Local authorities under Burma's ruling junta have compromised over students' accommodation for the Distant University Education under Monyein University in Burma's northern Kachin State, student sources said.
During the month-long special classes at the Monyein University before examinations, all students have been restricted to staying in guesthouses, relative's houses and school boarding in the Monyein township, without officially identifying themselves as guests to the junta's Administrative Offices (Ya-Ya-Ka) under Monyein Township Administrative Office (Ma-Ya-Ka), earlier this month, school sources said.
According to Monyein residents, people in Monyein have also been warned against denying any relative student guests, whether they are near or far from the township by the Township Administrative Office through quarters and villages Administrative Offices.
Meanwhile, the junta's authorities of Monyein have warned the students, who live in rented houses and boarders in the township without any reliable document related to residential permit, that action would be taken against them, added students' sources.
The restriction came soon after small problems started between some drunken students and the local policemen earlier this month, locals said.
Shadang Naw Awng, a student leader of the Kachin Students Union (AKSU), an underground student organization based in Kachin State said, "The junta seems to have cut all relations between Monyein students and students from outside the township. The junta is worried over the students and wants to prevent any possible students' demonstration in the township by Monyein University students."
AKSU had pasted a series of anti-junta posters in the main townships in Kachin State beginning last year, before the Buddhist monk-led protests against Burma's ruling junta in September.
Currently, over 2,000 students of Distant University Education in Monyein district including Phakant and Mogaung townships are attending special classes in Monyein University before their examinations, according to local sources.
Meanwhile, the young travellers in Monyein Township from outside the township are being checked day and night by township authorities of the junta, a young traveller, who was checked by the authorities of Monyein told KNG today.
The Monyein authorities under Burma's ruling junta do not allow visiting and distant university education students from other parts of Burma into Monyein, a resident of Myitkyina added.
