Incident Report: Villager shot and killed in Pa?an District, October 2011 [News Bulletin]

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Dec 1st, 2011 The following report was written by a villager trained by KHRG to document human rights abuses, and details an incident that occurred on October 29th 2011 in P--- village, during which soldiers from Tatmadaw IB #230 fired small arms at three civilians as they fled their house in P--- village, and two KNLA soldiers who had been cooking food in the house. Saw A---, a 36-year-old married farmer who had returned to P--- to help his wife?s family harvest paddy, was shot in the head and killed as the group ran away from the house The villager who wrote this report visited P--- village two weeks after the incident occurred to document the incident: the villager took the 32 photographs included in this report; spoke with Saw A---?s brother-in-law and mother-in-law, who were the other two civilians who fled the IB #230 soldiers and witnessed Saw A---?s death; and spoke with another P--- resident who heard the gunfire and witnessed the soldiers entering the house after the group fled. The full transcript of a recorded audio interview with Saw A---?s brother-in-law is available in the bulletin "Pa?an Interview: Saw C---, November 2011" published by KHRG on December 1st 2011.

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Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)

Date of Publication: 

2011-12-01

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2012-01-19

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English

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