Construction of Mon National College begins in December
November 28, 2022
HURFOM: December 26, 2022 is the golden jubilee of the Mon National Education Committee (MNEC) and the date will coincide with the ground breaking construction of the Mon National College.
The college will be located in the Nyi Sar Region which is controlled by the New Mon State Party (NMSP).
“The learning process must continue. It’s good to finish construction as quick as
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Fourth Week of November 2022
November 28, 2022
HURFOM: During the last week of November 2022 in Southeastern Burma, civilians were met with more devastation, fear and havoc by the military junta. The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has continued to document human rights violations in Mon State, Karen State and the Tanintharyi region. Civilians are being increasingly targeted as the Burma Army acts with no moral consciousness or concept of consequences. Soldiers lack humanity and an understanding of basic human rights norms, laws, and principles. Consequently, civilians are forced to face brutal assaults. Women, children, and the elderly are not sparred, nor are sacred sites such as religious places of worship (monasteries, churches, etc.).
On November 19, beginning at 5 AM, an estimated 120 junta soldiers from the Costal Regiment Command, based along the Dawei to Htee-Khee highway motorway, indiscriminately fired several mortar shells at the village located beside the highway. Due to these cruel armed attacks launched by the Junta forces, at least two villagers were injured, and more than ten houses were destroyed, according to sources on the ground.
Hundreds of villagers from three villages located in the areas, such as the village from Thingan-Ton, Wa Kone, and Leik-Kyae-Pyaung, were forced to flee the artillery attacks. Villagers said that in Wakone, the Burma Army ransacked the road with artillery weapons and occupied the areas.
One villager described the scene as ‘bullets falling like rainfall.” They continued, “It seems like the junta troops attempted to fire everywhere because they believed that the soldiers of the People’s Defense Forces were located in our villages.” Two young men, Myo Nyunt and Ko Myo, working on betel nut plantations near Wakone village, were hit by artillery shells and injured in their backs and neck.
A resident from Leik-Kyae-Pyaung village said that the junta forces opened fire with heavy weapons, entered their village, broke the ownerless houses, raided at least ten places, and stole food and clothes. Only two weeks ago, more than 30 houses in Wakone village were broken down, and their belongings and materials were stolen.
Young people are being subjected to ongoing arrests, and unlawful detainment as the Burma Army carries out its campaign of fear and terror. Since November 19, eight youths have been abducted in a series of raids and search operations of suspected organizers of the ongoing silence strikes by the junta forces in Dawei District.
Family members of those arrested complained that because they captured the suspects without specific information, irrelevant people were affected. On November 20, Ma Khin Lay Nwe, a young woman, age 26, was arrested by the military intelligence and police forces. Her family maintains her innocence, saying she has opened a beauty shop in her home. A witness, age 30, told HURFOM in light of all the arrests, he suspects the military has not been successful in finding those responsible for planning and organizing the silence strikes. HURFOM confirmed that those who were forcibly arrested are still being detained at the Long Lon police station. Families believed these young detainees were tortured by the polices and jail authorities while interrogated.
The junta has also not hesitated to shoot with intent to kill. On 20 November, around 2 PM in Long Lon township, the Burma Army was inspecting pedestrians in front of the Public Hospital in Long Lon, when they opened fire on two young men on a motorcycle. One of them was seriously injured in his back. The other was caught and arrested. In that incident, the junta forces shot at two other innocent teenagers walking on the road. The two victims are siblings from Tha-byar Village; residents stated that 15-year-old Maung Wei Yan Aung died from a gunshot wound at the hospital.
These attacks are further evidence of the impunity of the military junta.
Two killed, ten injured, and 2,000 flee due to armed clash in Taung Kalay
November 23, 2022
HURFOM: On November 21, 2022, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) attacked the Taung Kalay Police Station in Taung Kalay village, located in Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State.
The Light Infantry Battalion #208 was based in the police station.
In response to the attack, the military junta launched air assaults targeting the Taung Kalay village. In addition, the Artillery Battalion in A-Bit village, based in Mudon Township used heavy weapons targeting locations nearby the police station.
Read moreSecurity forces harass and verbally abuse women at checkpoints in Kan Bauk
November 21, 2022
HURFOM: Since the February 2021 coup, the military junta has increasingly established checkpoints in the Kan Bauk region of Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division. Security forces have routinely been harassing and verbally abusing women who cross these checkpoints, local sources.
The security forces stop women and ask for their phone numbers and Facebook accounts details, and they also verbally abuse them.
Read moreBurmese military arrested villagers and use them to serve as porters
November 21, 2022
HURFOM: On November 15, 2022, there was a major armed clash between the Burmese military and the combined units of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People’s Defense Force (PDF) near Lut Shan village, Kyarinnseikyi Township, Karen State.
After the incident, the military arrested rubber plantation workers and forced them to serve as porters, according to a local source.
Read moreWeekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State, and Tanintharyi Region
Third Week of November 2022
November 21, 2022
HURFOM: Across the last week of November, civilians in Myanmar, particularly Southeastern Burma, were met with more violence and lawlessness perpetrated by the military junta. Soldiers who adhere to commands to assault civilians and disregard their fundamental freedoms are complicit in the demise of prospects for democracy in the country. Victims of the military’s brutal offensives know that there cannot be peace as long as weapons threaten their survival.
Read moreJunta tightens security and extorts workers in Hnit Karen and Wel Kha Mi
November 17, 2022
HURFOM: Since early November, 2022, armed clashes between the Burmese military and the People Defense Forces (PDF) have happened nearly everyday in the Hnit Karen and Wel Kha Mi villages, located in Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State.
The military junta has tightened its security presence in the area and built a police base and a checkpoint in Wel Kha Mi village.
Read moreJunta kills individual for failure to stop at Chaung Hna Khwa Bridge Gate checkpoint
November 17, 2022
HURFOM: On November 12, 2022, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) jointly attacked, occupied and destroyed the police station in Chaung Hna Khwa village, located in Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State.
The military junta immediately banned use of the Chaung Hna Bridge leading into the village. However, the next day, November 13, the junta allowed people to use the bridge again.
Read moreJunta’s artillery attack injures an adult and a child in Khaw Zar
November 14, 2022
HURFOM: On November 4, 2022, an armed clash between local battalion LIB #31 and an unknown armed group took place at Myo Hong Ward, Khaw Zar Town, Ye Township, Mon State.
The military randomly shot heavy weapons into residential areas and one artillery shell injured a 63-year-old man and a ten-year-old child.
Read moreUnknown armed group extorts villagers in Khaw Zar, Southern Ye Township
November 14, 2022
HURFOM: A villager from Khaw Zar Town, Southern Ye Township, Mon State was extorted by an unknown, armed group a week ago.
Armed groups usually extort money from drug dealers, but in this case the victim is a schoolteacher with the Mon National School in Khaw Zar.
“It’s unacceptable to extort money from a Mon national schoolteacher,” said a Khaw Zar villager who prefers to be anonymous.
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