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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

American Specialist Children’s Hospital in Mawlamyine Overflowing with Patients

WCRP: More children in Mon State are getting sick this year than last year and hospitals are struggling to keep up. The American Specialist Children’s Hospital in Mawlamyine was full in May. Since June, patients have been sharing beds and sleeping on the floor. The hospital, which mainly treats children from the Thanphyuzayart area, has two hundred and fifteen beds. Read more

Cultivators and local inhabitants face threat to livelihood and life after LIB No. 273 bans travel outside villages in northern Tenasserim Division:

HURFOM, Yebu Township,Tenasserim Division:

Villages in Yebyu Township are facing harsh 24 hr travel restrictions outside of their villages due to a joint emergency order issued by two SPDC military commands’ over the presence of armed splinter groups in the area. Famers have been banned from traveling to their farms outside the village. Local residents may face serious threats to their livelihood and economic capacity if travel restrictions continue. Read more

HIV child hopes for the future

Chan Chan, WCRP

“I don’t want to take a lot of medicine. It is very boring. I just want to be the same as the other children. They don’t have to take medicine like me,” said Mi Saw, a Mon child who lives in the Safe House run by the Thailand-Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), near Huay Malai in Kanchnaburi province, Thailand.

Mi Saw* is 13-years-old and HIV positive. She lived in Halockanee, an Internally Displaced Person’s (IDP) resettlement site, on the Burmese side of the Thai-Burma border with her mother and father before moving to the Safe House. Her parents were diagnosed with AIDS when she was 5-years-old. Her mother died first and Mi Saw was left to care for her ailing father. Read more

SPDC continues systematized abuse of villager’s vehicles in Yebyu Township

HURFOM, Lort Taing village-track, Yebyu Township

Soldiers from the SPDC have been seizing vehicles from Yebyu Township villagers for their personal use, without compensation or regard for the treatment of the vehicles.  This practice, which has occurred for 10 years, has slowly increased in severity as demands for vehicles have become more presumptuous.  A shocking indicator of this abuse to personal property is that for many locals it is almost normalized, with an expectation that this practice is normal. Read more

Series of extortion and labor demands by SPDC, DKBA and KPF hits Kawkareik Township economy

HURFOM, Kawkareik: At least 9 villages in Kawkareik Township, Karen State, have been subject to a barrage of taxation and supply demands from forces belonging to a variety of Burmese government and allied forces in early June. These combined demands have in most instances required villages to pay over 100,000 kyat in the space of days. Additionally in some cases villagers were forced to perform labor without compensation and had to pay individual political support fees to a government party. Read more

We all must suffer: Documentation of continued abuses during Kanbuak to Mayingkalay pipeline ruptures

Introduction

The Kanbauk to Mayingkalaly gas pipeline has been in operation for nearly 10 years, and continues to be the direct motivating factor for human rights abuses committed by Burmese military battalions that inundate the area. In addition, despite the operational status of the pipeline, villages and farms abutting the pipeline continue to be haunted by lasting effects of poor construction, technology, and a lack of interest on the part of the current junta in persevering the environment, or the lives and wellbeing, of local residents.
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Generals’ Road Map to Power after the Elections

Although the regime is allowing non-regime sponsored political parties to form for the 2010 elections, the Generals already have their grip on power through its main power base political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). All the leaders in this new party are SPDC generals, and is based from a well-known regime controlled social organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), which claims it has 20 million members countrywide. Read more

SPDC fines villagers for digging bomb-shelters for their security in Kyainnsekyi Township

HURFOM, Anan Kwin: Villagers have been digging bomb shelters for protection against the increasingly frequent skirmishes between the Burmese State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) forces. However according to the local SPDC commander the presence of these shelters destabilizes the community and has issued harsh fines and threats of forced portering for families who already have built or will built, shelters to improve their security. Read more

the woeful plight of undesired gas pipeline

In November 2000 the Burmese military government began construction on the 180 miles KanBauk-MyaingKalay gas pipeline across Burma’s Sothern peninsula.

Construction of the pipeline led to the militarization of the area. Subsequently extensive human rights violations are committed by soldiers including forced labor, arbitrary taxation, rape and even summary execution.

The military regime is the sole beneficiary of gas sales from the pipeline that passes through varied terrains and ethnic regions. The pipeline ultimately supplies gas to a concrete manufacturing plant in Mayaing Kalay and electricity turbine in Rangoon.

Though completed, the pipelines presence continues as the locus of human rights abuses committed by local military battalions.

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