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Description: "SAC and PNO militia troops shot and killed a civilian driver and injured a farmer near the Tigyit coal mine in Pinlaung township, southern Shan State, on January 7, 2023. On January 3, there was fighting between SAC troops and local PDF forces near Long Karn village tract, west of Samka Lake, Nyaungshwe township, southern Shan State. On January 7, about 50 regime troops, including local PNO militia, set up a checkpoint on the main Aung Pan-Tigyit-Pinlaung road, giving the reason that the PDF were active in that area. That evening at about 8 pm, the regime forces began indiscriminately firing their weapons, including artillery, for about 30 minutes towards Payaphyu village, about three miles from Tigyit village. One of the bullets hit a 40-year-old farmer returning home to Nan Sawng village after irrigating his farmland east of the village. Sai Aye (not his real name) was hit and injured in his leg. SAC soldiers took him to Pinlaung hospital for treatment. Soon afterwards, at around 9 pm, Khun Tun (not his real name) a 35-year-old villager from Kin Moon Chong village, Muay Pin village tract, Pinlaung township, was driving his car along the Aung Pan-Tigyit-Pinlaung road. He was driving fast and braked suddenly to stop at the newly erected SAC checkpoint. The troops then opened fire at his car, hitting him in the stomach and killing him instantly. This was witnessed by a local villager who had been forced by the PNO to guide their troops. His corpse was not transferred to his family, but was cremated by the troops at 2 pm on January 8 at Pinlaung cemetery. The SAC and PNO militia troops are continuing to block the Aung Pan-Tigyit-Pinlaung road. The SAC troops are from Kalaw-based LIB 7 and Tigyit-based LIB 511 and LIB 512..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2023-01-18
Date of entry/update: 2023-01-18
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Description: "Over 100 houses burned, 4,000 displaced by SAC scorched earth operation east of Moebye Lake, southern Shan State Since mid-May 2022, SAC forces have carried out a scorched earth campaign along the eastern edge of Moebye Lake, in Pekhon (Paikhun) township, southern Shan State, burning down over 100 houses and displacing over 4,000 people from Loi Pao village tract in response to expanded PDF attacks, On May 12, PDF forces from Pekhon attacked a SAC checkpoint (jointly manned by its milita ally the Pa-O National Organisation) at Htiri village in southern Nyaungshwe township, on the main road from Nyaungshwe to Moebye. SAC responded by launching a clearance operation south along this road, deploying LIB 422 and PNO troops into Loi Pao village tract in Pekhon township, east of Moebye Lake. Clashes erupted with local PDF forces, and on May 15 the SAC launched airstrikes over the area. The over 4,000 inhabitants of Loi Pao tract fled in different directions, including north to Hsihseng, Pinlaung and Taunggyi, and south to Loikaw (Karenni State) and Thailand. On May 16, fighting broke out between the SAC and PDF troops at Se Mee Law village, at the southeast end of the lake, and further reinforcements from ID 66 were deployed along the Moebye-Nyaungshwe road, including into Loi Pao tract. On May 16 at 4 pm, SAC troops began torching the village of Hsawng Nam Kay in Loi Pao tract, even though there was no fighting there. The troops doused the houses with petrol before setting fire to them. By the morning, over 40 houses in the village had been burned down. On May 17, at 11 pm, the SAC troops stationed in Loi Pao tract fired artillery shells indiscriminately at Loi Pan Sone village on an island in the Moebye Lake. The shells damaged Loi Pan Sone temple, school, and some houses. The shells also injured two villagers sheltering at the temple. On May 20, after clashes between SAC and PDF forces in Nam Maw Long village, the SAC troops began torching houses in the village. However, due to heavy rain that evening, only three houses were burned. The same night, the SAC troops torched houses in two nearby villages: Loi Pao and Nam Maw Soam. At least 15 houses were burned down. On May 26, the SAC troops based on Loi Mong Ku Hill, east of Loi Pao tract, came down to Mark Khur Kham village and began setting fire to villagers’ houses at 7pm. Over 20 houses were burned down. On June 3, the SAC troops went to Hla Hei village and set fire to over 20 houses. During this time, SAC troops also torched several houses in Koong Mark Lang village. On June 21, SAC troops camped in Nam Maw Long village looted a motorcycle, fertilizer, and ploughing machine from the village, and torched three houses. On June 22, at around 6 pm, the SAC troops set fire to two houses in Loi Pao village. SAC troops remain camped in Loi Pao tract, so villagers dare not return home. The troops are staying in villagers’ houses, which they have ransacked as well as looted. They have also laid land mines around the villages and shot indiscriminately from Loi Mong Ku hill at civilians passing along the main road, so few dare use the road. Most of the inhabitants of Loi Pao tract are Shan, who earn a livelihood from growing rice, corn and avocado, but have been unable to cultivate their fields this year.....