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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Fourth Week of January 2024

As the first week of the year comes to an end, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) continues to observe an increase in the atrocities being perpetrated by the military junta across Southeastern Burma. Civilians have been attempting to return to their daily lives as much as the current circumstances permit. Still, it has been incredibly challenging, given the rising presence of soldiers in local villages. In recent months, particularly towards the second half of 2023, the Burma Army lost many military bases. In retaliation, the junta has been punishing local people with their usual tactics of isolation, fear and intimidation.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Third Week of January 2024

Over the last week, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) received two devastating updates on the ill-treatment of political prisoners who died from preventable causes. Both young men died after failing to receive immediate emergency assistance. HURFOM condemned the response by the junta-backed medical staff who failed to take steps that would have saved the lives of the two victims. According to the rights monitoring group, the Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar (PPNM), seventeen political prisoners died in 2023 because their medical symptoms were ignored and treated too late by junta-staffed personnel.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Second Week of January 2024

In conflict-torn Southeastern Burma, civilians are seeking refuge and urgently needed protection from the ongoing bombardments by the military junta. Across target areas of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), including Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi region, those displaced continue to rise as offensives intensify.

For example, in Mon State, nearly 3,000 local people in Thaton District, who have been fleeing the war for almost a month due to the fighting, require emergency assistance, including basic food, medicine, shelter, blankets, and warm clothes, which are urgently needed.  Since December 13th, the fighting between the two sides has intensified since the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) blocked and attacked the junta’s Win Tar Pan camp based in Bilin.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, First Week of January 2024

The first week of the year in Southeastern Burma saw more violence by the junta in target areas of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), including Mon State, Karen State and the Tanintharyi region. The situation of human rights continues to escalate, particularly in Mon State, where since 19 December, the junta has waged widespread and indiscriminate attacks against local, unarmed civilians. On 29 December 2023, HURFOM released a statement of concern after documenting the forced displacement of more than 22,000 people, the deaths of ten and nearly two dozen injured.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Second Week of December 2023

It has been a very long year for the people of Burma, who have been forced to endure ongoing violence perpetrated against them with impunity. The delayed and inadequate reply by the international community has only made things more challenging for those regularly being impacted by the atrocities deployed against them. With so much injustice and no reliable pathways for accountability and justice, the war is only worsening. Against all odds, civilians have remained resilient at the cost of their survival. They are on the run constantly and refuse to see the junta as any measure of humanity.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, First Week of December 2023

Human Rights Day was commemorated on 10 December 2023 with the theme of Consolidating and Sustaining Human Rights Culture into the Future. The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has launched a report responding to the theme, “Culture in the Crosshairs: How the Junta is Systematically Targeting Human Rights Culture with Military Impunity.” Our report analyzes the current human rights situation in Southeastern Burma and how quickly it is deteriorating, particularly in Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi region. Viewed through a cultural lens, the report also exposes how the junta is targeting the culture of local people when they force them from their homes and destroy their sacred places of worship.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Fourth Week of November 2023

In Southeastern Burma, violence remains targeted against civilians who are living in parts of the country where conflict is intensifying. Among the most vulnerable are women and children, who comprise the majority of those displaced, and the last week included the beginning of the ‘16 Day Campaign to End Gender-Based Violence,’ which is acknowledged by many human rights groups in Burma. During these challenging times of turmoil and uncertainty, the commitment to ending gendered violence is affirmed, and the work to spread awareness is ongoing. For example, the Karen Women’s Organization shared their theme, including a call to create a community free from violence against women.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Third Week of November

A weekly update by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) on the situation on the ground. Summary data includes Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi region.

As the conflict intensifies across Burma, civilians in the Southeastern part of the country also continue to face immense threats to their safety. Women and children are among the most vulnerable who have been routinely displaced. Their security is not guaranteed in IDP camps or temporary shelters as military aircraft can be heard circling above with the possibility of an attack imminent. There is trauma and widespread uncertainty as families struggle to cope amidst worsening circumstances.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Second Week of November

Now, perhaps more than ever since the failed coup, it has become abundantly clear that the military junta is losing the war it started. Widespread opposition to the regime’s hostilities and attempted power-grab has resulted in military defections and a growing armed presence along the country’s borders. On October 27, 2023, the Northern Three Brotherhood Alliance started a 1027 military operation in Northern Shan State.  The military junta has lost many of their bases as a result.

The 1027 operation also impacted Southern Burma, with the military junta tightening security more than usual in the Mon and Tenasserim areas, reported one resident. Combined groups consisting of soldiers, police members and security forces in civilian clothes are aggressively interrogating people at both entry and exit checkpoints to Mawlamyine in Mon State.

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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, First Week of November

Civilians continue to be caught in the crossfire of violence deployed by the military junta. By the end of October 2023, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) reported that at least 68 civilians had been arrested, five detained, four injured, and 15 killed. The fieldworkers based in HURFOM target areas of Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi region are reporting on the daily horrors committed by the junta with impunity.

On November 1st, an eighth-grade student who was being treated for medical treatment after being hit with artillery fire attacked by the military junta in Tanintharyi Township died two weeks after he was struck. Around midday on October 14th, without any fighting, the military junta troops stationed on Lay Thar Mountain in Taninthayi launched artillery weapons. One of the shells hit a 16-year-old, eight-year-old grade student, Mg Pyae Day Won, and a male family member from Tamok Choung.

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