爱华网繁霜按：缅甸政府头脑怪戾、举止乖张，善待权贵剥夺人民，阶级矛盾将日趋激烈。
超过20万名石油工人、钻井工人、摊贩和原油商人接到通知，被要求在9月16日前离开马圭省Minhla镇的HtanGaing油田。其中摊贩被要求14日前离开。
这封没有签名的通知是在9月9日发布的，称刑法第144条适用此油田，禁止该地区5人以上的集会。又称，石油是国家拥有的自然资源，政府未授权任何个人开采。
9月15日联系马圭省政府秘书请他发表意见，未果。
最初HtanGaing属于27个农民。2007年政府征占了71英亩农田，将其授予私人公司开采原油。将刑法第144条施行于该地区便是始于那时。
一直帮助那些农民的活动家ThanHtike说，今年4月29日，当局在地下石油储藏抽空之后将这块土地归还给了前所有者。
此后，有的农民在自己的土地上钻井有的卖掉了土地。这些农民呼吁总统和相关部长们允许他们在油田合法工作。ThanHtike补充道。
油井钻探工TunMyint说，这一驱逐令不是从正常渠道从政府当局得到的。
“通知没有提及签发的任何政府部门，只是一人转一人地流传。”他说。
当地石油工人说，从9月10日起，已有百多名警察部署到了油田区，加强保安。
帮助HtanGaing油田农民和工人的志愿者告知本社，HtanGaing地区土地贫瘠不适于农耕，20多万工人靠油田维持生计，希望取消驱逐令。
200000 workers expelled from HtanGaing oil-field
Monday, 16 September 2013 14:27 MizzimaNews -Mizzima News
Over 200000 oil well workers,oil well drilling workers, vendors and crude oil traders receivednotice letters to leave the Htan Gaing oilfield in Minhla Township,Magwe Region by September 16. The vendors have been told to leavethe oilfield by September 14.
The unsigned notice issued onSeptember 9 states that Section 144 of the Criminal Procedural Code(CrPC) has been imposed around the oilfield, banning assembly ofmore than five people in the area. It further states that crude oilis a natural resource owned by the state and no one is authorizedby the government to extract it.
The Secretary of Magwe Regiongovernment was contacted on September 15 for comments but wasunreachable.
The Htan Gaing oilfield areawas previously owned by 27 farmers. In 2007, the government seized71 acres of farmlands and gave it to private companies to extractcrude oil. Section 144 of CrPC was imposed in the area at that timetoo.
Than Htike, an activist whohas been helping the farmers said that the authorities gave theseland back to their previous owners on April 29 after undergroundcrude oil deposits was exhausted.
Thereafter, some of thefarmers drilled wells in their property and some sold their land.The farmers had appealed to the President and ministries concernedto let them work in the oilfields officially, Than Htikeadded.
Oil well drilling worker TunMyint said that the eviction order was not received through properchannel or from an authority.
“The letter does notmention any governmental department as issuing authority. It washanded over from one person to another,” he said.
Local oil workers said thatmore than 100 policemen had been deployed in the oil field areasince September 10 and security has been beefedup.
Volunteers helping thefarmers and workers in Htan Gaing oilfield told Mizzima that over200000 workers rely on the oilfield for livelihood and wanted theeviction order revoked, since the Htan Gaing area has been renderedbarren and unsuitable for farming crops.
