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Farmers describe discrimination and corruption in land compensation schemes

HURFOM: Last week HURFOM reported on exploitative land grabs committed by domestic companies seeking to establish cement production in the region around Kyiakmayaw Township in Mon State. Since then, new accounts have surfaced alleging additional discrimination by Pacific Link Cement Industries Ltd. and June Industry Co. Ltd. against farmers deemed by the companies to have lower levels of education, insufficient awareness of their legal rights, or lacking the benefit of personal ties to local authorities. Read more

Gunshot from Burmese soldier in Kyauk Kadin alarms villagers

HURFOM: After a single shot was allegedly fired by a Burmese soldier at a construction worker in Kyauk Kadin, residents reported staying close to home and avoiding travel to their plantation jobs due to the brief but violent outburst. Local people were dismayed by the sound they said they had not heard since the country initiated a series of reforms and the union government signed ceasefire agreements with local armed ethnic groups. Read more

Land confiscations in Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State

Mon Human Rights Foundation of Monland

Introduction

In recent months the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has been surveying on-going cases of land confiscation in Mon areas as well as attempts by farmers to seek justice for past confiscations.  With a full report soon to be published detailing the status of these issues, the short report here offers a preliminary account of one of the more prominent cases of land confiscation encountered in the regions surveyed. Read more

Border communities struggle as monsoon floodwaters rise and recede

WCRP: As a week of heavy downpours and severe flooding that displaced thousands of people in southeastern Burma concludes, a number of news outlets continue to cover the scale of the crisis and the related humanitarian responses. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 33,409 people in Karen State have been displaced due to flooding, while Agence France-Presse reported on August 2 that 4,700 people in neighboring Mon State were temporarily without homes. But much of the media coverage and relief assistance has not penetrated the smaller, remote, and more inaccessible border communities also inundated by rain, and only now are reports from these less publicized areas beginning to seep out. Read more

Unrest continues following Tenasserim Division clash

HURFOM: Villagers remain uprooted from their homes following violence between Burmese military and New Mon State Party (NMSP) soldiers in Tenasserim Region’s Thu Mingalan village. With no resolution yet found between the two sides, and NMSP soldiers still being held hostage, there are worries that the conflict may be reignited in the displaced NMSP troop’s new location. Read more