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Regime still fails to improve human rights before the 2010 election

Although the Burmese military regime is planning to register new political parties and hold elections in 2010, it has made no concrete progress or plan to improve the human rights in the country.

Just recently, the United Nations Human Rights Special Rapporteur visited Burma to learn about the human rights situation. After the visit, he announced that there has been no improvement. Arbitrary arrest, detention of political and social activities, forced labor and forced relocations in rural ethnic areas all still continue. Read more

Government-appointed headman stealing resources meant for school repairs

HURFOM: Since January U Aung Zaw Moe, a headman from Kaloh Tort village, Mudon Township, Mon State, has collected money from every student household in the village to improve the village middle school.

In the last three months Major General That Ning Win has donated 200 bags of cement to improve the school but the headman has sold them and all the money has been spent for his personal use. When the orders came to improve the school, he ordered teachers in the village to collect money from the students’ homes. Read more

Villagers forced to pay for concert

HURFOM: Mudon Town, Doung Pa, Kamarwat, Hnee Pa Daw

Villagers in Mudon are being forced to foot the bill for a concert by a famous Burmeses-language singer. Tickets are not selling voluntarily, say local sources, because of Mon State’s plummeting economy.

In the first week of February, the Mudon Township Peace and Development Council (PDC) held a meeting with officials from village PDCs and informed them that they would be required to pay for the concert. According to local sources, village PDCs in Mudon Town and at least two other villages have subsequently been requiring villagers to cover the cost of the tickets. Read more

People will be forced to support SPDC parties in 2010 Elections

In Mon State and other parts of Burma, the local authorities from the ruling military regime have started ‘public relations’ activities to encourage the people to support government-supported political parties in coming 2010 Elections. Read more

Living between two fires: villager opinions on armed insurgency

I. Introduction

The mountains and thick jungle of the area between Mon State’s southern Ye Township and northern Yebyu District in northern Tenasserim Division make it an ideal staging ground for armed rebels. Burma’s State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) government’s desire to fully control the countryside – a desire strengthened by the proximity of gas pipelines – have lead to intense militarization of countryside as the government fights to pacify the area. The high concentration of SPDC battalions and the scorched earth tactics they employ in their operations against rebels means that the area is consistently the site of the worst human rights violations on Burma’s southern peninsula.
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11 villagers remain detained after Karen rebel steals gun from army

HURFOM: Eleven villagers are being detained as Burmese soldiers attempt to retrieve a pistol stolen by a Karen rebel in Lamine Township, Mon State.

In the second week of January, Military Operations Management Command No. 19, lead by military column commander Khin Maung Cho, arrested eleven villagers from Kanine Ka Moke village Lamine Township, Mon State.  Read more

Villagers forced to provide porters for Burmese army in Karen State

HURFOM: Eleven villages in Karen state have been forced provide unpaid porters for the Burmese army, says a HURFOM field reporter in the area.

On January 1st Column No. 2 of Light Infantry Battalion No. 284, lead by captain Myo Zet Tun and Infantry Battalion No. 548 ordered every village to provide 15 men to carry supplies. The porters were required to bring food, munitions and other materials from Ah Zin to Mae Ka Tee, a distance of about 5 kilometers. The men were required to work from January 4 to 13th, without a day of rest. Read more

Three villagers killed after they defy a forced relocation order in Tenasserim Division

HURFOM: The Burmese army has killed two teenagers and the former headman of Amae village after residents defied military orders and returned to the village, from which they had been forced to leave in November.

On November 11th, 60 households were forced to leave Amae village, Tenasserim Division, by soldiers from Infantry Battalion (IB) No. 107. Residents were told to leave immediately, and had to leave behind the majority of their belongings and the building materials in their homes, as well as their farms and plantations. Read more

10-year-old girl raped by ex-soldier in Ye Township

WCRP: A ten-year-old girl in Han Gan village, Ye Township, was raped by an ex-soldier in December. The ex-soldier is under arrest after he escaped and was re-captured at the railway station in Ye Town.

The victim was staying at the perpetrator’s house along with approximately 50 other students attending evening tutoring sessions with his wife. On December 14th, the wife left to visit her parents in Moulmein. The children, unsure of whether she would return in time for the lesson, came to the home anyway to study and then sleep. Read more

Police harassing Mon women legally working in Thailand

WCRP: Thai police or men posing as Thai police are harassing migrant workers from Burma, say workers in Mahachi, Samut Sakorn Province, Thailand. Workers are arrested, sexually assaulted and made to pay bribes for their release regardless of whether they have visas or work permits. Read more

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