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

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

Subscribe

All Ages Amphetamine Use on the Increase in Mon State

HURFOM:

The origins of the recent influx of amphetamines into Sanghklaburi are unknown and widely debated; the Mon people claim the pills are Karen in derivation while the Karen point the finger at the Mon. A third contender is the Burmese officials, who most people agree have a hand in the illegal trade in some way. Thus the question of amphetamine production is a complex one, and it is not confined to the illegal trade category, with widespread use becoming more commonplace inside Burma. Read more

Referendum 2008; Burma’s Road to a False Democracy

SPDC announce 92.4% approval for the constitution

Introduction

Under 46-years of military rule the people of Burma have had to live with near-constant intimidation and oppression leading to adversity politically, economically and socially. These people live in fear of the government’s intelligence and cannot speak freely. Ethnic minorities are ignored or marginalized by forced relocations and guerilla fighting. People are imprisoned for daring to challenge or question a highly suspicious and edgy government. Read more

NMSP Make Second Amphetamines Arrest

By Lawi Weng:

Over 3,000 amphetamines were seized and a smuggler arrested by the New Mon State Party (NMSP) near Three Pagodas Pass on the Thai-Burma border on Friday evening, according to source from NMSP.

Saw Moe Win, 38 years old, is from the Karen ethnic minority. According to the NMSP, the amphetamines were linked with the activities of the armed ceasefire group Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA). Read more

Pre-vote Under Control of Mon Ceasefire Group

HURFOM:

In the lead up to the May 10 referendum, pre-vote boxes were sent to New Mon State Party (NMSP) controlled areas yesterday, according to a NMSP officer in Halockani camp.

The pre-voting period will conclude by May 10, in line with the Three Pagodas Pass Vote Commission instructions to the NMSP. Read more

Rice prices rise 25% in Three Pagoda Pass

HURFOM:

Rice prices have risen twenty-five percent in Three Pagoda Pass on the Thai-Burma border.

Two weeks ago a 60 kilogram bag cost 820 baht. Today, the price is 1030 baht.

While much of South East Asia is facing a rice shortage, unseasonably early rains have made the roads along which new supplies of rice must travel to Three Pagoda Pass impassable. The early rains caught some traders by surprise, and they have not had sufficient stocks to handle the supply disruption. Read more

Villagers forced to guard pipeline as referendum approaches

By HUFROM:

Villagers in Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State, are being forced to guard a section of the Kal Bauk to Myine Kalay gas pipeline in response to rumors that ethnic rebels will bomb the pipeline during a national referendum, scheduled for May 10th.

Recent rains have destroyed fences and removed soil, exposing previously protected sections of the pipeline. Burmese Army Infantry Battalion No. 6 has ordered shifts of three villagers to guard sections of the pipeline, day and night. The civilian guards are not paid, must provide their own food and water and have also been ordered to repair fences along the pipeline. Read more

Mon woman was raped by two migrant workers in Thanpyuzayat

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

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

Mon woman, working in Samut Sakorn, raped by six men

WCRP

A sixteen-year-old Mon woman was raped and left for dead by a gang of six men in Maharchai, Samut Sakorn Province, Southern Thailand, reports her uncle, who recently spoke with a Mon human rights worker on the Thai-Burma border. In the early morning of March 29th, four men grabbed the girl and threw her into a car as she and another woman left a shop after buying food. The four men bound her with rope and beat her until she lost consciousness. They, along with two friends who were waiting outside of town, then raped her and left in the bushes, thinking her to be dead. Read more

Current Draft Constitution Does Not Move to National Reconciliation

THE MON FORUM

In May, the SPDC will hold the “People’s Referendum,” to give approve its draft Constitution, which gives ultimate power to the armed forces. The Burmese Army will absolutely control the State powers – legislative, administrative and judicial.

Even if the Constitution is confirmed by manipulation of the SPDC, and without international monitoring, democracy will not be alive in Burma. Over a thousand of political prisoners will remain in prisons and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be kept under house arrest. Read more

« Previous Page — Next Page »