ရှမ်းပြည်တောင်ပိုင်း၊မိုးဗြဲအင်းအရှေ့ဘက်ကမ်းတွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်၏ မြေလှန်ဖျက်ဆီးသည့် စစ်ဆင်ရေးကြောင့် နေအိမ်အလုံး၁၀၀ကျော်မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခံရပြီး ပြည်သူ၄၀၀၀ခန့် ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနစ် မေလလယ်ပိုင်းမှစတင်ကာ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် ကျယ်ပြန့်လာသော ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ် ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့၀င်များ၏ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကိုတုန့်ပြန်ရန်အတွက် ရှမ်းပြည်တောင်ပိုင်းဖယ်ခုံမြို့နယ် မိုးဗြဲအင်းအရှေ့ ဘက်ခြမ်းတွင် မြေလှန်ဖျက်ဆီးသည့် စစ်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှုများကိုပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ရာ နေအိမ်အလုံးတစ်ရာကျော်ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရပြီး လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာအုပ်စုမှ ပြည်သူ ၄၀၀၀ ကျော်သည် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာကာထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ရသည်။ မေလ ၁၂ ရက်တွင် ဖယ်ခုံမြို့ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့မှ ညောင်ရွှေမြို့တောင်ဘက် မိုးဗြဲညောင်ရွှေလမ်း မကြီး ပေါ်ရှိ စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့် ပအို၀့်ပြည်သူ့စစ် PNO တို့ပူးတွဲစခန်းချသည့် ထီရီကျေးရွာ ကင်းစခန်းကို ၀င်ရောက်တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်မှ အထက်ပါတိုက်ခိုက်မှုကိုတုန့်ပြန်သည့်အနေဖြင့် အဆိုပါလမ်းကြီးတောင်ဘက်အတိုင်း နယ်မြေ ရှင်းလင်းမှုစစ်ဆင်ရေးကို ခမရ ၄၂၂ တပ်နှင့် PNO တပ်များအား ဖယ်ခုံမြို့ မိုးဗြဲအင်းအရှေ့ဘက်ခြမ်းရှိ လွယ်ပေါ ကျေးရွာအုပ်စုအတွင်းသို့ တပ်ဖြန့်ကာ စတင်ခဲ့သည်။နယ်မြေခံ ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်များနှင့် တိုက်ပွဲများ ဖြစ်ပွားခဲပြီး မေလ ၁၅ရက်နေ့တွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သည် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုကိုလည်းပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ရာ လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာအုပ်စုမှဒေသခံပြည်သူ ၄၀၀၀ ကျော်သည် နေရာအနှံ့ပြားသို့ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ ရသည်။ ထိုသို့တိမ်း ရှောင်ရာတွင်မြောက်ဘက်ရှိဆီဆိုင်၊ပင်လောင်းနှင့်တောင်ကြီးမြို့များသို့၄င်း တောင်ဘက်ရှိ ကရင်နီပြည် လွိုင်ကော်နှင့် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံသို့၄င်း ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ရသည်။ မေလ၁၆ရက်နေ့တွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သား များနှင့်ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေး တပ်ဖွဲ့ ၀င် များသည် အင်းအရှေ့တောင် ဘက်ခြမ်းရှိ ဆီမီးလော့ကျေးရွာ အနီးတွင်တိုက်ပွဲဖြစ် ပွားခဲ့ပြီး နောက် တပ်မ၆၆မှ စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်သားများသည် လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာအပါအ၀င် မိုးဗြဲ-ညောင်ရွှေလမ်းတစ်လျောက် တပ်များဖြန့်ကျက်ကာအင် အားဖြည့်လာခဲ့သည်။ မေလ ၁၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် ဆောင်နန်းခဲကျေး ရွာတွင် မည်သည့်တိုက်ပွဲမှဖြစ်ပွားခြင်းမရှိသော်လည်း စစ်ကောင်စီတပ် သား များသည် ညနေ ၄နာရီခွဲမှစတင်ကာ လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာအုပ်စု ဆောင်နန်းခဲ ကျေးရွာတစ်ရွာ လုံးကိုမီးရှို့ ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ကြသည်။ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် နေအိမ်များကို ဓာတ်ဆီဖြင့်လောင်း ကာမီးရှို့ခဲ့ကြခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ နောက်တစ်နေ့မနက်တွင် ကျေးရွာအတွင်းရှိနေအိမ် ၄၀ ကျော်သည်မီး လောင်ပျက်စီးသွားခဲ့သည်။ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနစ် မေလ ၁၇ ရက်နေ့ည ၁၁ နာရီ ၀န်းကျင်တွင် လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာအုပ်စုတွင်နေရာယူထားသော စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် မည်သည့်တိုက်ပွဲမှ ဖြစ်ပွားခြင်းမရှိဘဲ မိုးဗြဲအင်းအလယ်တွင်ရှိသောလွယ်ပန်းစုံ (ရေလယ်ကျွန်း)ရွာကိုလက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့် ရမ်းသန်းပစ်ခတ်ခဲ့သည်။ ထိုသို့ပစ်ခတ်မှုကြောင့်လွယ်ပန်းစုံဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်းတွင် တိမ်းရှောင်နေသာ ပြည်သူ ၂ ဦး လက်နက်ထိမှန်ကာဒဏ်ရာရှိခဲ့ပြီး စာသင်ကျောင်း၊ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်းနှင့် လူနေအိမ်အချို့ပျက်စီးခဲ့သည်။ မေလ ၂၀ ရက်နေ့တွင် ဖယ်ခုံမြို့နယ်အတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်နှင့် ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များ တိုက်ပွဲများ ပြင်းထန်စွာဆက်လက်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပြီးနောက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာအုပ်စု နန်းပေါ်လုံကျေးရွာကို ညနေ၆နာရီခန့်မှစတင်၍ မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ကြသည်။မိုးများသည်းထန် စွာရွာသွန်းလာသဖြင့် နေအိမ် ၃ လုံးသာ မီးကူးစက်ခဲ့ပြီးပျက်စီးခဲ့သည်။ ထိုညပိုင်း၌ပင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် နန်းပေါ်လုံကျေးရွာနှင့်ထိစပ်လျက်ရှိသော လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာနှင့် နန်းဆွန့် ကျေးရွာရှိနေအိမ်များကို ထပ်မံမီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ကြရာ နေအိမ် ၁၅ လုံးထက်မနည်း မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည်။ မေလ ၂၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် လွယ်ပေါကျးရွာအုပ်စု အရှေ့ဘက်ရှိ လွယ်မကူးတောင်တွင် စခန်းချထားသော စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်သားများသည် တောင်ပေါ်မှဆင်းလာကာ မခေခမ်းကျေးရွာမှ နေအိမ်များကို ည၇နာရီမှစ၍ မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ရာ အိမ်ခြေ ၂၀ ကျော်မီးလောင်ပျက်စီးခဲ့ရသည်။ ဇွန်လ၃ရက်နေ့တွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် လဟယ်ကျေးရွာသို့ ရောက်ရှိလာကာ လဟယ်ကျေးရွာရှိ နေအိမ်အလုံး၂၀ကိုမီးရှို့ခဲ့သည်။တစ်ချိန်တည်းမှာပင် ပိန္နဲကုန်းကျေးရွာအုပ်စုမှ နေအိမ်အများအပြားသည်လည်း မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည်။ ဇွန်လ ၂၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် နန်းပေါ်လုံကျေးရွာတွင် စခန်းချနေထိုင်သော စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်သားများသည် နန်းပေါ်လုံ ကျေး ရွာအတွင်းရှိ နေအိမ်၃လုံးမှဆိုင်ကယ်၊ ဓာတ်မြေသြဇာနှင့်ထွန်စက်များကို လုယက်ခိုးယူပြီးနောက် နေအိမ်များကိုမီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ကြသည်။ ဇွန်လ ၂၂ ရက်နေ့ ည၆နာရီ၀န်းကျင်တွင်လည်း စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာရှိ နေအိမ် ၂လုံးကို မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ကြသည်။ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် လွယ်ပေါကျေး ရွာအုပ်စုအတွင်း ဆက်လက်စခန်းချနေထိုင် လျက် ရှိရာဒေသခံ ပြည်သူများအနေဖြင့်အိမ်ပြန်ရန် ကြောက်ရွံ့နေကြသည်။ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားများသည် ၄င်းတို့ မွှေနှောက် လုယက်ထား သော နေအိမ်များတွင်စခန်းချနေထိုင်ကြပြီးကျေးရွာပတ် လည်တွင်မြေမြုပ်မိုင်းများ ထောင်ထားခြင်း ၊လွယ်မကူး တောင်ပေါ်မှနေ၍လမ်းမကြီး ပေါ်တွင် သွား လာသော ပြည်သူများကိုရမ်းသန်း ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်းများ ပြုလုပ်ကြသဖြင့်လမ်းမကြီးကို အသုံးပြုရန် ကြောက်ရွံ့နေကြသည်။ လွယ်ပေါကျေးရွာအုပ်စုအတွင်း နေထိုင်ကြသူအများစုမှာ ရှမ်းလူမျိုးများဖြစ်ပြီး ၄င်းတို့အသက်မွေး ၀မ်းကျောင်းအတွက် ဆန်၊ပြောင်းနှင့်ထောပတ် တို့ကိုစိုက်ပျိုး ရာ ယခုနစ်တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် ၄င်းတို့၏ လယ်ယာလုပ်ငန်း များကိုလုပ်ကိုင်နိုင်ခြင်းမရှိပါ။..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2022-07-27
