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SPDC soldiers arbitrarily shoot villager and boy

HURFOM, Pegu Division: An SPDC column recently relocated to a new patrol zone in Kyauk Kyi Township shot a villager tending his cattle in a field with no apparent warning or justification. Besides killing the villager, a boy was also injured and is receiving treatment. This comes as the 12th outright execution of a resident by SPDC battalions in Kyauk Kyi Township since the start of 2010. Read more

SPDC Battalion uses forced porters as human shield against land mines and further attack

HURFOM, Kyarinnseikyi: As a consequence of the increasing skirmishes between SPDC and KNLA forces in the southern part of Karen State, villagers have been subjected to several incidents of forced portering by SPDC units.  After several engagements, villagers were pressed into portering service by SPDC soldiers in apparent retribution for the KNLA assaults. In multiple instances these civilian porters were intentionally used by SPDC as human shields to protect the advancing columns from additional assaults or the presence of landmines along the road. Read more

“They think we are not human”: Strategic abuses threaten local economy

Summary

This month the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) documents the perpetuation of human rights violations by the State Peace and Development Councilís (SPDCís) army units that are reminiscent of the previous anti-insurgent ë4-cutsí policy. Despite the supposed discontinuation of these systematized abuses, research clearly indicates that these violations are continually put in use to target ethnic groups located in the southern part of Mon State and northern part of Tenasserin Division.

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Ceasefire Concern, Security tightened in Gas Pipeline Areas

HURFOM: The situation in the southern part of Mon State has become increasingly unstable as senior SPDC military leadership has applied pressure to the New Mon State Party (NMSP) to reduce its armed wing, the Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA), into becoming a subservient border guard force or militia force. Tension increased within the NMSP after an April 22nd meeting in which a top SPDC commander invoked, for the 1st time since its formation, terms suggesting the “return to a pre-ceasefire relationship”. Read more