Weekly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi Region
July 8, 2024
Throughout the first week of July, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) observed worrying patterns of violence against women and girls in target areas of Mon State, Karen State and the Tanintharyi region.
At the end of June, HURFOM’s latest volume of ‘Voice Up’ also presented evidence of the rise in targeted gendered attacks. Further, a new report released by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on the gendered impacts of the coup found, “The threat of sexual and gender-based violence is a dark shadow that follows women, girls, and LGBT people throughout Myanmar.”
Read moreOnly twenty displaced villagers return to Dhammasa village
July 5, 2024
HURFOM: Since the last week of April, 2024, the military junta has announced that displaced persons from Dhammasa village, Kyikemayaw Township, Mon State can return home because the region is now stable and peaceful.
Read moreDisplaced villagers from Chaung Hna Kwa unable to return home
July 5, 2024
HURFOM: Due to the armed clash between the military junta and the joint resistance forces on November 10th, 2023, more than 3,000 residents from Chaung Hna Kwa, Taung Ka Lay, Kyauk Twelve, Mell Ta Yoe and Hpat Tay Gone villages, Kyikemayaw Township, Mon Sate have fled from their homes.
There has been no armed clash in the area for more than eight months, but more than 800 displaced villagers from Chaung Hna Kaw village are still unable to return to their homes.
Read moreJunta’s night search frightens residents in Lamine
July 4, 2024
HURFOM: At about 8 pm on June 29th, 2024, military junta troops conducted a door-to-door night search in some wards in Lamine Town, Ye Township, Mon State that frightened local residents.
The junta conducted the search after the Maw Ka Nin based, 106th light infantry battalion was attacked by resistance forces. Junta forces claimed they were checking for men staying in the houses.
Read moreJunta’s artillery attack kills a novice in Kyike Hto
July 4, 2024
HURFOM: On June 29th, 2024, the 310th regiment battalion based in Thane Za Yet launched eight indiscriminate artillery attacks on Yay Kyaw village, which is located in Thane Za Yet Town, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State. The attacks killed a novice and severely injured a local woman.
Read moreArrest of undocumented Burmese people attempting to enter Thailand on the rise
July 3, 2024
HURFOM: Livelihood hardships, the conscription law, and the ongoing armed conflict is forcing many Burmese citizens to leave the country for Thailand. Many are doing so without documentation via the Three-Pagoda route on the Thai-Burma border, and are often referred to as migrant workers.
Read more27 civilians killed by junta’s artillery attack within six months in Mon State
July 3, 2024
HURFOM: From January to June, 2024, 27 innocent civilians from Mon State were killed by the junta’s indiscriminate artillery attacks, and another 85 individuals sustained injuries, according to the data collected by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM).
Eight residents from Bilin, six residents from Kyike Hto, five residents from Kyikemayaw, four residents from Ye, three residents from Thaton and a resident from Paung Townships, 27 residents in total, were killed by artillery attacks.
Read moreJunta’s indiscriminate artillery attack injures four family members including two children
July 2, 2024
HURFOM: On June 27th, 2024, the 317th artillery regiment based in Hnit Ka Yin village, Ye Township, Mon State had launched an indiscriminate artillery attack despite there being no active armed clashes. The attack injured four family members including two children.
The two children who are under ten years old and other two family members are from Bu Tar Ward. The attack also damaged at least three houses.
Read moreJunta’s artillery destroys five houses and forces entire village to flee home
July 2, 2024
HURFOM: On June 27th, 2024, the Mawrawaddy Navy Command targeted Zar D village, Kan Bauk village track, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim with continuous artillery attack and destroyed five houses.
After the junta’s military base in Zar D and Kan Bauk villages were attacked by the resistance forces, the junta targeted the village with indiscriminate attacks.
Read moreFor social workers charged under Anti-Terrorist act in Kyike Hto
July 2, 2024
HURFOM: On June 27th, 2024, the military junta charged four social workers with the “Kaw Sa Nine Society Organization ” from Kaw Sa Nine Ward, Kyike Hto Town, Mon State using the Anti-Terrorist Act.
According to sources close to the families, on June 13th, U Mya Aung, his daughter Ma Su Myat Su Yadanar Way, and coworkers U Chan Thar Aung, and U Soe Hline, were arrested by the junta at their home. The junta interrogated them at the 44th Battalion Command for two weeks and then laid charges.
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Latest Headlines
- One civilian died due to the battles in Thane Za Yet
- Frequent armed conflicts stop operation of schools in Kaw Ka Rate
- Ten young men per ward must serve as conscripts in Kyarinnseikyi
- Military Junta Burns High School to Ash in Bilin
- Two siblings sustain severe injuries from landmine explosion in Thanbyuzayat
- Junta arrests young man and forces him to serve as conscript in Mudon
- Three family members arrested in Maw Ka Nin
- Rubber plantation worker sustains injury in armed clash in Maw Ka Nin
- Junta’s troops launch military operation in Long Lone that kills local woman
- Intense fighting forces 500 residents to flee homes in Phar Pon
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