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Junta kills father during his detention

HURFOM: On April 18th, 2024, the military junta arrested five residents from Kan Bauk and Phaung Taw villages, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division.

Among those arrested, U Win Bo and his son were detained at Kan Bauk based Mawrawaddy Navy Command.  On April 24^th, the junta informed the family that U Win Bo was dead.

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Despite invitation from junta, Dhammasa residents will not return to village

HURFOM: On April 26th, 2024, the Kyikemayaw Township Administration Authority representing the military junta installed a signboard inviting displaced persons from Dhammasa village to return home, as there has been no armed conflict.

“How can we return home? Our houses were destroyed in a fire. The entire village was burnt down. We have no home to go back to. I don’t think the armed conflict has really ended. We still worry about another possible armed clash. There might be one or two villagers who go back home but the majority still wait and see,” said a displaced person.

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Junta’s navy raids Kaw Bane village and arrests, tortures and kills villagers

HURFOM: Local sources report that on the morning of April 25^th, 2024, junta Navy troops launched a brutal raid on Kaw Bane village in Kaw Ka Rate Township, torturing and killing several villagers. Among the victims was Mi Chan Aie, a 20-year-old woman, a daughter of Nai Mya Ai and Mi Zar Zar Htun, residents of the western ward of Kaw Bane in Kawkareik Township, Karen State.

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April 2024: Monthly Overview of the Human Rights Situation

Arbitrary Arrests on the Rise in Southeastern Burma as the Military Junta Targets Opposition Forces

April 2024

The Burma Army has continued to lose momentum, support and gains on the battlefield. The war against the people it once thought it could win has now been spurred into question as the people make it increasingly clear that there is no place for authoritarian rulers in the future of the country being built. The people-powered movement has not been deterred by the international community, observers and analysts, who long underestimated their capacity to defeat the long-feared and tolerated military junta. 

Local organizations and their documentation efforts have been vital to ensuring the gains on the ground in Burma. Despite the presence of international human rights organizations and the United Nations, they continue to need more access to areas that local groups are fully equipped to reach due to their decades of experience responding to emergencies. As stated in a new paper released this week titled “From Humanitarian Resistance to Resilience: Nation-building in Active Conflict,” the authors correctly state that “local organizations and administrative bodies are doing much more with less.”  

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Police forces arrest and extort money from drug users in Thanbyuzayat

HURFOM: In Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State, the junta’s police forces arrest drug users but do not bring them to court.  Instead, they threaten and extort money from them and their family members.

“On April 10th, the police force came to the village to arrest a drug dealer. They found just two pills but they demanded two million MMK. Then, they didn’t bring the case to the court and released the arrested dealer,” said a local source from Thanbyuzayat Township.

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Junta’s soldiers steal valuable from houses of displaced villagers

HURFOM: The local villagers from Ta Ra Nar village, Kyikemayaw Township, Mon State reported that junta soldiers stole food and valuables from their houses, which were then taken away by truck.

Due to air and artillery attacks, residents from seven villages in the township fled their homes, and have been displaced  since the last week of March, 2024.

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Two women killed and other two injured by artillery attacks in Kyikemayaw

HURFOM: On April 24th and 25th, 2024, the military junta launched indiscriminate artillery attacks on villages in Kyikemayaw Township, Mon State killing two local women and injuring other two residents.

At about 4 pm on April 24th, an artillery shell exploded at Ko Shwe Tun’s house in Kaw Zwell village.  The explosion killed his wife and injured himself and another local woman.

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Junta’s air assault injures woman and destroys seven houses in Kaw Ka Rate

HURFOM: On April 23rd, 2024, the military junta launched air assaults on Kan Ne, Kaw Kyike and Kaw Khite villages near Kaw Ka Rate Town, Karen State.  A 48-year-old local woman was injured and the assault destroyed at least seven houses.

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Junta’s soldiers sexually assault Mon women

HURFOM: There have been frequent and intense battles between the military junta and the New Mon State Party (AD – Anti Military Dictatorship) in Kyikemayaw Township, Mon State with junta’s troops stationed in monasteries, schools and houses in Mon villages in the area.

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Junta conducts more arrest in Kan Bauk

HURFOM: Since the third week of April, 2024, the military junta has been arresting civilians in the Kan Bauk region and nearby villages, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division.

According to the local reports, on April 18th, the junta arrested a father and son from Phaung Taw village and on April 19, a couple from Kyauk Tie Ward, Kan Bauk region was arrested. Then, on April 20, another Phaung Taw villager was arrested by the junta.

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