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Artillery explosion injuries four residents including two monks in Kyike Hto

HURFOM: On June 21st, 2024, the 310^th artillery regiment based in Thane Za Yat, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State launched two 120-mm artillery attacks on Kha Ywelve village. There was no active armed clash and the artillery shells exploded near “Taung Kyaung” monastery and residential houses.

The explosion injured Kha Ywelve Abbot, his fellow monk, 75-year-old U San Tin and 62-year-old Daw San Myint and destroyed three houses.

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

Political Prisoners Protest Denial of Care and Neglect

Life for the people in Burma continues to be increasingly challenging. However, the junta’s terror tactics have not silenced or deterred the ongoing movement in the country for peace and democracy, including in the target areas of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), including Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi region. Even in the junta-run prisons where thousands of political prisoners remain unjustly detained, they continue to demand their rights and freedoms.

On the evening of June 12th, protests erupted inside Kyaikmayaw Central Prison in Mon State due to the denial of care for an injured prisoner who was ordered to perform welding work on a two-story building during a rainstorm. The inmate was electrocuted, fell, and lost consciousness.

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Family members arrested in Bilin

HURFOM: On June 16th, 2024, political activists from Zote Tote village, Bilin Township, Mon State were arrested by the junta, according to local sources.

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Social workers and residents arrested after being accused of supporting PDF

HURFOM: On June 13th and 14th, 2024, four social workers who are members of “Kaw Sa Nine” Social and Charity Association in Kaw Sa Nine Ward, Kyike Hto Town, Mon State and other four young residents from the same town were arrested by the junta after being accused of supporting the People’s Defense Forces.

At about 7 pm on June 13th, U Mya Aung was arrested in Kaw Sa Nine Ward. Then, his daughter Ma Chit Su Yadanar and co-workers U Soe Hline and Ko Chan Thar Aung were arrested at their houses.

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Junta extorts individuals using VPN applications on their mobile phones

HURFOM: At the moment, the security forces of the military junta are checking the mobile phones of the pedestrians in Mon State, and if they find VPN applications, security forces have extorted as much as 100,000 MMK.

Since early June, 2024, junta’s security forces from various departments who have stationed themselves at exit or entrances of towns and road junctions have been checking mobile phones of pedestrians. The forces are targeting VPN applications to extort money from the users.

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Displaced villagers from airport project face accommodation hardships

HURFOM: The military junta informed villagers who were in the project area of the new airport near Kaw Pa Ran village, Mudon Township, Mon State to move out by May 2, 2024 at the latest or they would be removed forcefully. Villagers have demolished their houses and transferred their belongings even in the rainy season.

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Dawei youth go abroad to avoid conscription

HURFOM: On May 24th, 2024, junta-appointed Administrators met at the hall of the compound office in Dawei City, Tenasserim Division to discuss details regarding the third batch of compulsory military service. Soon after the meeting, summons letters with exact names and ID numbers were issued.

“The letters have been delivered in every ward. After accepting the letters, parents have to go to the ward administration office and fill out the conscription form. The junta hasn’t collected candidates door-to-door but they have sent summons letters regularly,” said a local source.

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Substitutes for compulsory military service cost as much as 6 million MMK

HURFOM: The military junta has instructed all village/ward Administrators that each village In Mon State, must send at least one candidate to compulsory military service.  Mon State has more than 1,100 villages or wards.

“We were instructed to send one candidate for each village. But many villages have failed to do so. The junta is applying pressure on those villages. They said we must send a candidate at any cost,” said a village Administrator from Paung Township.

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One man killed and ten men arrested in Maung Mell Shaung

HURFOM: On June 14th, 2024, the military junta battled with the local resistant forces near Maung Mell Shaung village, Dawei Township, Tenasserim Division. 

According to local sources, more than 100 troops were involved in a battle with the People’s Defense Force. After the fighting ceased, the local villagers found a 73-year-old man was killed in his house and ten other men were arrested by the junta’s troops.

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Air assault injures child and damages two houses in Tenasserim

HURFOM: On June 13fh, 2024, the military junta launched an air assault on Ta Gu village, Tenasserim Township, Tenasserim Division, that injured a 12-year-old child and destroyed two houses.

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