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NGOs aid 14 year-old rape victim in Mae Sot

WCRP, Mae Sot: Phyi Thu Saythana and World Vision, two Mae Sot-based NGOs, are providing for the legal services, shelter, and education of a 14-year-old Mon child raped by her stepfather 2 months ago. Read more

National Politics Party, NUP and USDA Start a Secret Campaign for 2010 Elections

Unsurprisingly, Burma’s 2010 elections will not be free and fair, even though the ruling military government has yet to announce any restrictive or biased election laws, elections processes, or political party formation laws.  The SPDC has already privileged the secret campaigns of certain military commanders, the National Politics Party (NPP), and other SPDC-supporting political groups like the National Unity Party (NUP), and the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA). Read more

“I am very tired”: Three months of abuses along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline in Northern Ye and Southern Thanbyuzayat Township, from August 2009 to October 2009

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Much has been written on the human rights abuses leveled by the Burmese Army against the Karen and Mon villagers who live along the gas pipeline that runs through the Mon state from Kanbauk, in  northern Ye Township, to Myaing Kalay, in the Southern Thanbyuzayat Township. In recent months, however, ongoing abuse inflicted by Burmese army battalions against the villagers has intensified.  The presence of Burmese Army battalions in the area has plagued the villagers for more than 15 years. Since 1994, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) has deployed 20 army battalions in the area as a means of protecting the Yadana pipeline — the second natural gas pipeline that runs through the area — from rebel attacks. Various armed rebel groups exist in the area, including the KNU, the KNLA, and an unnamed, 30 –strong ragtag Mon splinter group.
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DKBA Extorts Money and Food Supplies from Karen State Villagers

HURFOM: On September 9, 2009, The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA)’s Battalion No. 906 under Captain Ye Myint, based in Dagon Taing village in Kawkareik District, Karen State, asked the residents of nearby village Kwankataung to collectively give the battalion 57 baskets of rice. Kwankataung village is located between Kyainnseikyi Town and Dagon Taing village, east of the Winyaw river. Read more

Villages in Kyaikmayaw Township forced to contribute money towards castor bean mill

HURFOM, Kyaikmayaw: According to a HURFOM field reporter, the Kyaikmayaw Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) has commanded that 9 villages in Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State, each contribute 500,000 kyat towards the purchase of a castor bean grinder and the construction of a castor bean mill, to be set up in the area as the next step in the Burmese government’s nascent biodiesel production project. Read more

Myawaddy residents caught in clash over rice contributions

HURFOM, Kawkareik: Residents of Myawaddy Township in Kawkareik District, Karen State, have been caught in a confrontation between the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and the Karen National Union (KNU) over rice stores collected from villagers Read more

14-year-old girl still missing in Pattani, Thailand

WCRP: A fourteen-year-old Mon girl named Mi Mar Win (name changed for security purposes), from the city of Pattani in Thailand’s Pattani Province, has been missing since October 3rd, the girl’s cousin claims. Mi Mar Win migrated with her family to Pattani from Ye Township in Burma. Read more

Residents restricted to villages in Tenasserim Division

HURFOM: HURFOM’s sources report that for the last two months, a number of villages in Tenasserim Division have endured confinement, extortion, and looting at the hands of the Burmese Army’s Light Infantry Battalions (LIB) No. 273 and No. 282,and the Infantry Battalion (IB) No. 31.   Read more

Militia recruitments ordered in North Tenasserim Division

HURFOM, Yebyu: Residents of Yebyu Township in North Tenasserim Division fear that recent orders from the Burmese Army to the local militias, ordering renewed militia recruitments in various villages in the Township, will increase the fees that local militias routinely extort from civilian villagers. Read more

Military increasing in Ye Township

HURFOM, Ye: Starting in the 3rd week of September of this year, the Burmese military authorities have begun actively recruiting from villages in Ye Township, Mons state, in order to increase the number of security officers, local militia, and policemen’s troops in the area. Read more

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