Junta’s troops torch six houses in Ye Chaung Pyar region

March 4, 2025

HURFOM: From February 27th to March 1st, 2025, the military junta’s troops burnt down six houses in Kan Hla village, Ye Chaung Pyar region, Ye Township, Mon State. The junta claims that armed revolutionary forces temporarily stayed at those houses.

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Junta plans to send undocumented persons in Thailand to conscription camps

March 3, 2025

HURFOM: On February 24th, 2025, 200 undocumented Burmese citizens who had served their prison terms in “Ya Noung Detention Camp” in Thailand were sent back to Kaw Thaung Town, Tenasserim Division, Burma.

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Military presence prevents nearly 500 displaced villagers from returning home

March 3, 2025

HURFOM: Although there has been no active armed conflict around Kyone Long (old) village, Ye Township, Mon State, junta troops have stationed themselves in the village preventing 456 displaced villagers from returning home.

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Monthly Overview: Targeting of Internally Displaced Persons, Including Women, Children and the Elderly, on the Rise in Southeastern Burma

March 3, 2025

Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State & Tanintharyi Region, February 2025

Over the past month, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has observed a concerning escalation in attacks on women and children. The worsening instability throughout Burma indicates that the junta has vastly underestimated the resistance it would encounter in its illegal and unlawful attempt to seize power. As the regime struggles on the battlefield, it has deployed retaliatory strategies that isolate and impact the most vulnerable. Women, children, and the elderly are being targeted in unprovoked airstrikes and indiscriminate attacks, as the junta aims to use violence as a tool of terror. 

At the beginning of the month, In Ye Township, Mon State, three women, including two internally displaced persons (IDPs), were injured when junta troops indiscriminately fired heavy artillery into Wapathae Village, Baelamu Village Tract, despite no active fighting in the area. On the night of January 24, troops from the Junta’s Artillery Regiment No. 317, based in Ye Township, launched five artillery shells into Wapathae Village. The shells exploded inside the village, injuring:

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Junta arrests two government staff and four business owners in Paung

February 28, 2025

HURFOM: On February 24th, 2025, troops from the 102nd Light Infantry Battalion arrested U Myat Ko Ko, the Chief of the Paung Township Fire Brigade, U Kyaw Myo Hline, the Vice Chief of the Paung Township General Administration Department, Ko Zar Ni, the owner of the “Taw Win” Dormitory, and three other business owners – Ko Moe Ngae, U Zaw Win Myint and Daw Kyaw Kyaw San.

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Transportation hardships prevent displaced villagers from receiving junta’s monetary support

February 27, 2025

HURFOM: On February 14th, 2025, in the State Hall, the Mon State Chief Minister, U Aung Kyi Thein claimed the military junta would support each displaced villager in Mon State, with monetary support in the amount of 20,000 MMK.

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Air assaults injure four villagers from Ah Nan Kwin village

February 27, 2025

HURFOM: On February 18th, 2025, the military junta launched an air assault on Ta Nyin village which is located near Ah Nan Kwin village, Kyarinnseikyi Township, Karen State.  The attack injured four villagers.

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Mother and son sustain injuries after stepping on landmine in Dawei

February 27, 2025

HURFOM: On February 25th, 2025, a mother and son – 43-year-old Daw Mar Lwin and 13-year-old Maung Yan Myo Myat from Wa Gone village, Dawei East Forest region, Dawei Township, Tenasserim Division stepped on a landmine while walking to their plantation.

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Junta tightens security and extorts plantation workers

February 26, 2025

HURFOM: In Kyone Long (old) village and Kwin Shay village, Ye Township, Mon State, the junta’s troops are imposing tight security measures targeting plantation workers.  Villagers reported to HURFOM that troops are also extorting huge amounts of money from people who failed to show their ID cards.

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Nearly 2,000 young men conscripted in military within a year in Mon State

February 26, 2025

HURFOM: From April, 2024 to January, 2025, the military junta organized ten “military training for conscripts” sessions, and forcefully recruited nearly 2,000 young conscripts in Mon State.

1,500 conscripts have finished their training and have been sent to conflict areas where there have been intense armed clashes, according to a military source.

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