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Description: "Namkham villagers suffer from year-long electricity cut by China due to border dispute Residents of Nawng Kham village in Namkham township, northern Shan State, have been suffering from electricity shortage since China cut off their power supply in July 2021 over a border demarcation dispute. Nawng Kham village, comprising 161 households, lies on the northern bank of the Mao (Shweli) river close to the Chinese border. Although Nawng Kham is only two kilometers north of Namkham town, there are no connecting power lines across the Mao/Shweli river, so Nawng Kham villagers have relied for years on electricity from the nearby village of Nawng Hsawng in China. In October 2020, Chinese authorities began building a double layer of fencing, 15 to 20 meters apart, along the border close to Nawng Kham, citing the need to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The fencing, 7 meters high on the China side and 5 meters high on the Burma side, cut through fields straddling the border, causing a loss of income for some farmers. Then, without warning, on July 10, 2021, workers from China began building a new layer of fencing which encroached into the fields of Nawng Kham villagers. Nawng Kham residents came out and stopped them, and called the Namkham township administrator and land survey department officials to the site. They also called officials from the China side, but the Chinese officials did not appear. On July 18, 2021, at 6 am, about 50 workers from China again returned to the same place, and used a backhoe to begin digging holes for the fence posts. Again, villagers from Nawng Kham went to stop them, forcing the Chinese workers to abandon their backhoe and digging tools and retreat to the China side. At that time, three Chinese military trucks were patrolling on the other side of the border. On the same day, villagers again called the Namkham township authorities to come and solve the dispute with the Chinese authorities, saying they did not want to lose their land. It was then agreed by both sides to stop building the new fencing. The Chinese workers filled in the holes already dug and took back their digging equipment. Two days later, on July 20, 2021, at 10 am, the Chinese electricity supply to Nawng Kham was suddenly cut off from Nawng Hsawng village. The villagers appealed to the Chinese electricity officials in Ruili, who said they had instructed the villagers of Nawng Hsawng to reconnect the electricity, but the power was not reconnected for three months. During this time, the Nawng Kham villagers had to buy diesel generators and solar panels for their electricity. Poorer families had to rely on candles. On October 10, 2021, the Chinese electricity authorities fined Nawng Hsawng village 7,000 yuan for failing to provide electricity to Nawng Kham, and the power was reconnected that evening. However, on October 19, 2021 there was a fire in a house in Nawng Kham, and the electricity was again cut off. The Nawng Kham villagers again contacted the Chinese electricity officials to reconnect the power, but the officials said they were too busy to deal with the issue, and finally did not even answer phone calls from the villagers. The electricity has been cut off until today. The Nawng Kham villagers have been buying electricity from the China side for 20 years. They paid for the installation of Chinese meter boxes in 2002, each meter box costing 560 yuan. They originally paid 1 yuan per unit of electricity, but after the Shweli 1 hydropower project became operational in 2009, the cost was reduced to 0.6 yuan. Local villagers assume the power cut is because of their opposition to China’s attempts to extend the border into their lands. The disputed location is precisely where China is planning a new cross-border road and bridge over the Mao/Shweli River to Namkham, which locals fear may cause further loss of land. Given that China is already gaining significant benefits from the Shweli 1 hydropower project in Namkham, it is regrettable that Chinese authorities are withholding electricity from local Namkham residents for household use. The Shweli 1 project is a joint venture between China’s Yunnan United Power Development Co. Ltd. and Burma’s Ministry of Electric Power, built under a 40-year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement. Out of the project’s installed capacity of 600 megawatts, 400 MW is for use in Burma, while 200 MW is for export to China. However, a large portion of the hydropower from Shweli 1 is sent directly via a high voltage transmission line to the Tagaung Taung nickel processing plant near Tigyaing in Sagaing, operated by China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group. Nawng Kham residents have already suffered impacts from other Chinese investment projects, including China National Petroleum Corporation’s transnational oil and gas pipelines, which pass only 200 meters west of their village. In 2010, when the pipelines started being laid, local farmers received unsatisfactory compensation for the digging up of their fields, while suffering from increased Burma Army security and laying of land mines. In 2011, a farmer called Loong Aung Nyunt from Aung Myat Thar ward in Namkham town stepped on a land mine in his field near where the gas pipeline was being laid, and was seriously injured. Villagers living near the pipelines remain in fear of possible leakage or explosion. Nawng Kham residents were also impacted by the construction of the Longjiang hydropower dam on the Mao/Shweli river in Yunnan province in 2010. Thousands of downstream villagers in northern Shan State have faced livelihood disruption due to sudden fluctuations in the river level, causing grounding of ferry boats and flooding of farmland. The dam’s blockage of sediment has also accelerated river bank erosion, a problem worsened by Chinese-sponsored sand mining, including next to Nawng Kham. Most of the sand is exported for construction projects inside China, causing problems of dust pollution during transport..."
