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Women and Children Are Paying the Highest Price in Burma’s Ongoing Crisis

Southeastern Burma

The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has released Issue 2, Volume 2 of its “Voice Up” report, covering the second quarter of 2025, and the findings are heartbreaking. From April to June, women and children across Southeastern Burma have continued to suffer deeply as the military junta escalates its violence.

In just three months, 22 women lost their lives, 80 were injured, and 42 were arbitrarily arrested. The pain did not stop there—23 children were killed, and 32 others were seriously hurt, many during sudden artillery attacks and airstrikes in villages where no fighting was taking place. Download the full media release (PDF)

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“They Were Just a Family Trying to Survive”: Three Children and Their Father Killed by Junta Shelling in Yebyu Township

In a heartbreaking tragedy, four members of a family—including three innocent children—were killed on the evening of July 8, 2025, when a heavy artillery shell fired by junta troops struck near their small shelter in a rubber plantation close to Kawhlain Village. Their mother was critically injured and is now fighting for her life.

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Junta cuts telecommunication network for more than a month in Tenasserim and Long Lone

HURFOM: Since the last week of May, 2025, there have been frequent armed clashes and growing military tension in Tenasserim and Long Lone Township, Tenasserim Division. 

The military junta cut off the telecommunication network, and banned transportation of gasoline in Tenasserim Township.

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Forced Conscription and Military Fees Intensify in Mon State Ahead of Batch 15 Training

HURFOM:In Mon State, the junta is stepping up forced recruitment efforts and collecting military fees from civilians in preparation for the upcoming Batch 15 of the People’s Military Service Training, according to local residents and HURFOM field reports.

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Revolutionary forces announce plan to interrupt what they call ‘junta’s sham election’

HURFOM: The military junta has been preparing to hold an election in the third week of December, 2025.  Numerous revolutionary forces across Burma said they would do everything to interrupt and stop the junta’s sham election.

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Three Pagoda Pass residents receive phone signal back but no access to mobile data

HURFOM: Since the second week of March, 2025, the military junta has cut off the telecommunication network in Three Pagoda Pass Town, Kyarinnseikyi Township, Karen State. After three months, on June 29^th, the mostly used ATOM phone service has returned back but it is only a 2G signal and there is no access to mobile/cellular data.

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Displaced villagers from Pine Yat still unable to return home

HURFOM: On June 9^th, 2025, the military junta dropped bombs on a self-reliant school in Pine Yat village, Kaw Ka Rate Township, Karen State and nearly 200 villagers had to flee from their homes.

Five villagers were killed and 30 were injured during the June-9 air assault.

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Junta Using Multiple Tactics to Forcibly Conscript Youth in Dawei

HURFOM: In Dawei, the military junta is intensifying efforts to forcibly conscript young people into military service through a range of aggressive tactics. Local residents report that junta forces—including police, soldiers, Pyu Saw Htee militia, ten-household leaders, and plainclothes informants—are conducting street patrols, house inspections, and guest list checks to identify and detain eligible youth.

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Weekly Analysis: Indiscriminate Firing Threatens Civilian Safety in Southeastern Burma

During the first week of July 2025, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) was alarmed by the escalation of targeted attacks by the military junta against women and children in specific areas of Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi Region. In Mon State specifically, between June 25 and 29, 2025, the military junta fired at least ten artillery shells into four villages—Kyauk Yay Twin, Pane Nell Gone, Zee Pyaung #1, and Win Kan—in Kyike Hto Township, Mon State. According to the Thaton District Karen National Union (KNU), there were no armed clashes in the area at the time of the attacks.

One local woman, Daw Htay from Kyauk Yay Twin village, was injured when artillery shrapnel struck her abdomen. In addition, four homes were damaged: one each in Zee Pyaung #1 and Kyauk Yay Twin, and two more in Win Kan village.

“The junta has been launching artillery attacks almost daily in Kyike Hto. We’ve documented every incident. I truly believe they will have to face justice one day,” said Pa Doe Saw Aye Nile, Secretary of the Thaton District KNU.

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Junta arrests two young travelers in Bilin

HURFOM: On June 16^th, 2025, junta troops dragged two young travelers out of an express bus and arrested them at the old tollgate in Bilin Township, Mon State.

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