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Power cut off in border towns creates more hardships for residents

HURFOM: At 9 am on February 5^th, 2025, in order to crack down on “call-scam gangs” based in the Thai-Burma border, the Thai government cut off the electricity to border towns such as Myawaddy, Tachileik and Three Pagoda Pass. The power cut was followed by the shutting down of the internet.

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Displaced students decide not to take final exam

HURFOM: More than 300 students and their parents from Kyone Long (old) village and Kyauk Mee Chaung village, Ye Chaung Pyar region, Ye Township, Mon State have been displaced by heavy armed clashes and military tensions in the area.

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Hundred of undocumented Burmese migrant workers arrested on Thai-Burma border daily

HURFOM: Following the approval of the legal procedure of the public conscription law, and with the ban “oversea worker identification cards”, many undocumented Burmese migrant workers are attempting to enter Thailand by irregular means.

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Junta’s troops burn down 23 other houses in Ah Nan Kwin

HURFOM: At about noon on January 29^th, 2024, a junta military regiment entered Ah Nan Kwin village, Kyarinnseikyi Township, Karen State and burnt down, 23 houses in Ward #2 and #3.  All were destroyed, according to a social worker who helps displaced villagers.

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Three young women arrested in a shopping mall in Dawei

HURFOM: On February 4^th, 2025, three young women were arrested by the joint team of the junta’s soldiers and the police members in a shopping mall in Dawei City, Dawei Township, Tenasserim Division.

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Weekly Analysis: Women and Children Killed in Escalating Attacks by the Military Junta

Across Burma, civilians are facing ongoing threats to their safety and security. Women, children, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable, and the escalating offensives and attacks by the junta put them at greater risk. In targeted areas of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), including Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi region, several incidents of assaults by the junta were reported this week, resulting in the deaths and injuries of multiple women and children.

In Ye Township, Mon State, three women, including two internally displaced persons (IDPs), were injured when junta troops indiscriminately fired heavy artillery into Wapathae Village, Baelamu Village Tract, despite no active fighting in the area. On the night of January 24, troops from the Junta’s Artillery Regiment No. 317, based in Ye Township, launched five artillery shells into Wapathae Village. The shells exploded inside the village, injuring:

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Junta targets downtown Kaw Ka Rate with artillery attack, killing one woman

HURFOM: On February 4^th, 2025, the Kaw Ka Rate based 97^th Light Infantry Battalion and an artillery regiment operating under the 19^th military operation command launched an artillery attack on the downtown Kaw Ka Rate Town, Kaw Ka Rate Township, Karen State.  There were no armed clashes in the area.

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Junta’s artillery and drone attacks injure five villagers in Kyike Hto

HURFOM: In Kyike Hto Township, Mon State, regiments of the military junta have targeted residential areas with artillery and drone attacks injuring five residents.

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Local woman from Dawei steps on landmine and loses her leg

HURFOM: On February 2^nd, 2025, 50-year-old Daw Naw Jue Nee Tar ran over a landmine while travelling along the Dawei – Htee Kee Motorway, Dawei Township, Tenasserim Division.  She was returning from her plantation by motorbike, the explosion took one of her legs.

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Junta shoots and kills eight recaptured detainees in Ye

HURFOM: On February 1^st, 2025, detainees were being held in a cell in the Ye Town Police Station in Ye Township, Mon State.   When police officials entered the cell to provide the detainees with a meal, they were overpowered by the detainees who grabbed the police firearms and shot the police officials. The detainees managed to escape.

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