Emeute de l’électricité à Kyaukpadaung – 25 février 2013

Burmese Police Clash with Villagers in Electricity Dispute

rfa.org 2013-02-25

Police clashed at the weekend with residents after electricity supply to a village in central Burma was cut off allegedly as punishment for voting for the opposition in elections, according to residents.

Four people were hospitalized and the head of an area monastery, who appeared to have led the protests in Hnitkyarkhwe village near Kyaukpadaung in Burma’s Mandalay region, was arrested, a local monk told RFA’s Burmese Service.

“The clashes erupted after the electricity line that serves the village was cut off in some areas,” he said.

Local officials of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) were behind the power supply disruption because of the party’s loss to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in the April 2012 by-elections, the monk said.
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