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2022-07-05
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Description: "Two Shan youth activists forced by SAC troops to transport them in their truck on the Lashio-Muse highway were killed in a roadside ambush by TNLA troops on May 4, 2022. That day, at about 5 pm, the two youth, Sai Jarm Hla (aged 32) and Sai Hseng Harn (aged 29), were driving a pick-up truck on their way from Kutkhai to Muse, when they were stopped by 15 Burma Army troops from Infantry Division (ID) 99 at Nampaw bridge, about 16 miles from Muse. The troops forced the youth to transport them in the back of their truck. At about 5.20 pm, as they were approaching Maw Tawng village, Mong Yu tract, their truck was suddenly shelled by TNLA troops positioned on a hill top. Shrapnel hit Sai Jarm Hla’s chest, leg and hands, while Sai Hseng Harn was hit in his abdomen, head and wrist. Their truck overturned at the side of the road. At least ten Burma Army troops were also killed in the attack. One of the youth’s friends was driving behind them in another car, and arrived at the scene after the attack. He saw Sai Jarm Hla’s truck overturned by the road, and many SAC soldiers around the wreckage. He stopped his car and tried to get out and see what had happened, but some SAC troops who had arrived in another truck forced him to drive on. He then drove to the 105 Mile village, where he called a local welfare group to go and pick up his friends and take them to hospital. When the welfare group arrived by car at the site of the attack, the Burma Army troops refused to let them take the bodies. They then went back to Muse town and called more welfare group vehicles to come to the incident site. The bodies were allowed to be taken away at about 7:30 pm. The bodies were kept at Se Oo, Muse township, and were cremated in the afternoon of May 5, 2022. The deceased youth were both from Kyaukme. Sai Jarm Hla was a leading member of the Tai Youth Network (TYN) and belonged to the secretary team of the Committee for Shan State Unity (CSSU). Sai Hseng Harn assisted with many social welfare activities for his community..."
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2022-05-09
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Description: "Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation October 12, 2021 Local farmers oppose Ngwe Yi Pale’s planned coal mining expansion along Pang River in Tangyan, northern Shan State Local farmers are opposing plans by the Mandalay-based Ngwe Yi Pale conglomerate and regime authorities to expand their damaging coal mining operations along the Pang River in Na Hook village tract, Tangyan township, northern Shan State. The new mining area spans about 850 acres of farmlands on both sides of the Pang River, a mile west of the existing coal mine at Tak Liet, where the entire village has been forced to move due to underground excavation. Locals are resisting the expansion not only because of direct farmland loss, but also fears of further damage to the ecology of the Pang River, from pollution and planned mining beneath the riverbed. 14 villages in the area, with over 3,000 residents, rely on the Pang River for their farming livelihoods, growing thousands of acres of rice, corn and ground nuts. The Pang River is the main tributary of the Salween River in Shan State, and a vital water source for tens of thousands of villagers. The plans for the new mine were revealed on May 7, 2021, when 15 farmers were summoned by the chairman of Na Hook village tract, and asked to sign a letter agreeing to coal exploration on their lands. The farmers, from Wan Long, Wan Kyaung, Wan Kao and Wan Peing Moang, were informed of the meeting the day before, and told to bring their ID cards with them. The chairman, Loong Sai Goam Hsa (a.k.a. Loong Sai Sai Sang Saw), told them that Ngwe Yi Pale company would just be doing test digging in small plots of one square meter, so four farmers agreed to sign, but the rest refused to do so. The chairman then forged the signatures of the remaining eleven villagers, which were collected in the afternoon by Aung Ko Hlat, the Ngwe Yi Pale manager based at Tak Liet. On May 8, the farmers wrote a letter to the SSPP/SSA, the local SNLD office and the Mong Ha militia, complaining about the forging of their signatures and asking for help in stopping the new coal mine. Villagers heard nothing further until September 18, when the 15 farmers were again summoned to meet the village tract chairman. This time the Ngwe Yi Pale manager Aung Ko Hlat was also there. The chairman and the manager again urged the farmers to sign their agreement to mining exploration on their lands. However, the farmers said they would never sign, whatever they were offered. They said they relied on their farmlands for their livelihoods and no amount of money could provide for them throughout their lives like their lands. Since this meeting, youth from many villages in the area have been mobilizing and planning action to oppose the new mining. The Na Hook tract chairman Loong Sai Goam Hsa was appointed after the military coup and is not supported by local villagers. The former chairman Sai Bom had sided with the villagers in opposing the coal mining in 2020, and been threatened by the Mong Ha militia as a result..."
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2021-10-12
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Sub-title: SAC go-ahead for UWSA factories in Tachileik threatens far-reaching pollution - စစ်ကောင်စီက UWSA အား တာချီလိတ်တွင် စက်ရုံတည်ဆောက်ခွင့်ပေးလိုက်ခြင်းသည် ကြီးမားသော ညစ်ညမ်းမှုအဖြစ် ခြိမ်းခြောက်နေ
Description: "Renewed efforts by the United Wa State Army’s Hong Pang conglomerate, backed by the SAC regime, to push through construction of two factories on confiscated land near Tachileik, a kilometer from the Thai border, are being strongly opposed by local communities, who want their farmland returned and fear far-reaching polluting impacts. The factories are planned on 100 acres of land east of Tachileik town, part of a 600- acre plot confiscated from residents of Hong Luek village in 1998-1999 by the Burma Army to set up an industrial zone. The 100 acre-plot was acquired by the Hong Pang company in 2001 for factories which were never built. In 2011, the Hong Luek farmers started appealing to the USDP government for the return of their lands in the industrial zone, which they had continued to farm where possible. Despite ongoing appeals after the NLD government came to power, on September 5, 2019, the Shan State government granted permission to Hong Pang’s Loi Sam Song company to build two factories on their 100 acre plot: a rubber crumb factory and a manganese processing factory. In October 2019, the UWSA company tried to start fencing off the land, but the farmers blocked this. The company sued them for trespass and destruction of property, but did not proceed with construction. During 2020 and early 2021, the farmers continued to block efforts by the company to fence off their farmlands, and to appeal through official channels for land return. On May 6, 2021, three months after the military coup, the company suddenly brought in bulldozers to begin levelling the land. When local farmers and monks again blocked this, police were brought in to protect the company workers, showing that the new regime was backing the UWSA’s plans. During May and June, despite intimidation, locals bravely continued to try and block the company’s construction efforts, but the company was allowed to work at night, during curfew hours, managing to lay cement fencing foundations around the land, which are difficult to remove. Construction has paused since early July, but locals assume this is because of the Covid lockdown. Locals are opposing the factory construction not only due to loss of farmlands, but also fears of pollution, particularly of the Ruak River, which flows past the industrial zone before forming the border with Thailand and flowing into the Mekong River at the Golden Triangle confluence. During the past few years, Thai water authorities have measured dangerous levels of manganese in the Ruak River, from which the Mae Sai water supply is pumped. This is likely due to contamination from existing manganese mines north of Tachileik and manganese ore stockpiles, all in the Ruak River catchment area. Construction of a manganese processing factory directly beside the Ruak River will greatly worsen the existing contamination, which is particularly dangerous for children’s health. Locals also worry about air pollution from both factories, particularly the foul smell of rubber processing, which will permeate the eastern suburbs of Tachileik and adjoining areas of Mae Sai in Thailand, causing adverse health impacts and damaging the tourist industry. Manganese mining and widespread rubber cultivation in Tachileik have already negatively impacted the local environment and livelihoods, for the enrichment of military elites and outside investors. The planned factories are poised to inflict even further damage, on both sides of the border. SHRF strongly supports the brave efforts of the Hong Luek villagers to protect their lands, and urges the SAC and UWSA to immediately cancel the planned factory projects, so that the lands can be returned to their rightful owners. We are inspired by the Mae Sai residents’ successful blocking 20 years ago of Hong Pang’s efforts to build a polluting coal-fired power plant in Tachileik, and hope that Mae Sai communities will mobilize again to join this new struggle to protect our shared Ruak river basin environment..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2021-08-26
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Description: "Shan Human Rights Day marks the day in 1997 when the Burma Army massacred 56 villagers in Kunhing, during a brutal scorched earth campaign in which hundreds were killed, and over 400,000 uprooted in central and southern Shan State. We reiterate our calls for justice for those killed then, and all killed since by the military now terrorizing the entire country. The regime’s scorched earth operations in Shan State over two decades ago were aimed to crush the Shan resistance and seize control of the area’s rich natural resources. Since then, the Burma Army has continuously expanded into Shan State, selling off our lands, forests and rivers to the highest bidder. This process has accelerated since the February 1 coup, and now the generals are pushing through long-held plans to sell off the mighty Salween River, the lifeblood of millions in eastern Burma, to hydropower investors. In May, the regime gave the go-ahead for China’s Hanergy to build the first dam on the Salween, at Kunlong in northern Shan State. 90% of the 1,400 megawatts produced will go to China. Damming the Salween will be a death knell for our beloved river, its fragile ecosystem and the livelihoods of millions relying on it. We urge all foreign investors to immediately cancel their dam plans, or be complicit not only in the regime’s past and present atrocities to secure the dams, but also in the ecocide they will unleash on eastern Burma. .."
