• Home
• about
• Activities
• Contact
• Programs
• Manual

• Analysis
• Commentary
• Feature
• General Election
• Monthly Report
• News
• PDF Format
• Special Report
• Video Clips

Subscribe

Gas pipeline blast burns rubber plantation

Sat 19 May 2007
Fri 23 Mar 2007, HURFOM
The bane of people in Mon State, the Burmese military junta’s unsafe gas pipeline, from Kanbauk- Myaingkalay (Yadana Gas Pipeline) has exploded yet again, destroying 150 plants in an acre of rubber plantation seven miles from Ye Town.

An eye witness said, about 150 plants which have already produced rubber sap were incinerated and the plants surrounding these turned brown due to the fire when the pipe broke at a joint of two sections and exploded. Read more

Burma Army Major goes on the rampage with gun in Ye Township

HURFOM

An inebriated and trigger happy Maj Aung Naing Win, sub battalion commander of No.586 battalion of the Burmese Army, fired from his gun creating panic among the people at the funeral of a monk in Ye Township.

According to a source the Major not only fired but also flayed his fists at the village headman without any reason. He also scared two women by following them in a drunken state. Read more

Authorities force Buddhist teachings in Burmese instead of Mon

Mon 07 May 2007
HURFOM
 A reading session of Buddhist teachings (Damma Jark) in Mon language was forcibly changed into Burmese by military authorities in Khaw-Zar town, Southern Mon state recently.

“Almost everything was changed including the title. We were ordered to change it into Burmese. We have been reading Buddhist teachings (Damma Jark) for a couple of years, but this is the first time we were forced to change the signboard title,” a monk explained. Read more

Mon people face hard labor in military development projects.

Human Rights News Report

More than one hundred Mon civilians in southern Mon State have been forced to work for multiple development projects for three weeks of each month. Most of the civilians have been conscripted to work on bridge constructions. The civilians are forced to do labour on 46 bridges, which includes large and small bridges all along the way along the main road from Ye township to Kaw Zar sub town.

Alongside reports of forced labour there have also been reports of the military increasing the transportation of military equipment to their battalion in Kaw Zar. The development of bridges makes access possible for the transportation of army stuff to their artillery battalion in Kaw Zar sub-town. Read more

Ongoing forced labor usage on SPDC?s development projects in Southern Mon State

HURFOM,Khaw-Zar Sub Township, Southern Ye Township

Since the end of January, 2007, the local residents from Khaw-Zar Sub Township, Mon State have been forced to work as unpaid laborers on bridge constructions along the Ye-Tavoy motor road by SPDC?s Infantry Battalion No. 31 based near Khaw-Zar Sub Town. With the cooperation of the local Township?s administration groups, the commander of the local Infantry Battalion coordinated two groups of unpaid laborers and demanded each group be made up of 15 people that must include some local carpenters from the villages under the Khaw-Zar Sub Township. Read more

Ye township authority extorted Money from local Mon villager

HURFOM

On January 28th, 2007 U Kyaw Thu Hlaing, an officer from the Public Levy Collection department of Ye Township?s Municipal Authorities extorted house levies from Ayu-Taung village residents, Northern Ye Township, Mon State.

It was reported that on the morning of January 28, 2007, that Ye Township?s municipal officer U Kyaw Thu Hlaing and his troops took photograph of the villager?s houses and afterwards demanded money as home levies from the local residents of 70 households. Read more

New crack down on unregistered motorbikes by new capital’s army

HURFOM

On March 8th, 2007, by the instruction of the new capital’s authorities, the Burmese Army continued its crackdown on unregistered motorbikes in the townships of Mudon and Thanbyuzayat in Mon state, seizing at lease 50 motorbikes , according to a Mon Human Rights Worker.

It was reported that the seizures of so-called unregistered motorcycles have started from An-Khae village, about 16 miles from Thanbyuzayat town . The seizures occurred during An-Khae village Pagoda’s festival on the night of March 8th. Read more

Army Punished Civilian for Bullets Costs

HURFOM

Eight civilians were forced to pay 280,000 kyat for the replacement of bullets after Burmese soldiers from IB No. 31 shot skyward to scare children from Kabya Wa village, Ye Township, Mon State.

Earlier that day Burmese migrants reported seeing Mon rebels swimming in the river close to the gardens, they informed the Burmese soldier Major Kyaw Zay Ya. Read more

Local residents were forced to provide timber to army brick factory

HURFOM

Since the first week of January 2007, Local inhabitants from Khaw-za Sub Township, Mon state, southern Burma are being forced by the Burmese Army to provide timber/woods for a local military?s brick factory.

The commander, Major Kyaw Zay Ya who was locally known as Bo Ba Lay of Infantry Battalion No. 31 directed township people to arrange for timber for the brick factory at the end of last year.

Now local people are collecting wood for the factory which makes bricks as part of the many business ventures that the army runs. Read more

Women were forced to patrol the village in Southern Ye Township

HURFOM,Yin-Ye, Toe-That-Ywa-Thit village, Southern Ye Township, Mon State

Recently, Major Kyaw Zay Ya, the commander of the Burmese Infantry battalion No. 31 which based near Khaw Zar Sub Town ordered all villager including women to patrol the villages in Yin-Yae, Singu and Toe-Tat-Ywa-Thit villages, Khaw Zar Sub Township, Southen Ye township, Mon State.

According to Nai Aung Tun, 33 years old paddy farmer from Singu village, ?The order reached this village since two week ago. Our village administration group said this emergency village sentry ordered was instructed by Bo Ba Lay (known as IB No. 31 commander Major Kyaw Zay Ya). Each family need to take care village at lease one night per week s. If there are no men in the household, women have to complete the duty. Read more

« Previous Page — Next Page »