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Civil servants replaced by inexperience army officers
Sat 20 Sep 2008,
IMNA
At least twenty civil servants in two departments have dismissed and replaced by SPDC army officers.
A civil said that about ten civil servants worked for the Ministry of Industry No. 1. “I would like to stop my work and seek job at Singapore because they just order us around in the army style without knowing about work in the field,” said the civil servant.
He said that the army officers have been known to order lower civil servants to stand in a row, and then slap them in the faces.
The officers also get more opportunities than civilian staff, such as higher starting positions, vehicles and salaries from both the civilian department and the army. An army captain can earn as much as 130,000 kyat, while a high school principle in Mon state says that civil department officers earn much less.
One of the officers in the Ministry of Industry No. 1 is reported to have obtained one hundred gallons of gasoline from the army, while also accepting gasoline from the Ministry of Industry No. 1.
Ten army officers also took jobs at the Rangoon railway station, administered by the Department of Transport. According to a DOT civil servant, the officers now control the sale of tickets at the station.
The replacement of civil servants with army officers has already occurred in Mon State. The officers have been reported to treat lower ranking servants poorly, and an eyewitness recounted seeing the officers shouting at other servants to an IMNA reporter.
A Moulmein resident said Major Aung Tin, from Information Battalion No. 515, also controls the phone lines in Mon and Karen States, as well as Tenasserim Division.
“It is very difficult for civilian staff because the officers don’t know about the departments the enter,” a former servant from Customs Department said. “But the civilian staff still has to obey the orders of the army officers.”
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