Armed group demolishes the ancient city of “Tar Ga Ra” and is selling the land
February 18, 2025
HURFOM: Since February 15th, 2025, an armed group has been demolishing “Tar Ga Ra”, the ancient city in Long Lone Township, Dawei District, Tenasserim Division. The demolition is so the group can create and sell land plots.
Read moreJunta’ artillery attack kills villager and injures another in Pu Law
February 18, 2025
HURFOM: On February 14th, 2025, the junta’s indiscriminate artillery attacks killed a man and injured a woman from Shut Pone village, Pu Law Township, Tenasserim Division.
Read moreDisplaced villagers in Tenasserim suffer from skin diseases and acute diarrhea
February 18, 2025
HURFOM: Since December, 2024, there have been intense armed clashes between the military junta and the joint resistance forces in Tenasserim Township, Tenasserim Division. Ten thousand residents from Yebyu, Tone Kha, Chaung Hna Pauk and Tha Baw Sake villages and Thane Khun village tract have had to flee their homes.
Read moreWeekly Analysis: Young Men Increasingly Targeted in the Junta’s Illegal Forced Conscription Effort
February 17, 2025
February 2025 | Week Two
HURFOM: The military junta has lost significant gains and territory. Their response to their failing military strategy has been to increase airstrikes, which target civilians and have killed more than 107 people in January alone. The junta has also moved to increasing their abductions and arbitrary arrests of young men across the country, who are then forcibly enlisted and recruited into the regime without their consent.
In targeted areas of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), including Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi region, the junta’s grasp for control is evident in its forced recruitment tactics. For instance, the military has started conducting mandatory military training for university lecturers, teachers, and students at Mawlamyine University in Mon State as part of its broader conscription efforts.
Read moreJunta’s troops shoot and kill a local man who tried to escape arrest
February 17, 2025
HURFOM: On February 13th, 2025, the 96th Light Infantry Battalion attempted to arrest a local man at home in Ma Log Chaung village, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State.
The junta claimed 50-year-old U Kyaw Aung tried to run away and was shot and killed.
Read moreFather attempts to rape his own underaged daughter
February 14, 2025
HURFOM: On February 8th, 2025, a father attempted to rape his own underage daughter in Ya Tail Taung village, Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State.
While the mother went outside at about 8 pm, 38-year-old U Nine Win attempted to rape his 11-year-old daughter who fell asleep in her bed.
Read moreJunta burns down other 50 houses in Ah Nan Kwin
February 14, 2025
HURFOM: There has been an intense and constant battle between the military junta and the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army in Ah Nan Kwin village which is located beside Three Pagoda Pass – Thanbyuzayat Motorway, Kyarinnseikyi Township, Karen State and the armed conflict has forced the entire population of the village to flee home.
Read moreJunta’s air assaults destroy 17 houses and a monastery in Bilin
February 13, 2025
HURFOM: On February 9th, 2025, the military junta launched air assaults on Ta Gay Long village, Bilin Township, Mon State which is under the control of the Thaton District Karen National Union. The assaults destroyed 17 houses and a monastery, and damaged pagodas and religious buildings. Villagers were forced to flee their homes.
Read moreUnderaged young man arrested in early February, by junta’s navy still not released
February 13, 2025
HURFOM: On February 6th, 2025, the Mawrawaddy Navy Command arrested a 17-year-old male and his friend from Taung Yin Inn village, Phar Chaung village track, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim.
The navy released the friend after both were interrogated but they detained the young man. He has not been released as of today.
Read moreJunta destroys seven houses in Tha Yet Chaung
February 13, 2025
HURFOM: On February 9th, 2025, one of the junta’s regiments launched a military operation in Tha Yet Chaung Township, Tenasserim Division. According to local sources, junta troops entered the village via Pan Pyin – Mell Nell Owl village on February 8th and within two days the troops burnt down and destroyed seven houses.
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