Drop out rate increases due to high tuition fees in Mon State
June 8, 2023
HURFOM: High tuition fees, and other school associated costs including basic commodities which have been on the rise have led some students to drop out of school due to financial hardship.
Tuition, dormitory fees, food and other associated costs for a single academic year, cost between three to six million Kyat. Some parents are unable to pay for these costs for their children.
Read moreEastern Dawei IDPs face food shortages and numbers increase
June 8, 2023
HURFOM: Both local residents and internally displaced people living in Dawei’s east district are now facing food and water shortages due to strict control of rice and food stuffs by junta forces.
From the end of April until the beginning of June, more than 5,000 refugees from 12 villages have been trapped in Dawei East District, due to a junta council’s offensive and continuous targeting of the locals.
Read moreLIB 401 kills a mentally ill villager for no reason in Ka Lane Aung
June 7, 2023
HURFOM: On June 1st, 2023, the 410th Light Infantry Battalion based in Ka Lane Aung Township, Dawei District, killed a male villager with a gun for no reason.
According to local residents, the man shot by the junta military was Ko Naing Oo. He was 35 years old, and suffered from a mental disorder. He recently settled in Ka Lane Aung having come from Ye Township in Mon State.
Read moreMilitary junta kills villagers and burns down houses in East Dawei
June 7, 2023
HURFOM: Junta forces shot and killed 3 residents living at an internally displaced people’s re-settlement site. A man, a child, and the mother from the village were shot by soldiers patrolling the site.
The arrival of the junta soldiers caused residents to flee. One resident is still missing.
Read moreArtillery attacks force residents from three villages to flee homes in Thaton
June 7, 2023
HURFOM: On June 4, 2023, the military junta launched artillery attacks targeting the area controlled by the 1st Brigade of the Karen National Liberation Army in Thaton Township, Mon State.
Residents from three villages in the area had to flee their homes.
Read moreTwo men traveling by boat shot by junta’s soldiers, one died
June 7, 2023
HURFOM: Two male villagers who were traveling in a small boat on the Tenasserim river were shot by junta forces, on June 3 at about 3pm. One man died.
The two victims were going from Nyaung Pin Gone village to the old Kanto village. Ko Aung Kyaw, thought to be approximately 30 years old, was hit by the shot and fell into the water.
Read moreJunta’s artillery attack injures six in Kyaik Hto
June 6, 2023
HURFOM: According to local residents, at least 6 people, including a 6-year-old child, were injured when artillery shells exploded after hitting a house in Hle Lan Kuu village, Kyaik Hto township, Mon State.
Local observers noted that the attack was perpetrated by the 402nd artillery unit based in Thaton.
Read moreOne monk and three civilians including a child, killed in Kyarinnseikyi armed clash
June 6, 2023
HURFOM: On June 2, 2023, there was an intense armed clash between the military junta and the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army and the People Defense Forces in Kyarinnseikyi Town, Karen State.
One monk and three civilians were killed, according to a report from local rescue teams.
“The armed clash went on for nearly three hours, from 5 am to 8 am. The junta launched both artillery and air assaults,” said a Kyarinnseikyi resident.
Read moreTwo civilians killed and two injured in armed clash at Done Tha Me Bridge
June 6, 2023
HURFOM: On June 1, 2023, an armed clash took place between Burmese soldiers and the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army and the People Defense Forces at the check-point nearby Done Tha Me Bridge on the border of Mon and Karen States.
Read moreJunta’s indiscriminate artillery attacks continue to kill and create more civilian casualties
June 6, 2023
HURFOM: Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has a network field reporters that have documented another resident killed as result of the junta’s use of artillery weapons on civilians.
The 591st Infantry Battalion (IB) which operates under the 19th Military Operation Management Command MOMC used these weapons in Kyarinseikyi, township, Karen State.
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