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Monks require hometown police recommendation making passport

Monks needing foreign passports a required to get a local police ‘character’ recommendation, said an abot in Rangoon.

This is a restriction on the monks, said the aboot. According to him, the order was given last month from Rangoon’s Embassy. Read more

Burmese regime force farmers to feed army

The Burmese Army is forcing farmers in Mon state to give newly harvested rice to soldiers. The Army is also pressuring farmers to grow groundnut this summer, farmers said.

The farmers, who have been harvesting since the end of December, are being stopped as they take the unhusked rice, known as paddy, from farms to their homes. Read more

Patients required to pay private clinics before receiving hospital treatment

Patients without referrals from doctors at private clinics are denied treatment at the public hospital in Mawlamyine.

Mi Soe, a woman from Thanbyuzayaut township, sent her son to a public hospital in Mawlamyine. When she arrived, nurses told her that if she did not have a signed patient registration from doctors her son would not be treated or allowed to stay. Read more

Forty villagers tortured for their possessions

About forty villagers in Mon State were violently assaulted by Burmese troops from Batallion No -299. The villagers were trying recover wood left in houses they had to abandon when the Burmese military forced them to relocate their village.

The villagers, including nineteen women, were from Bayoun-ngae village, in Khaw-zar Sub Township, Mon State. Read more

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