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Sub-title: ကရင်နီဒေသတိုက်ပွဲတွေမှာ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားတွေ ၈၀၀နီးပါးသေဆုံးခဲ့ဟု PKPF ထုတ်ပြန်
Description: "မင်းအောင်လှိုင် ခေါင်းဆောင်တဲ့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်က အာဏာသိမ်းခဲ့တဲ့နောက်ပိုင်း ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တဲ့ ကရင်နီဒေသ တိုက်ပွဲတွေမှာ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သား ၈၀၀ နီးပါးသေဆုံးခဲ့တယ်လို့ တိုးတက်သော ကရင်နီပြည်သူ့အင်အားစု(PKPF)က ဒီကနေ့ ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်ပါတယ်။ ၂၀၂၁ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ၁ရက် ကနေ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလကုန်အထိ ကရင်နီပြည်အတွင်းစစ်ရေး နိုင်ငံရေး အခြေနေ အကျဉ်းချုပ်ကို PKPFက ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့တာမှာ ဖော်ပြထားတာပါ။ အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးနောက်ပိုင်းစစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ကို ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်(KNDF)၊ ကရင်နီတပ်မတော်(KA)၊ ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်(PDF) အပါအဝင် ကရင်နီဒေသ တော်လှန်ရေးအင်အားစု တွေက စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ကို ခုခံတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့လို့ လွိုင်ကော်၊ ဒီးမော့ဆို၊ မိုးဗြဲ၊ ဖယ်ခုံ၊ ပင်လောင်း၊ ဘောလခဲ၊ ဖရူဆို၊ ဖားဆောင်း စတဲ့ဒေသတွေမှာ တိုက်ပွဲတွေ ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ၂၀၂၁ မေလကနေ ၂၀၂၂ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလကုန်အထိ တိုက်ပွဲပေါင်း ၁၈၇ ကြိမ်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တာမှာ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သား ၇၉၀ ဦးသေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီး ဒဏ်ရာရသူအများအပြားရှိခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ပျက်စီးသွားတဲ့ စစ်ကောင်စီယာဉ် ၂၆ စီးထက်မနည်းရှိခဲ့ပါတယ်။ တိုက်ပွဲတွေပြင်းထန်ခဲ့လို့ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်က လေကြောင်း တိုက်ခိုက်မှုတွေ အကြိမ်ကြိမ်ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ရာမှာ စုစုပေါင်း ၆၉ ကြိမ်ရှိတယ်လို့ဆိုပါတယ်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်နဲ့ဖြစ်ခဲ့တဲ့ တိုက်ပွဲတွေမှာ KNDF/KA/PDF ပါအဝင် တော်လှန်ရေးရဲဘော် ၈၇ ဦးကျဆုံးခဲ့ရသလို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်က ပြည်သူလူထုတွေကို အကြမ်းဖက်တိုက်ခိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့လို့ အရပ်သားပြည်သူ ၂၂၁ ဦးသေဆုံးခဲ့ရတယ်လို့ PKPFက ထုတ်ပြန်ပါတယ်။ ဒါ့အပြင် အကြောင်းအမျိုးမျိုးနဲ့ မတရားဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရတဲ့ ပြည်သူလူထု ၂၂၀ ဦးရှိတယ်လို့လည်းဆိုပါတယ်။ ကရင်နီဒေသတိုက်ပွဲတွေမှာ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်က လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်တာ လက်နက်ကြီးတွေနဲ့ အလွန်အကျွံပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်တာနဲ့နေအိမ်တွေကို တမင်မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးတာ အပါအဝင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေလက်ချက်ကြောင့် ပြည်သူလူထုတွေရဲ့နေအိမ် ၆၅၀ နီးပါး နဲ့ ဘာသာရေး အဆောက် အအုံ ၁၀ ခုတို့ ပျက်စီးခဲ့တယ်လို့ ဆိုပါတယ်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်ဟာ လက်ရှိအချိန်မှာလည်း အရပ်သားတွေကို ပစ်မှတ်ထားပြီး လေကြောင်းကနေ တိုက်ခိုက်တာ၊ စစ်ရှောင်စခန်းတွေကို လေကြောင်းက ဗုံးကြဲတာ၊ လက်နက်ကြီးတွေနဲ့ တိုက်ခိုက်တာ တွေ လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့လို့ ကရင်နီစစ်ရှောင်ပြည်သူတွေ အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရမှုတွေလည်း ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။..."
