NEWS - Human Rights Violation in Ce

[TheTruth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: NEWS - Human Rights Violation in Central Shan State

SSA NEWS

11 November 1999

Human Rights Violation in Central Shan State

On the 14th October 1999, SSA troops in the central Shan state had saved
4
runaway porters. They were convicts serving their terms, who were sent
to
use as porters, in the campaign against SSA troops.

They were:

(1) Aung Ko, age 17, son of U Maung and Daw Mya of Pale township, 
Sagaing
Division.
(2) Khin Maung Tint, age 24, an Indian from May Myo.
(3) Maung Tu, age 27, a Burmese from Mogok (Mong Goot).
(4) U Mya Kyi, age 52, a Burmese from Mya Yait Nanda, Myothit, Mandalay.

When they were found, they were weak and tired because they were
underfed
and were covered with bruises and wounds, due to continuous beatings of
the
SPDC soldiers. In the SPDC's new offensive against SSA in the central
Shan
State, they are using more than 300 troops from Rangoon and Mandalay.
The
number of the convicted porters used in these campaign was not
known.They
were mixed with civilian porters which have been captured on their way,
but
the SPDC troops are really using convicts as porters and human mine
sweepers.

The 4 runaway porters were treated and cared by SSA troops, and later
let
them went back to Nam Sarng on 20th October 1999. In these new campaign,
in
the central Shan State, the Burmes troops are perpetrating atrocities
such
as  looting, rape and execution as in 1996 campaign.

The SPDC has a grand plan to annihilate its political enemies in every
corner  of the country. The military intelligence has been ordered to
observe every  political parties, including the cease fire armed groups.
A
reliable source from  Rangoon said that on the 8th November 1999, SPDC
had
detained ethnic  political leaders of the Mon and Chin, in Rangoon.