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KNU Report March 12



Human Rights Violations Update  
March 12,1997

KNU No. 3 Brigade   Naung Lin Bin District

On February 22,1997 at 9 am, SLORC Light Infantry Battalion 350 entered
Shwegyin township, Meh Yeh Hta village, captured an old vilager, Saw Ta Lay,
age 80 and took him away with them. On the way, when this old villager could
no longer walk, they stoned him to death.

KNU No. 7 Brigade Area   Paan District

The SLORC troops in the area issued and order that all the villages at the
foot of Dawna Mountain must be relocated to a designated place. If the
villagers were still seen in the villages or seen hiding in the jungle after
the dead line of 6th March, they would be shot to death. There is not
sufficient water for the villagers at the designated place let alone food.
Now these villagers are living under the trees exposed to the elements. Their
cattle, pigs and poultry are all appropriated by the SLORC soldiers. The
young girls are violated and then killed .
These villagers are in great fear and misery. Their situation is totally
veiled from the outside world. 

When some KNU soldiers met a group of elderly women fleeing from the SLORC
soldiers, they wailed and related their sad experiences, " Isn't there anyone
to deliver us from our miserable life? It would be better for us to die than
go on living this kind of existence." The KNU soldiers could accomplish very
little for the security of these villagers because they are greatly
outnumbered.

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