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Submitted by moiuser on 7 October 2024

THE 2024 enumeration process for the population and household census began on 1 October, conducted by audit and enumeration teams across various regions and states, including the Nay Pyi Taw Council Area. This process aims to gather data that will help formulate and implement policies and projects to ensure balanced development in the social, economic, and management sectors based on the population figures obtained from the census.

In doing so, people are participating in the census process by providing accurate and complete information. Terrorists who oppose the census have been using various methods to disrupt and prevent individuals from engaging in the process.

PDF terrorists abducted seven auditors and enumerators living in Lower Yebyu Village, Launglon Township, Taninthayi Region yesterday evening at their homes after they returned from their enumeration work in Dawei Township. They are Daw May Mie Moe, 27, daughter of U Kyaw Lin, and Daw Ohnmar Tun, 48, daughter of U Aung Tun, who are teachers from Basic Education Post-Primary School (Gaw-inn), Daw Khin Aye Set, 47, daughter of U Khin Lone, Daw Yin Yin Soe, 60, daughter of U Soe Myint and Daw Mya Aye, 56, daughter of U Aung Kyin who are teachers at Basic Education High School (Yebyu), Daw Phyu Phyu Htwe, 44, daughter of U Khin Than, Headmastress of BEPS (Cadek Ngehtein), and Daw Thida, 57, daughter of U Khin Than, the clerk of the Yebyu Village-tract Administration Office.

Similarly, on the afternoon of 4 October, terrorists arrested U Kam Lian Thang (aka) U Kup Sawon, 65, a town elder who was assisting with census collection activities in Tiddim Township, Chin State, as he was on his way to an agricultural farm near Lamzan Village, where he lives.

As the census is the only planning effort capable of obtaining important socio-economic information for national development projects and policies, it is a national duty to ensure its successful implementation. The public is protesting against the terrorists preventing and harassing the auditors and enumerators involved in the census, and security forces are increasing necessary security measures.

— MNA/TH

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