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2021-06-16
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Description: "On March 8, 2021, one of the bloodiest days of the military regime’s crackdown on nationwide anti-coup protests, staff of Australian-led Access Resources Asia (ARA) met with local officials in Mong Phyak, eastern Shan State, to push ahead with large-scale gold exploration. ARA’s initial exploration site covers 574 square kilometers, out of its total 1,800 sq. km. concession area in eastern Shan State. This giant gold mining venture is strongly opposed by local communities, due to the devastating environmental and social impacts of existing gold excavation in eastern Shan State, which has gutted mountains and poisoned farmlands and water sources over a wide area, particularly in Tachileik township. In 2017 and 2018, Mong Phyak residents sent petitions to the NLD government to stop the ARA project, but to no avail. On November 26, 2020, ARA was granted a 3-year exploration permit in Mong Phyak by Burma’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation. On January 6, 2021, ARA staff visited Mong Phyak to meet with local officials regarding the opening of a branch office. On January 24, 2021, Mong Phyak locals, including community leaders from 13 village tracts and 3 town wards, wrote a petition to the President and State Counsellor to stop the project signed by 3,883 people. ARA ignored this petition, and is now openly partnering with the new coup regime in pushing through its investment. Long before the coup, SHRF had called for Access Asia Mining Pte Ltd (the Singapore-based parent company of ARA) to end its exploration plans in Eastern Shan State, citing community opposition, the ongoing conflict and heavy Burma Army militarization. In April 2018, SHRF documented the rape and robbery of a 73-year-old woman by a Burma Army soldier in Mong Phyak, and urged Access Asia Mining (AAM) to stop planned mining exploration in the area or risk complicity in the military’s atrocities. In response to SHRF’s concerns, AAM sent a letter on May 14, 2018, to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, stating it had “never engaged with the Tatmadaw to solicit their support or to request security. We state this categorically and unequivocally. AAM has always found the areas of Myanmar that we operate in safe and secure with a welcoming people. We have never felt the need for security and indeed, as stated above, as we have no operations or permanent presence in Shan State there is nothing to be protected.” It is clear that ARA/AAM does indeed now have “operations” in Shan State, and, particularly following the February 1 coup, ARA/AAM is now undeniably partnering with the military authorities in implementing these operations. ARA/AAM is therefore directly complicit in the security forces’ atrocities against unarmed protesters across the country, as well as ongoing atrocities against villagers in ethnic conflict areas. Although registered in Singapore, the management of Access Asia Mining is comprised of Australian nationals, self-advertised as “principals behind several major Australian engineering firms,” who must realize the risks now far outweigh any potential benefits of staying in Burma. SHRF reiterates our call for Access Resources Asia/Access Asia Mining to immediately end their investments in Burma. SHRF urges foreign companies not to invest in Burma until there is peace and a new federal democratic constitution, enabling local communities to protect their lands and resources from predatory exploitation..."
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2021-04-01
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Description: "On February 19 and 23, 2021, the Burma Army forced several thousand ethnic villagers in four townships of eastern Shan State to hold demonstrations in support of the February 1 coup. On February 19, rallies were held in Mong Hsat, Mong Ton, and Mong Phyak townships, where Lahu, Akha and Shan villagers were forced to march in the streets holding Burmese national flags and pictures of General Min Aung Hlaing, and shout pro-Burma Army slogans including, “National stability and peace -- our cause!” and “Expose electoral fraud!” They were also forced to shout “Preserve our national religion and race!” – the slogan of Burmese Buddhist nationalists -- despite their ethnicity, and despite many of the Lahu and Akha villagers being Christian. The Burma Army organised the rallies through their local militia allies in each of the townships. The militia ordered villagers in their areas to gather in the towns at 9 am on February 19. In Mong Hsat, one member of each household in about 20 militia-controlled villages around the town were ordered to join the rally. They were told that if they did not join, they would not be allowed to stay in their villages. Residents of Mong Hsat town were forbidden from coming out into the street during the rally, and were told they would be arrested if they did. About 2,000 villagers joined the rally in Mong Hsat, and were given 2,500-3,000 kyat each. Lunch was also provided. The rally began with a speech by a Lahu member of the Burma Army-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), who said that those who did not support the Burma Army coup were traitors to their country. In Mong Ton, a militia leader in Na Kong Mu ordered villagers to join the rally. Some received 5,000 kyat for joining, and some 20,000 kyat. In a video of the Mong Ton rally released on social media, villagers can be heard telling each other: “Shout loudly!” “If you don’t shout, you will get arrested!” “You’re not here to walk, you’re here to shout!” In Mong Phyak, a militia leader in Mong Yoom organised about 100 Lahu and Akha to join the rally. Those who joined received 6,000 kyat. On February 23, an USDP member organized a pro-coup rally in Mong Khark, north of Kengtung, telling local Shan, Akha and Lahu villagers that anyone participating in the rally would receive 5,000 kyat. About 50 villagers from Mong Ka joined. They said they were not told that the rally was to support the Burma Army, and regretted joining. Eastern Shan State is heavily militarized by the Burma Army. Military Operations Command 14 is based in Mong Hsat, and Military Operations Command 18 at Mong Phyak, each comprising 10 battalions. All are under the Triangle Region Command in Kengtung, where large-scale people’s protests have been taking place against the military coup..."
