NAYPYITAW, 21 August 2021, (TON): The military council is trying to fill 200 positions in the country’s internal revenue department by seeking out family members of police officers and military personnel.

The vacancies are due to the general strike carried out by civil servants in accordance with the anti-coup Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), which aims to topple the coup regime.

State-run newspapers announced that they were accepting open applications for the assistant supervisor positions within the department, which is under the Ministry of Planning and Finance at the headquarters in Naypyitaw and in the tax offices in Yangon.

However, an internal letter seen by media sources revealed that the department office sent orders to tax office staff to spread the word about the vacancies so that adult children of non-striking employees, police officers and military personnel could apply.

The move indicates that the coup regime is finding it difficult to replace the positions left empty by the striking civil servants.

A staff member from the department who is on strike, said “they’re replacing the staff members taking part in the CDM with the families of police and military personnel. They’re not going to let outsiders in.”