Rail workers leave their homes with whatever they can fit into plastic bin bags and carry on March 10, after soldiers and police evicted them for joining the Civil Disobedience Movement against the military government. (Frontier)
Rail workers leave their homes with whatever they can fit into plastic bin bags and carry on March 10, after soldiers and police evicted them for joining the Civil Disobedience Movement against the military government. (Frontier)

Police, soldiers forcibly evict more than 1,000 rail workers and their families

The eviction ended an early-morning raid in Yangon on staff housing where most workers had joined the Civil Disobedience Movement, and who now say they have nowhere to go.

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