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2021-02-25
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Description: "During the last week of April 2021, Burma Army troops and their militia allies used villagers as forced laborers and human shields, and looted property, during a multi-pronged operation against the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) in Namzarng, southern Shan State. On April 21, the Burma Army’s Eastern Central Regional Commander, Major-General Kyaw Kyaw Naing, summoned leaders of four of their militia allies to a meeting in Namzarng town, and ordered them to help crack down on the Civil Disobedience Movement and clear out RCSS/SSA troops from around Kengtawng, southern Shan State. Each militia group was ordered to provide 100 men each. The militia groups were the Mak Keng militia, Na Yai militia, SSS militia, and Kali militia, which all operate in southern Shan State. About 500 Burma Army troops were then deployed from north, south and west towards the Nam Teng river valley in southeast Namzarng township, adjoining Kengtawng. On April 22, around 7-8 am, Burma Army troops from Light Infantry Battalions (LIB) 332 and 575 based in Mong Pan clashed with RCSS/SSA troops north of Mong Nai, around Na Khan and Kawng Yao villages. On the same day, Burma Army troops from Namzarng clashed with RCSS/SSA troops near Loi Ngern village, about 20 kilometers east of Namzarng town. On April 23, at 3:10 pm, over 100 Burma Army troops from LIB 574 and LIB 576, based in Kengtawng, together with militia members, arrived in the village of Pha Sawn, about 25 kilometers south of Kho Lam on the Nam Teng river, and forced seven male villagers to carry water for them in two small trucks to the road intersection east of the village. At 3:30 pm, these Burma Army troops ordered all the villagers in Pha Sawn to gather at the local temple. There are 80 houses in Pha Sawn, with about 300 villagers. The Burma Army troops then divided into two groups; one went to search in the village and the other stayed guarding the villagers at the temple. At 5 pm, some Burma Army troops patrolling in the jungle ran into RCSS/SSA troops and fighting broke out near Pha Sawn village. At about 6 pm, during the fighting, the Burma Army troops at Pha Sawn temple arrested six male villagers from the temple and tied them up outside the temple. At 7: 30 pm, the Burma Army and militia troops in Pha Sawn looted property from six villagers’ houses. Due to the fighting and Burma Army abuses, some inhabitants of villages around Pha Sawn fled to take shelter in nearby towns. On April 24, at 4:30 pm, some Pha Sawn elders appealed to the Burma Army troops to release the six villagers who had been arrested from Pha Sawn temple. The troops untied them, but did not release them. On April 24, another group of Burma Army soldiers forced two men from Seven Mile village, 10 kilometers south of Kho Lam, to guide them south to Na Law village on the Nam Teng river. The two villagers were released at 7:30 pm. On April 25, at 11 am, the Burma Army and militia troops at Pha Sawn split up into two groups: one group went south, and the other group went to the northeast of Pha Sawn village. The six Pha Sawn villagers arrested by the Burma Army were taken south, and made to walk with the troops as human shields for about five kilometers until they reached the village of Wan Khai, beside the Nam Teng river. After spending the night at Wan Khai, the troops released the six Pha Sawn villagers, and allowed them to return home. On April 28, the villagers around Pha Sawn who had fled to take shelter in town returned to their homes. On March 30, the Burma Army warned the Thai authorities they would start attacking the RCSS/SSA camps along the southern Shan State-Thai border, because the RCSS/SSA was siding with the anti-coup protest movement. The Burma Army fired shells at these camps on April 18, 19 and 21, striking fear among the over 6,000 IDPs sheltering in these areas..."
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2021-05-03
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Description: "On March 19, 2021, France’s state-owned Electricite de France (EDF), revealed it was suspending development of the Shweli 3 dam project in northern Shan State, due to human rights concerns after the February 1 military coup. SHRF welcomes EDF’s decision, and urges the French engineering company Razel-Bec (part of the Fayat Group) to follow suit and immediately withdraw from the controversial Upper Yeywa dam project on the Myitnge/Namtu river in northern Shan State. Shan civil society groups are strongly opposed to the building of the Upper Yeywa dam, which was started by the military regime in 2008, without local consultation or consent. The reservoir of the 280 megawatt dam will stretch for 60 kilometers up to Hsipaw town, submerging centuries-old Shan communities and fertile farmlands. The dam-site lies in an active conflict zone, and Burma Army troops guarding the site have committed gross human rights violations against local villagers, including extrajudicial killing, torture and use of human shields. The Upper Yeywa dam is being financed by a loan from the Export-Import Bank of China. Shan community groups have repeatedly urged foreign companies involved in the dam to divest or risk complicity in the military’s human rights violations. After SHRF issued a report on July 9, 2020, “Extrajudicial killing, torture by Burma Army during operation against RCSS/SSA near Upper Yeywa dam site in Kyaukme,” the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, an international watchdog, wrote to all the companies involved, but only Swiss company Stucky replied, saying it was no longer involved in the project. The other companies, including IPGRB (Razel-Bec’s joint venture in Burma), did not reply. IPGRB is a joint venture between Razel-Bec and the International Power Group Public Company Ltd. (IPG). IPG is a subsidiary of International Group of Entrepreneurs (IGE), one of the leading business conglomerates in Burma, set up by the sons of former Burmese military general Aung Thaung, who was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in October 2014, for “undermining the positive political and economic transition in Burma,” and “perpetuating violence, oppression, and corruption.” IGE is the local partner of Chinese and Thai companies planning three giant dams on the Salween River in Shan and Karen State, strongly opposed by local communities (the Naung Pha, Mong Ton and Hatgyi dams). IPGRB appears to be the main foreign company now on the ground at the Upper Yeywa dam-site. The current Google satellite image of the site labels it as “IPGRB BASE CAMP.” Since the military coup on February 1, anti-coup protests have taken place in towns near the Upper Yeywa dam site, including Kyaukme and Hsipaw. On February 17, workers from the Upper Yeywa dam site joined the protests in Kyaukme, holding a banner saying “Upper Yeywa Hydropower Project Civil Disobedience Movement.” They were not seen joining any public protests after this date, but the sound of pot-banging in support of the CDM movement has been heard from the dam site in the evenings. Construction work at the dam site appears to have almost completely stopped. In the past few weeks, atrocities by the regime’s security forces have mounted, both against unarmed protesters in urban areas, and against villagers in conflict areas, who have been killed by aerial bombing. EDF cited its obligations to international human rights principles as the reason for suspending its dam project. This begs the question whether Razel-Bec adheres to the same principles. From the outset, Razel-Bec should never have cooperated with a military crony company to build a dam in war-torn Shan State against the wishes of local communities, and should never have ignored the gross human rights violations by security forces guarding its worksite. It is time now for Razel-Bec to stop siding with the murderous Burmese military regime, and to take a principled stand. We urge Razel-Bec to immediately pull out of the Upper Yeywa dam project..."
