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Pregnant woman sustains serious injury in a shooting incident in Ah Sin village

HURFOM: At about 4 pm on November 25^th, 2024, members of a local militia group stationed at the entrance of Ah Sin village, Ye Township, Mon State stopped four young men who were riding two motorbikes. The men did not follow the order, so the militia members shot at them and subsequently arrested them.

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Voice Up IV: A Gendered Lens on Human Rights in Southeastern Burma (Sep-Nov 2024)

Introduction

This report is the fourth in a series of quarterly updates and analyses, combining data collected from the ground by the Women and Child Rights project of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM).

Before the attempted coup in Burma on 1 February 2021, HURFOM published similar content in a bulletin-style format under the title ‘Voice Up.’ The Women and Children’s Rights project is of utmost importance as it seeks to monitor the situation of women and children in Mon areas and southern Burma and how it relates to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Field staff collect and distribute information and data to our local and international networks.

The findings empower and educate women and children in the Mon community by providing information on their rights, according to CEDAW and CRC, and encouraging them to participate in the struggle to protect and enforce their fundamental freedoms.

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The Human Rights Foundation of Monland Releases Fourth Report in the “Voice Up” Series: A Gendered Overview of the Human Rights Situation in Southeastern BurmaSeptember – November 2024

27 November 2024

For Immediate Release

Today, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) releases the fourth and final report of the year in the Voice Up series, which focuses on the gendered impacts of the attempted coup in Southeastern Burma throughout the year. The findings from September to November 2024 indicate an ongoing decline in women’s rights and their fundamental freedoms. Attacks against innocent civilians continue with impunity and a lack of meaningful intervention by the international community. The first update was published at the beginning of March 2024, the second followed in June 2024, and the third most recently released in September 2024.

In targeted areas of Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi region, the military junta has killed 176 women since the coup on February 1, 2021, in addition to 370 women wounded and 196 individuals unlawfully arrested and detained. The military has also murdered 48 children and injured 80 others. These statistics include HURFOM’s latest numbers, which found 15 women killed, 27 wounded, and 19 arbitrarily arrested. Additionally, seven were killed, and 13 suffered injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening. The military junta was the sole perpetrator of the crimes detailed in this report. 

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Junta’s regiment burns down houses and arrests villagers in Tenasserim

HURFOM: In the morning of November 23^rd, 2024, a junta’s regiment consisting of 80 troops based in Za Well village entered Pyin Won village, Tenasserim Township, Tenasserim Division. The regiment burnt down houses and arrested villagers, according to the locals and resistance forces.

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Mother and daughter injured by junta’s indiscriminate attack in Thane Za Yet

HURFOM: On November 22^nd, 2024, the 310^th artillery regiment based in Thane Za Yet launched an indiscriminate artillery attack on Thone Kwa village, Thane Za Yet Town, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State. The artillery shells dropped on a residential house and injured a mother and her daughter.

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Mawrawaddy Navy Command arrests and extorts Phaung Taw villager

HURFOM: On November 20^th, 2024, the Mawrawaddy Navy Command arrested 35-year-old Ko Aung Htwe from Phuang Taw village, Thel Chaung village tract, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division after accusing him of having connections with the People’s Defense Force.

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Two locals injured in shooting incident in R Yu Taung village

HURFOM: At approximately 9 am on November 23^rd, 2024, the “Ye Ba Lue” Group, an armed resistance group operating in Ye Township, Mon State, attacked members of the local militia group in R Yu Taung village, Ye Township.

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Junta arrests two local men while conducting census in Kaw Thaung

HURFOM: On November 20^th, 2024, the military junta arrested two local men, 50-year-old U Khin Oo and 38-year-old Ko Kyaw Soe, from Ye Twin Taung village, Kaw Thaung Township, Tenasserim Division while conducting the census in the village.

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Weekly Analysis: Military Junta Seeks to Illegally Advance Conscription Efforts Through Bribery and Extortion

HURFOM: The 2010 People’s Military Service Law is now being enforced for the first time since it was passed over a decade ago. In February 2024, the military junta unjustly ordered mandatory military service, requiring all men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27 to serve in the Myanmar Armed Forces for at least two years. The announcement met with immediate backlash and fear as young people felt apprehensive and uncertain. Nearly one year has passed since its implementation, and the impacts continue to be consequential.

In targeted areas of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), including Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi region, families are devastated as they have been separated from their loved ones who have been recruited to the battlefield while being forced to pay exorbitant rates of bribery and extortion to fund the conscription bid.

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Local man shot and killed in Kyike Hto

HURFOM: In the morning of November 20^th, 2024, 40-year-old U Chit Ko from War Dat Kwin village, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State was shot and killed at a rubber plantation located at the entrance of the village.  According to the local reports, U Chit Ko was shot in the head.

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