Mon woman was raped by two migrant workers in Thanpyuzayat

May 2, 2008

WCRP:

Mi Son (not real name), sixteen years old was raped by a Burman man who migrate from upper Burma for getting hire work in the garden of  Thanpyuzayat Town Mon State.
 
On 24.2.2008 evening, two Burman men raped her on the way she returning home from the garden in Thanpyuzayat. They blocked and pulled down her bicycle and kicked her two times and raped her. Read more

Child killed after eating castor oil seeds from plant cultivated under regime orders

May 2, 2008

WCRP:

A child in Hongsawatoi Ward, Thanpyuzayat Town, was killed after eating over fifty castor-oil seeds in December 2007, his neighbors recently reported to a Woman and Child Rights Project field reporter. In January, two other children were also hospitalized in nearby Wait Rat village.

The two children, ages eleven and twelve, are studying in standard three. The two were playing near a motor road along which rows of castor-oil trees have been planted, and each ate about thirty seeds. They soon became sick and, after throwing up, were taken to the Thanpyuzayat hospital by their parents. Read more

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