Deported and Detained: Burmese Migrants Face Forced Conscription Upon Return from Thailand

May 30, 2025

HURFOM: On 26 May 2025, Thai authorities transferred more than 80 Myanmar nationals from the Ranong Detention Center to Kaw Thaung, Tanintharyi Region. The move marks the fifth deportation of Myanmar migrants from Thailand this year. Among those deported were 60 men and 21 women, according to a statement released by Thailand’s Immigration Department in Ranong.

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Vanishing Without Justice: A Surge in Disappearances Under Junta Rule in Mon State

May 30, 2025

HURFOM: Across Mon State, cases of enforced disappearances and suspicious abductions are rising at an alarming rate. Local communities say that junta-controlled police and administrative personnel, who claim to oversee law and order, are deliberately ignoring public complaints, particularly reports related to missing persons.

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Thousands Newly Displaced as Junta Escalates Shelling and Ground Attacks in Tanintharyi Region

May 30, 2025

HURFOM: In recent weeks, junta offensives across Yebyu and Tha Yet Chaung townships in Tanintharyi Region have intensified, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes. HURFOM field documentation confirms that at least eight villages have been affected by daily indiscriminate artillery attacks and ground operations, driving widespread fear and deepening the ongoing humanitarian crisis in southeastern Burma.

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More than 17,000 displaced villagers from Kyike Hto need urgent help

May 30, 2025

HURFOM: On May 25th and 26th, 2025, a junta regiment consisting of more than 500 troops entered Kyike Hto Township, Mon State and Wall Township, Pegu Division and launched indiscriminate artillery attacks on villages. Local residents had to flee immediately and are unable to return to their homes.

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13-year-old girl raped and killed in Mawlamyine Township

May 30, 2025

HURFOM: On May 26th, 2025, a 13-year-old girl from Kaw Sein village, Mawlamyine Township, Mon State was raped and killed.

The young girl was in the fifth grade of the Kaw Sein Basic Education Primary School.

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35,000 displaced villagers need urgent help in rainy season

May 30, 2025

HURFOM: Since March 14th, 2025, there have been intense battles between the military junta and the Karen National Liberation Army and its alliances in Kaw Ka Rate Township, Karen State and the constant armed conflict has forced more than 35,000 villagers to flee their homes.

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Junta says NO to new loans to farmers who failed to repay old ones

May 29, 2025

HURFOM: On May 19th, 2025, the Myanma Agricultural Development Bank announced a “rainy paddy” loan program for farmers, with terms of 150,000 MMK per acre at 5% interest. However, the bank stated that farmers who failed to repay any prior loans were not allowed to apply to the new loan program.

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Na Bu Lell villager arrested and killed by local armed group

May 29, 2025

HURFOM: On May 13th, 2025, 51-year-old U Aye Soe from Na Bu Lell village, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division was arrested and killed by a local armed group.

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Junta’s regiment burgles nearly 200 houses in Kyike Hto

May 27, 2025

HURFOM: On May 16th, 2025, a military junta regiment consisting of more than 300 troops advanced into Win Kan village tract, Kyike Hto Township, Mon State and stationed themselves in the area for four days.

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Child steps on landmine in Kan Bauk

May 27, 2025

HURFOM: On May 25th, 2025, a 13-year-old child from Thiri Mingalar Ward, Kan Bauk village, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division had stepped on a landmine and lost one of his legs.

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