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Two hundred students beat up traffic police

IMNA
February 9, 2006

About 200 Moulmein University students got together and went on the rampage beating up traffic policeman in the city yesterday after the police seized four motorcycles. The Chief Professor of the university dealt with the situation and the traffic police gave the students back their motorcycles, a student said.

Students of the Computer College in Set-Hmu-Zone and Moulmein University joined hands and scoured the whole town in search of traffic policemen. The students beat up some traffic policemen and hurled stones at the police checkpoints around midday yesterday.

The students also destroyed all the posters regarding traffic rules for motorbikes in the city and traffic checkpoints in the Zaykyo quarter. Students then tried to beat up policemen in Die-Won-Kwin near the city market.

“We will not abide by what the police has to say. We have been cautioning them for a long time,” a student said.

The trouble began when the traffic policemen threw a stick at two girl students who tried to avoid checking. The girls fell off the motorbike. Both girls were brought to hospital for treatment and their motorbike was seized.

In the second incident, the traffic police seized four motorcycles from students for use in Pyinmana, the new capital in Mandalay division.

In 2003, students had clashed with the traffic police when they seized their unlicensed motorbikes. In 1996 Moulmein University students had demonstrated for political change and demanded their rights.