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Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region

HURFOM, Second Week of January 2024

In conflict-torn Southeastern Burma, civilians are seeking refuge and urgently needed protection from the ongoing bombardments by the military junta. Across target areas of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), including Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi region, those displaced continue to rise as offensives intensify.

For example, in Mon State, nearly 3,000 local people in Thaton District, who have been fleeing the war for almost a month due to the fighting, require emergency assistance, including basic food, medicine, shelter, blankets, and warm clothes, which are urgently needed.  Since December 13th, the fighting between the two sides has intensified since the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) blocked and attacked the junta’s Win Tar Pan camp based in Bilin.

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Three internally displaced persons shot: Two die in Kaw Ka Rate

HURFOM: The military tension in Kaw Ka Rate Town, Karen State has been on-going for the last 40 days. On January 9th, 2024, the military junta battled with the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army and the People’s Defense Forces in downtown Kaw Ka Rate.

Three internally displaced persons (IDP) who were from Ward #6, had returned to their homes to collect household items when they were shot.  Two died, while the third sustained an injury.

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More than 100 houses burnt down by junta in Nyaw Pyin village, Long Lone Township

HURFOM: On January 8th, 2024, a military regiment entered Nyaw Pyin village, Long Lone Township, Tenasserim Division and burnt down more than 100 houses.

The military regiment burnt down about ten houses belonging to plantation workers in Phoe Phoe Kyoud Beach and then entered Nyaw Pyin village. The regiment arrested ten villagers and burnt down more than 100 houses.

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Three injured by junta’s artillery attack in Kyone Doe

HURFOM: In the first week of January, 2024, the military junta targeted villages in Kyone Doe Township, Kaw Ka Rate District, Karen State with an artillery attack. The Central Karen National Union reported that two nuns and a local villager were injured by the artillery explosion.

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Persistent armed clashes in Kaw Ka Rate force 40,000 residents to flee homes

HURFOM: The armed clashes in Kaw Ka Rate Town, Karen State which started on November 30th, 2023, continues up to today, forcing more than 40,000 residents from 30 nearby villages to flee from their homes.

The junta launched military attacks in an effort to take back control of the Kaw Ka Rate – Myawaddy Asia Highway, and on January 8th engaged in a battle with the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army.

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Villager arrested by military regiment found dead

HURFOM: On December 28th , 2023, a military regiment entered Lay Toon Khan village, Long Lone Township, Tenasserim Division and arrested some villagers. One of them was found dead on a pomelo plantation near Yet Thane village on January 7th, 2024.

“Ko Hla Tun Win suffered from a stroke and he had a mental illness. Those who were arrested with him were released. But he did not return home at the same time,  he simply disappeared,” said a Lay Toon Kan villager.

The dead body did not have a gunshot wound and no one knows the cause of death.

“The body had significantly decayed when we found it. It looks like he died four days ago,” said one of his relatives.

The military junta terrorized residents in Long Lone Township beginning on  December 27th , 2023 to January 6th , 2024, by burning down 30 houses and arresting villagers.

Junta conducts constant arrests in Thanbyuzayat over December and January

HURFOM: Since December, 2023, the military junta has arrested nearly 70 residents of Thanbyuzayat, accusing them of promoting terrorism by providing financial support to the People’s Defense Forces (PDF).

The junta continues to arrest individuals on a constant basis into January, 2024, and have put in place mobility restrictions, as well as interrogating rubber plantation workers who have to go to their workplaces at night.

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Couple sustains injury in armed clash in Bilin

HURFOM: On January 6th, 2024, an armed clash took place between the military junta and the Karen National Liberation Army in Ah Lu Lay village, Bilin Township, Mon State.  The fighting injured at least two plywood factory workers.

The victims were 40-year-old U Zay Yar Min and 36-year-old Daw Ne Ne Aye.

More than 30 military junta troops entered Ah Lu Lay village in the morning, which led to an exchange of gunfire with the KNLA in the village.

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More than 30 homes in Long Lone burnt down during 11-day military operation

HURFOM: During an 11-day military operation that ran from December 26th, 2023 to January 5th, 2024, the military junta burnt down more than 30 houses in Long Lone Township, Tenasserim Division.

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Woman dies in shooting incident in Kyike Hto

HURFOM: On January 4rth, 2024, a shooting took place near the village market in Moke Pa Lin village, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State that accidentally killed a local woman.

Two unknown gunmen on a motorbike shot 40-year-old Nyi Nyi Lwin who was a notorious informer for the military and the police. He was shot at a betel nut shop near the village market.

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