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NUP campaign promises immunity from regime abuses

HURFOM: While the USDP has thus far dominated most accounts of government support and abuse against civilians prior to the 2010 election, the NUP has also returned to again contest Burma’s national election. The NUP, intending to raise membership and support before going to the polls, has been coercing the support of voters through incentives of protection against current government abuses. This tactic indicates strong ties with government support despite election laws. Read more

ND-Burma Network release groundbreaking report on SPDC taxation abuses

This morning the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND Burma Network), a multi-ethnic collective of 13 member organizations, of which HURFOM is an active part, released a groundbreaking new report entitled “We have to give them so much that our stomachs are empty of food: The Hidden Impact of Burma’s Arbitrary and Corrupt Taxation”, that details the impacts of widespread and oppressive taxation. Read more

SPDC soldiers arbitrarily shoot villager and boy

HURFOM, Pegu Division: An SPDC column recently relocated to a new patrol zone in Kyauk Kyi Township shot a villager tending his cattle in a field with no apparent warning or justification. Besides killing the villager, a boy was also injured and is receiving treatment. This comes as the 12th outright execution of a resident by SPDC battalions in Kyauk Kyi Township since the start of 2010. Read more

SPDC Battalion uses forced porters as human shield against land mines and further attack

HURFOM, Kyarinnseikyi: As a consequence of the increasing skirmishes between SPDC and KNLA forces in the southern part of Karen State, villagers have been subjected to several incidents of forced portering by SPDC units.  After several engagements, villagers were pressed into portering service by SPDC soldiers in apparent retribution for the KNLA assaults. In multiple instances these civilian porters were intentionally used by SPDC as human shields to protect the advancing columns from additional assaults or the presence of landmines along the road. Read more

American Specialist Children’s Hospital in Mawlamyine Overflowing with Patients

WCRP: More children in Mon State are getting sick this year than last year and hospitals are struggling to keep up. The American Specialist Children’s Hospital in Mawlamyine was full in May. Since June, patients have been sharing beds and sleeping on the floor. The hospital, which mainly treats children from the Thanphyuzayart area, has two hundred and fifteen beds. Read more

Cultivators and local inhabitants face threat to livelihood and life after LIB No. 273 bans travel outside villages in northern Tenasserim Division:

HURFOM, Yebu Township,Tenasserim Division:

Villages in Yebyu Township are facing harsh 24 hr travel restrictions outside of their villages due to a joint emergency order issued by two SPDC military commands’ over the presence of armed splinter groups in the area. Famers have been banned from traveling to their farms outside the village. Local residents may face serious threats to their livelihood and economic capacity if travel restrictions continue. Read more

SPDC continues systematized abuse of villager’s vehicles in Yebyu Township

HURFOM, Lort Taing village-track, Yebyu Township

Soldiers from the SPDC have been seizing vehicles from Yebyu Township villagers for their personal use, without compensation or regard for the treatment of the vehicles.  This practice, which has occurred for 10 years, has slowly increased in severity as demands for vehicles have become more presumptuous.  A shocking indicator of this abuse to personal property is that for many locals it is almost normalized, with an expectation that this practice is normal. Read more

Series of extortion and labor demands by SPDC, DKBA and KPF hits Kawkareik Township economy

HURFOM, Kawkareik: At least 9 villages in Kawkareik Township, Karen State, have been subject to a barrage of taxation and supply demands from forces belonging to a variety of Burmese government and allied forces in early June. These combined demands have in most instances required villages to pay over 100,000 kyat in the space of days. Additionally in some cases villagers were forced to perform labor without compensation and had to pay individual political support fees to a government party. Read more

SPDC fines villagers for digging bomb-shelters for their security in Kyainnsekyi Township

HURFOM, Anan Kwin: Villagers have been digging bomb shelters for protection against the increasingly frequent skirmishes between the Burmese State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) forces. However according to the local SPDC commander the presence of these shelters destabilizes the community and has issued harsh fines and threats of forced portering for families who already have built or will built, shelters to improve their security. Read more

Tax increase at SPDC checkpoint on Zami River, financial burden for travelers and merchants

Kawkareik District: Passengers and merchants traveling along the Zami River have told HURFOM’s field reporter that soldiers from Burmese army Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 403, are arbitrarily increasing travel taxes at their checkpoint along the eastern bank of the Zami river at Phaya Ngote Toe village, Three Pagoda Pass (TPP). Travelers report the additional tax is damaging financial burden, as travel along the river requires 70% of the travel cost to be spend on checkpoint taxes.

LIB No. 403 operates under Military Operations Management Command (MOMC) or “SaKaKha” No.8, as a support battalion away from the State Peace and Development Council’s (SPDC) front line conflicts. Its checkpoint at Phaya Gnote Toe can be reached directly by riverboat from TPP, which continues on to Kyarinnseikyi Township, Karen State. Read more

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