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

HURFOM, Third Week of April 2024

The traditional Burmese New Year, ‘Thingyan,’ was marked last week. For the third year since the attempted coup, the people of Burma refused to participate in any celebration, which would suggest the situation in the country is normal. In its loosening grasp on reality, the junta bought stages and set up areas to gather in urban locations, but these went largely unattended as photos showed empty streets and closed-up shops. With ongoing human rights violations rampant, the cause for celebration was diluted with a shared frustration for the lack of consequences the junta continues to evade.
 
The junta released thousands of prisoners nationwide during the annual New Year events. However, this remains a disingenuous gesture as HURFOM has documented debilitating conditions inside the prison. On April 17, at 1:00 PM., the military junta granted amnesty to 3,303 prisoners nationwide. As part of this amnesty, 204 inmates from various prison camps in Mon State were released to mark the first day of the New Year. The Department of Revenue ordered these releases under the military junta’s command. Only four of those pardoned in Mon State were political prisoners who were being detained under Section 505 of the Penal Code.

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

HURFOM, Second Week of April 2024

On April 4th, 2024, the United Nations Security Council held an open briefing on Burma. While the dialogue was welcomed, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) shared collective disappointment at the lack of meaningful progress in response to the urgency of the situation in Burma. While the resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council recognizes the severity of the crisis, it fails to accept that international stakeholders, notably ASEAN, cannot be relied upon as drivers to end the crisis when they are constantly engaging with the junta.

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Junta drops bombs on Dhammasa village again: Homes burnt down in nearby villages

On April 8th and 9th, 2024, the military junta again launched air assaults and artillery attacks on Dhammasa and nearby villages, Kyikemayaw Township, Mon State. 

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Two children injured by junta’s air assault in Kyikemayaw

On April 8th, 2024, a military junta launched air assaults on Dhammasa, Ta Ra Nar and Kyune Gone villages, in Kyikemayaw Township, Mon State. 

As a result, two children from Kyune Gone village, 7-year-old Maung Toe Tet Oo and 16-year-old Ma Phu Phu Zaw Won were injured. Ma Phu Phu Zaw Won’s is in critical condition and she has been sent to the Mawlamyine General Hospital for further treatment, according to sources close to her family.

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Four Mawlamyine residents arrested and charged

Four residents from Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State, have been arrested by the junta after being accused of providing financial support to the National Unity Government (NUG) and are charged under the junta’s Anti-Terrorist Act.

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An express bus attacked in Bilin; one killed and four injured

HURFOM: On April 4, 2024, an express bus struck a landmine and was shot at on the Yangon – Mawlamyine Highway near Shwe Yaung Pya village, Bilin Township, Mon State.  The driver’s assistant was killed and four passengers were injured.

29-year-old Ko Zin Ko Lat was killed on the spot and three men and a woman were injured.

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Four villagers who disappeared from Thanbyuzayat killed by armed group

HURFOM: It has been discovered that four villagers from Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State who disappeared for nearly a month were killed by “Taung Nyo Column” of the 27th Brigade of the Karen National Liberation Army.

The group took responsibility for the murders in a statement made on March 20th, 2024.

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Administrators extort money from 18-year-olds seeking to avoid compulsory military service.

HURFOM: In Chaung Zone Township, Mon State, junta-appointed Administrators are extorting 8,000 MMK from every young man who has turned 18 years old. Administrators claim the money is to hire substitutes for those not want to submit to compulsory military service.

“The Administrator said we must pay 1.5 million MMK every month to support substitutes for compulsory military service. First, they collected money from each household and now, every young man who has already turned 18 years old has to pay more money,” said a resident from Ka Log village, Chaung Zone Township.

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Junta targets village with artillery attacks: Residents insecure

HURFOM: On April 2nd, 2024, the military junta’s artillery regiment based in Southern Ye Township, Mon State targeted Ka Log Gyi village with indiscriminate artillery attacks even though there had been no active armed clashes in the area.

The junta assumes “Ye Ba Lue” and other revolutionary forces are active near Ka Log Gyi village and in response the 316th Artillery Regiment launched indiscriminate artillery attacks on nearby areas.

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More than 1,000 displaced persons in Yebyu unable to return home

HURFOM: After revolutionary forces attack by drones, on the “Ma Hwelve Taung” Check-point, located on the border of Mon State and Tenasserim Division, the military junta launched air assaults on Yebyu Township, on March 29, 2024.

The air assault injured a villager and destroyed a house. More than 1,000 residents from Kywe Tha Lin, Log Tie, Yar Phu and Ah Lae Sa Khan villages had to flee their homes.

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