Three children die from drowning in Mawlamyine flood
July 21, 2023
HURFOM: On July 19, 2023, Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State, flooded due to continuous and heavy rain. Three children drowned in the flood, according to a Mawlamyine rescue team.
Read moreJunta arrests 15 villagers and uses them as human shields
July 19, 2023
HURFOM: On July 15, 2023, about 120 members of the military junta entered Na Bu Lae region, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division and arrested 15 workers from a plantation near Ka Det Eye village.
Local sources reported to HURFOM that the military then used them as human shields for a military operation.
Read moreTwo killed and nearly twenty arrested in Kha Lae – Da Gon Die armed clash
July 19, 2023
HURFOM: On July 14, 2023, the military junta and the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) had a heavy armed clash in Kha Lae – Da Gon Die area, Kyarinnseikyi Township, Karen State.
Read moreCivilian killed in Kyike Hto armed clash
July 19, 2023
HURFOM: On the morning of July 16, 2023, an armed clash took place between the military junta and the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) near Zee Gone village, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State.
Read moreMon State has 600 dengue fever patients: Two die of the disease
July 18, 2023
HURFOM: From January to June, 2023, the Mon State Health Department reported approximately 600 cases of dengue fever. Two individuals have died of the disease.
The majority of patients are from Mawlamyine, Paung, Thanbyuzayat, Kyikemayaw and Ye Townships. The cases include children in the 5 to 9 age range.
Read moreA child steps on landmine and dies in Thane Zayat
July 18, 2023
HURFOM: On July 13, 2023, a 12-year-old child from War Dat Kwin village near Thane Zayat Town, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State stepped on a landmine and died, according to local sources.
Read moreJunta arrests 16 gold mine workers in Kyike Hto
July 18, 2023
HURFOM: On July 13, 2023, the military junta raided a gold mine to the west of an oil palm plantation near Inn Ka Bo village, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State and arrested 16 workers.
With roughly 50 soldiers the junta burnt down the workers’ barrack, seized a backhoe and other machinery.
Read moreWeekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State, and Tanintharyi Region
July 17, 2023
HURFOM | July Second Week
The situation in Southeastern Burma continues to deteriorate violently. Civilians have been forced to flee their homes and villages, desperately searching for refuge and protection. Even as they try to escape, the junta is relentless in firing ammunition and scores have been injured and killed while running for their lives. In addition, many suffer from preventable diseases due to the Burma Army’s ongoing blocking of aid and urgently needed resources. Civil society groups and social welfare organizations are doing their best to fill the gaps in service provisions. Still, serious risks continue undermining stability in the region and countrywide.
The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) is committed to documenting the widespread atrocities rampant along the Thai-Burma border and in the dozens of townships across our target areas of Mon State, Karen State and the Tanintharyi region. Firing happens in Burma even when there is no conflict to provoke the regime. The attacks against civilians are indiscriminate and targeted.
Read moreJunta threatens villagers with seizure of homes if they do not return
July 17, 2023
HURFOM: On June 25, 2023, there was an armed clash between the revolutionary forces and the military’s junta in Hnit Ka Yin village, Ye Township, Mon State.
The military attacked the village with artillery weapons and an air assault.
The junta arrested some villagers and roughly half of the village population fled from their homes.
Read moreWhereabouts of 12 Thaton political prisoners unknown
July 17, 2023
HURFOM: Between May and early July, 2023, the military secretly removed 12 political prisoners who faced long term imprisonment under Anti-Terrorist Act from Thaton Prison, in Mon State.
Those prisoners have lost contact with their family members. When family members attempted to visit their relatives, prison officials told them that the prisoners had been removed by other authorities and they did not know their whereabouts.
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Latest Headlines
- Residents experience prolong and frequent telecommunication cutoff in Mon and Tenasserim
- Residents removed by new airport project face hardship
- KNU’s brigade arrests and extorts a huge ransom from a local man
- Junta’s artillery attack injures a child and woman in Long Lone
- Junta’s troops burn down four houses in Tenasserim Township
- Civilian severely injured by junta’s unprovoked artillery attack in Kyike Hto
- Half of displaced persons from Taung Zoon villages unable to return home
- 25 Burmese workers returned by Thai authority arrested by junta and forced into compulsory military service
- Three elderly residents injured in a battle in Pu Law Township
- Junta pursues and arrests young men claiming compulsory military service
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