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2021-04-12
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Description: "On March 14, 2021, about 300 residents of Hsarm Lak village, Wo Lai village tract, Mong Pan township, Lang Khur district, southern Shan State were ordered to move out of their village by the Burma Army. The order was given by Military Operations Command (MOC) 17 in Mong Pan, under the control of the Eastern Central Command in Kholam. The villagers were told that they were illegally living on military territory. Hsarm Lak (also known as Kyawng Tham) is situated three miles east of Mong Pan town, along the main road leading to the Ta Hsang bridge over the Salween River. The entire southern half of the village, south of the road, comprising 45 houses, is being forced to move. 12 households are Burmese and the rest are Lisu. Hsarm Lak village was set up in 2001 by eight Lisu families who had been forcibly relocated by the Burma Army from their original homes in Loi Loam village, Wo Lai tract, and Kho Hak village, Tawng Gwai tract in Mong Pan during the Burma Army’s mass forced relocation campaign in central and southern Shan State during 1996-1998. At that time, the entire rural population of Mong Pan – about 10,000 people from 61 villages -- was forced from their homes into makeshift camps around the town, where nothing was provided for them. Those trying to return to their homes to forage for food were tortured and killed. In 1997 alone, SHRF documented extrajudicial killing of 37 villagers in Mong Pan, many of whom were beaten and tortured to death by Burma Army troops of LIB 331, 332 and 520. One old woman was burned alive in Wo Lai village. The Lisu villagers spent several years in the relocation sites. In 2001, they were still not allowed to return to their original villages, but were ordered by the Burma Army to set up a new village by the side of the main road at Hsarm Lak. This is now the third time the Lisu villagers are being forcibly relocated by the Burma Amy. The site to which they have been ordered to move is about ½ kilometer northeast of Hsarm Lak village, along the main road. They do not want to move there as the area is mountainous, with little available water, and the soil is poor. When the Hsarm Lak villagers were given the relocation order on March 14, they were pressured to sign a written agreement that they would move, since the land belonged to the military. However, only 14 households signed the agreement. 31 households, all Lisu, did not sign. On March 19, the Hsarm Lak villagers who had not signed were summoned to the MOC 17 base by Lieutenant General Myo Min Than, who pressured them again to sign, saying their village was on MOC 17 territory. He said his tenure at MOC 17 was five years. He had been there for two years already, and they had to move out before he left. The villagers still refused to sign. MOC 17, which comprises 10 battalions, was set up in Mong Pan in 2000. Mong Pan is a key strategic location for the Burma Army, lying along the main southern Shan State transport route which crosses the Salween River at Ta Sang, linking to Mong Ton in eastern Shan State. The MOC 17 base is strategically positioned on the hills east of Mong Pan town, overlooking the town and the main road. However, the base currently does not extend to the high hills behind Sarm Lak village. It appears that the relocation of Sarm Lak is linked to plans by MOC 17 is expand and fortify its base eastwards, to defend against potential attacks from that direction. Tension between the Burma Army and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), which operates in Mong Pan, has escalated sharply since the military coup on February 1. The Burma Army’s mass forced relocation campaign in 1996-1998, which uprooted over 300,000 villagers in eleven townships in Shan State, was aimed at cutting off support for the newly formed RCSS/SSA..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2021-04-09
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-06
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Description: "In the evening of August 18, 2019, Burma Army troops from Infantry Battalion 68 fired shells from the local temple directly into the village of Koong Sa, about 10 kilometers northeast of Lashio town, killing a 52-year-old farmer. Early that morning, Brotherhood Alliance troops had passed near Koong Sa. Soon afterwards, Burma Army IB 68 troops began firing shells towards Koong Sa and nearby villages from about five kilometers to the west, damaging several houses. Burma Army helicopters also dropped bombs in the nearby jungle, causing many villagers to start fleeing from their homes. Around midday, about fifty IB 68 troops, led by Major Aung Gyi, entered Koong Sa and set up camp in the village temple, where many villagers were taking shelter. That evening, at about 6 pm, these troops began firing 60 mm shells directly into Koong Sa village. One of the shells fell near 52-year-old Loong Aye, who was searching for his family at a neighbour’s house, about 200 meters from the temple. Shrapnel struck him in the chest, killing him instantly. His body was picked up by a social welfare group the next day and taken to Lashio Hospital, then cremated..."
