကသေဘာက်မဲ့ပံုမရိွေၾကာင္း မိမိအေနျဖင့္လည္း သေဘာမက်ေၾကာင္း ဤေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအေပၚ မည္သည့္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္မွမရိွေၾကာင္း မြန္ျပည္နယ္မွ ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးက ျပန္လည္ေျပာျပခဲ့သည္။