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Junta’s troops disguising themselves as PDF extort traveler’s and drivers

HURFOM: On April 26, 2024, the military junta’s troops disguised themselves as the members of the People Defense Forces and extorted money from travelers in Chaught Chin village, Tha Yet Chaung Township, Tenasserim Division.

Witnesses reported to HURFOM that the junta’s troops were in disguise, and extorted a huge amount of money from the travelers using the Myeik – Dawei Highway Road.

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Junta shoots and kills two men during military incursion

HURFOM: On April 25th, 2024, approximately 200 military junta troops launched an operation in Kaw Bane, Kaw Pauk and Kaw Pa Line villages, Kaw Ka Rate Township, Mon State. Junta forces arrested and tortured local villagers and stole gold, cash, jewelry and motorbikes.

During the incident, a 30-year-old Kaw Bane resident, Min Aung Chan and a 38-year-old Kaw Pa Line resident, Nai Seik Gyi had their mobile phones taken as well as their motorbikes.

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Elderly woman killed by junta’s artillery attack in Long Lone

On April 25th, 2024, an 80-year-old woman from Htein Thit Ward, Long Lone Town,

Tenasserim Division was killed by the junta’s artillery attack.

The military regiment based in Long Lone Police Station launched an indiscriminate artillery attack and one of the artillery shells exploded in the compound of Grandma Daw Khin Aye’s house and killed the house owner.

“She just returned from a funeral house and was hit and killed by the artillery attack when she entered her house compound. The Long Lone Police Station is responsible for the attack. There was an armed clash in the morning,” said a Long Lone resident.

On April 3rd, 2024, a man from Thar Yar Gone village, Long Lone Township was also killed by the junta’s artillery attack.

According to local sources, the junta’s regiment based in Long Lone Town frequently launches indiscriminate artillery attacks from the outskirts of the town even when there are no active armed clashes, forcing residents to move out and find a safe shelter.

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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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