NUG sentences a PDF member to six-year imprisonment
January 30, 2025
HURFOM: In August, 2023, a member of the People’s Defense Force raped a woman from Long Lone Township, Tenasserim Division.
The victim filed a report with the Ministry of Woman, Youth and Child Affairs of the National Unity Government and on January 20th, 2025, the NUG sentenced the rapist to six-year’s imprisonment.
Read moreJunta burns houses in Kyauk Ne Maw: Displaced villagers unable to return home
January 29, 2025
HURFOM: On December 24th, 2024, an armed clash took place between the military junta and the People’s Defense Force in Kyauk Ne Maw village, Long Lone Township, Tenasserim Division. The junta’s artillery attack burnt down and destroyed 280 houses in the village.
Read moreAdministrators extort residents to hire security guards
January 29, 2025
HURFOM: The ward Administrators of Pu Law Town, Pu Law Township, Tenasserim Division have issued an order that five residents from each ward in Pu Law Town must serve as security guards for the community fire alarm system and each guard will be paid 250,000 MMK monthly.
Read moreJunta’s air strike kills local woman in Kaw Ka Rate
January 28, 2025
HURFOM: On January 22nd, 2025, the military junta launched an air assault on Ward #5, Kyike Done Town, Kaw Ka Rate Township, Karen State which is under the control of the Karen National Union. There were no armed clashes in the area. The air strike killed a local woman.
Read moreJunta restricts transportation of cement to impede construction of bomb shelters
January 28, 2025
HURFOM: There have been frequent armed clashes in Karen State, and the military junta has launched repeated air assaults forcing local people to construct bomb shelters for their safety.
Read moreTwo local men arrested in Pu Law
January 27, 2025
HURFOM: On January 21st, 2025, 45-year-old U Than Tun and 35-year-old Ko Thet Ko from Ward #2, Pu Law Town, Tenasserim Division were arrested and taken by the 285th Light Infantry Battalion.
Read moreThree local women and 4 young men arrested in Zin Kyike
January 27, 2025
HURFOM: On January 21st, 2025, three local women from Pha Hlut Ward, Zin Kyike Town, Paung Township, Mon State were arrested by the military junta.
27-year-old schoolteacher Daw Tike Tike San, 18-year-old tailor Ma Soon Mon and a local woman attending Japanese language training were arrested by the military. No reason for arrests has been provided.
Read moreJunta forcible collects household list documents in downtown Mawlamyine
January 27, 2025
HURFOM: Since the third week of January, 2025, the junta-controlled ward administration team has been collecting copies of household list documents in downtown wards in Mawlamyine, Mon State.
Read moreSeven residents injured and one killed in junta’s artillery attack
January 27, 2025
HURFOM: On January 22nd, 2025, the 306th artillery regiment based in Maw Tone village, Tenasserim Township, Tenasserim Division launched indiscriminate 120-mm artillery attacks on nearby villages that injured four men and three women.
Read moreWeekly Analysis: Drone Attacks and Artillery Shelling Target Civilians in Southeastern Burma
January 27, 2025
Civilians in Burma have been forced to endure endless attacks by the military junta. Communities that have long been affected by the junta’s atrocities are living in constant fear. In targeted areas of Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi region, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has documented debilitating circumstances that continue to threaten and undermine the safety of local people.
The junta’s ongoing artillery shelling and drone strikes in Kyaik Hto and Bilin townships, Mon State, have left residents living in constant fear. Since the second week of January 2025, the intensified attacks have caused injuries, destroyed homes, and forced villagers to either flee or seek protection in makeshift bomb shelters.
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