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SPDC soilders rapes and Human Right



Subject: SPDC soilders rapes and Human Rights abused in Palaung land


SPDC CORRUPTION OVER TIMBER IN NAMTU

On March 8, 1999, SPDC LIB 324 Commander Aung Kyaw Nyain, based in Namtu
township, northern Shan State, ordered Pang Long villagers to cut 5 tons of
wood within 2 months to build more high schools in Namtu township. He said
he would buy all 5 tons.
After the Pang Long villagers had cut all the wood and were transporting it
in two trucks through a checkpoint near Namtu, they were arrested by the
Second Commander of LIB 324, Lin Lin. The wood owner and drivers tried to
explain that they had cut the wood on the orders of Aung Kyaw Nyain, but
Lin Lin did not listen. He confiscated all the wood, and ordered everyone
back home, threatening to shoot them if they did not obey him. During the
next two weeks Lin Lin sold the wood himself in Namtu and gave half of money 
to Commander Aung Kyaw Nyain.


SPDC CAPTAIN RAPES VILLAGE WOMAN

An SPDC Captain Tun Win, the leader of LIB 504, based in Nam San, raped a
village girl (name withheld) from Man Sai on February 27, 1999. The captain
had long admired the girl and before the rape had asked her to marry him,
but she had refused. After the rape, the captain told the girl's mother
that the girl wanted to marry him, and ordered the girl to live with him in
his army camp. After two months, the captain was transferred to Mandalay
and abandoned the girl.  


EXTORTION BY SPDC TROOPS NEAR NAMTU

On 1/3/99 SPDC LB (22) led by Major Aung Myint, based in Namtu, set
up a camp between Namtu and Man Tong, in northern Shan State. Villagers in
Man Tong who came to buy rice in Namtu, at a cost of 3,800 kyats per small
sack, have been forced to sell 10 sacks to the SPDC troops at a cost of
only 2,300 kyats. Those refusing to sell rice have had it confiscated from
them. The SPDC troops have claimed the rice was for their own troops, but
in fact they have sold it to villagers near their camp at a cost of 3,800
kyats. 

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