Narinjara News
The Deputy Home Minster of Burma's military government, Brig-Gen Phone Swe visited the western border town of Maungdaw in Arakan State on Sunday to organize people to cast "yes" votes in the referendum, said a government official who refused to be named.
He said, "He came to Maungdaw yesterday and held a meeting with many members from local village administrative councils at Thri Radana hall in Maungdaw for the upcoming referendum."
The meeting began at 8:30 am and finished at 11:00 am, with about 750 people, including many village chairmen and clerks in attendance. The deputy minister asked the village chairmen during the meeting if there were any villages or people in Maungdaw Township who were against the referendum.
"All village chairmen replied to him that there were no villages or people against the referendum when he asked us if there were," said the official.
At the meeting, Deputy Home Minister Phone Swe also told the village chairmen that he is ready to go to the villages to organize people if any village has a plan to oppose the referendum.
The visit of the deputy home minister to Maungdaw was conducted by high authorities after information has been spreading that Arakanese people will be boycotting the referendum by refusing to go to the polls.
The Deputy Home Minister will reportedly visit another two towns in Buthidaung and Rathidaung to organize people for referendum after leaving Maungdaw.
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