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Source/publisher: "Shan Human Rights Foundation"
2019-08-29
Date of entry/update: 2019-09-10
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Description: "On July 6, 2019, a Lahu villager was beaten by Burma Army troops of LIB 579 when buying rice in his village, Wan Mong Lieng, Mong Lieng village tract, Mong Peang township, Mong Hsat district, eastern Shan State. On that day, at 6 pm, 32-year-old Ja Paw, went into a rice shop to buy rice, when he met 20 Burma Army soldiers from LIB 579, who asked him whether he was taking the rice to Shan troops. They punched him seven times, as they questioned him: “Are you buying the rice for the Shan troops?” He replied: “No, I am just buying it for myself. I am going into the jungle to collect some herbal medicine to sell.” The Burma Army soldiers interrogated him for an hour before letting him go. Burma Army LIB 579 is based in Mong Hsat, supervised by Military Operations Command 14 under the control of the Triangle Regional Command in Kengtung, eastern Shan State Wan Mong Lieng village has 30 households, Shan and Lahu. Ja Paw is the son of Loong Ja Hay and Pa Na Hay, who are both Wan Mong Lieng villagers. On July 13-15, 2019, Burma Army troops from LIB 554, based in Mong Tum, went on patrol around Wan Na Koon Hsai, Mong Pu Awn village tract, Mong Peang township, eastern Shan State, and looted the local villagers’ livestock and vegetables. On July 13, 2019 at 8 am, about 30 troops from this unit looted chili, mustard leaves and a duck, all worth 15,000 kyats (=10 US$) belonging to Loong Kyaung Phoe Ma and Pa Kyaung Wo Jing, in Wan Na Koon Hsai village. On July 14, 2019 at 3 pm, the same troops came to steal three ducks worth 30,000 kyat (=20 US$) from Pu Lai Hsy Hseng and Pa Lai Hsy Lu in Wan Na Koon Hsai again. On July 15, 2019 at 7 am, the same troops came to steal three ducks worth 24,000 kyats (=16 US$) from Loong Kyaung Phoe Ma and Pa Kyaung Wo Jing, in Wan Na Koon Hsai village. The soldiers stayed outside the village, but came into the village to steal food...ရှမ်းပြည်အေရှေ့ပိုင်း၊ မိုင်းပျဉ်းမြို့နယ်တွင် ဆန်ဝယ်ပြီးပြန်လာသည့် ဒေသခံရွာသားတဦးကို အစိုးရစစ်တပ်၊ တပ်သားများက ရိုက်နှက်စစ်ဆေးခြင်း"
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Source/publisher: "Progressive Voice" via Shan Human Rights Foundation
2019-07-25
Date of entry/update: 2019-08-06
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Description: "Burma Army use of drones for the first time near Loi Lam IDP camp on the northern Chiang Mai border, and near-completion of a new strategic road from Mong Hta to the Salween River, is instilling fear among IDPs of impending attack. On September 16, a drone was sent over this border area from the nearby Burma Army IB 293 camp. On September 23, a drone was again sent from the same camp, where the Triangle Regional Commander Brigadier General Khin Hlaing had arrived in a convoy of seven army trucks from the IB 249 base at Mong Taw..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2018-10-04
Date of entry/update: 2018-10-17
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Description: "On October 1, 2018, at about 6 pm, a 34-year-old farmer riding a motorcycle was shot and killed by a patrol of Burma Army troops from LIB 504 in Kyaukme township, northern Shan State, close to China?s trans-Burma oil and gas pipelines. The farmer, Sai Ai Htun, from Nawng Arng village, about 10 miles east of Kyaukme town, was on his way to his hill farm, when he saw a group of about 15 Burma Army soldiers from Hsipaw-based LIB 504 patrolling near the entrance of his farm. Fearful of meeting them, he turned his motorbike around and began riding away. The troops called out to him to stop, and shot after him. A bullet entered his back and killed him..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2018-10-16
Date of entry/update: 2018-10-17
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Description: "During a military operation against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in Hsipaw at the end of November, Burma Army troops from LIB 147 used forced labor, looted food and requisitioned trucks from local villagers. On November 28, 2017, about 60 Burmese government troops from LIB 147, based at Nawng Kaw, arrived in two trucks at Bar Karng village, then continued walking to Khar Khio village, where they forced one 50-year-old villager called Loong Su to guide them to Nam Lin village (a Palaung village with about 30 households). When they arrived there, they let him return home, then slept there for one night..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2017-12-04
Date of entry/update: 2018-04-05
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Description: "On March 18, 2018, Burma Army troops from IB 23 shot dead two civilians riding a motorcycle near Wan Shwe Kyaung village, about five miles from the Upper Yeywa damsite in Kyaukme township, northern Shan State. The two men, Sai Ba, age 43, and Saw Dawna, age 29, were from Wan Shwe Kyawng, and were riding a motorcycle towards Nawng Bing village. Sai Ba was driving the motorcycle, and Sai Dawna was sitting behind him. Two other friends were riding another motorcycle behind them. At 5.30 am, when they were about half a mile from Wan Shwe Kyawng, they were shot at by five Burma Army troops sitting in a car parked at the side of the road..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2018-03-26
Date of entry/update: 2018-04-05
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Description: "From December 31 2017 to January 7, 2018, six Burma Army battalions under all four regional military commands in Shan State launched attacks on Shan armed groups- irrespective of whether they had signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) - and committed human rights violations against local civilians in northern, southern and eastern Shan State. Violations included torture, arbitrary arrest, forced labor, requisitioning of food and vehicles, and threats to burn down a village. On December 31, 2017 over 100 Burma Army troops of (IB) 147 and 243 under the NE Command attacked and burned down a drug rehabilitation centre run by the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) at Nam Yam about 30 miles southeast of Hsipaw town. On the same day, the troops arbitrarily arrested four civilians ? badly torturing one of them - and requisitioned five local vehicles..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2018-01-26
Date of entry/update: 2018-04-05
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Description: "On September 10 at 8:00 am, a group of about 60 Burma Army troops from LIB 325 based in Mong Yai and the local Nam Pawng pro-government militia, were on patrol north of Wan Loi Yoi, Pa Karng tract, Mong Yai township, when they encountered a land mine blast. They then started indiscriminately shelling and shooting. When they heard the shelling and shooting, all the residents of Wan Loi Yoi ? about 300 people from 50 houses - fled their homes in three cars and Chinese trucks. About 100 villagers fled to Wan Nam Poak (a Shan village with over 200 inhabitants) in Pa Karng village tract, taking refuge there for one day, and about 200 villagers fled into the jungle and sheltered in farm tents. Wan Loi Yoi is situated about 20 miles from Mong Yai town, in the southwest of Mong Yai township, Lashio district, northern Shan State..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2017-09-14
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-21
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Description: "Since the end of July 2017, Burma Army troops have continued patrolling around northern Ho Pong township, torturing, killing and arresting local civilians. Between July 31 and August 5, 2017, Burma Army troops from IB 249 and LIB 425 raided three villages in Ho Pong township, two in the middle of the night. Five villagers were beaten, and eleven villagers, including a 16-year-old schoolboy, were arrested. On July 31, a villager was shot dead by Burma Army troops of LIB 421. On September 9, troops from LIB 514 arbitrarily arrested and severely tortured a village secretary..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2017-09-21
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-21
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Description: "During July 16-30, 2017, hundreds of Burma Army troops from at least eight battalions patrolled through three village tracts in Ho Pong township, southern Shan State, arresting and torturing civilians, in what appears to be collective punishment for an armed clash with the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) in the area on July 14, 2017. The whereabouts of seven detained villagers, including a 12-year-old boy, are unknown..."
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation
2017-08-04
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Commentary: No Right to Life, Liberty and Security of Person... Rape and killing in Kun-Hing... Extrajudicial killing in Murng-Yai... Extrajudicial killing in Tang-Yarn... Random shelling kills 4 monks, damages a monastery, in Murng-Su... Women detained and gang-raped for 5 days, causing death, in Tang-Yarn... Gang-Rape, beating, forced labour and extortion, in Kun-Hing... Random shooting, severe beating, cultural discrimination, in Kun-Hing... Severe beating, causing serious injuries, in Murng-Nai... A displaced villager severely beaten in Murng-Sart... Civilian porters severely beaten up, forced to stay in the rain all night, in Murng-Kerng... Beating of farming couple in Murng-Kerng... Forced relocations of Lahu communities in Murng-Sart
Source/publisher: Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF)
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-26
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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