Source/publisher: Progressive Karenni People Force
2022-03-02
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Description: "ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁၀) ရက်နေ့၊ နံနက်အစောပိုင်း (၇း၁၅) နာရီ လွိုင်ကော်မြို့နယ်၊ နွားလဝိုး ကျေးရွာအုပ်စု၊ ဖာတီမာကျေးရွာအနီးတွင် စစ်ကြောင်းထိုးလာသော အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များကို ကရင်နီ တပ်မတော် (KA) နှင့် KNDF တို့မှ ခုခံတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ တိုက်ပွဲမှာ မနက် (၇း၁၅) နာရီမှ ညနေ (၁၆း၃၀) နာရီအထိ တိုက်ပွဲ သုံးကြိမ်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထိုတိုက်ပွဲအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်ဖက်မှ (၇) ဦးသေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီး၊ အများအပြား ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရသဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖက်မှ တင့်ကားများ အသုံးပြုတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များသည် တိုက်ပွဲဖြစ်ပွားရာ ဖာတီမာနှင့် သုံးမိုင် (ပါကျဲ) ကျေးရွာများတွင် အရပ်သားပြည်သူနှစ်ဦးကို မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ နေအိမ်များ ကို မီးရှို့ဖျက်စီးခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထိုနေ့ မွန်းလွဲပိုင်း (၁၃း၃၀) ဖယ်ခုံမြို့နယ်၊ ခေါင်းမိုင်းကျေးရွာအနီး အင်အား (၁၀၀) ခန့်ပါ စစ်ကြောင်း ထိုးလာသော အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များကို မိုင်းဆွဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ရာ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ် ဖက်မှ ထိခိုက်မှုများရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထို့အတူ ဇန်နဝါရီ (၉) ရက်နေ့ ဖယ်ခုံမြို့နယ်၊ ပင်ပုံတွင် တပ်စွဲထားသော အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်နှင့် PNO တပ်ဖွဲ့တို့ကို ကရင်နီတပ်မတော် (KA) နှင့် KNDF တို့မှ တပ်ခိုက်ခဲ့ရာ စစ်ကောင်စီ ဗိုလ်အဆင့်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးသေဆုံးခဲ့ပါသည်။ ဒီးမော့ဆိုမြို့နယ်၊ ငွေတောင်ကျေးရွာ အခြေစိုက် (ခလရ-၁၀၂) နှင့် ဒီးမော့ဆို ညောင်ကိုင်း အခြေစိုက် (ခမရ-၄၂၇) တပ်ရင်းများအပြင် ဒီးမော့ဆိုမြို့နယ်ရဲစခန်းတို့တွင် ကရင်နီတပ်မတော် (KA) ၊ KNDF နှင့် PDF အဖွဲ့များနှင့်အတူ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများမှာ မနက် (၃း၀၀) နာရီ၊ (၆း၀၀) နာရီနှင့် (၁၀း၀၀) နာရီတို့တွင် ပြင်းထန်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထိုတိုက်ခိုက်မှုအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်ဖက်မှ ထိခိုက်ကျဆုံးမှုများ ရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁၂) ရက်နေ့ မနက်ပိုင်းတွင် လွိုင်ကော်မြို့နယ်၊ မှုံပြာကျေးရွာရှိ ရေကန်အနီးတွင် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များနှင့် KNDF တို့ တိုက်ပွဲဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ဖော်ဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁၃) ရက် ညနေပိုင်းတွင် လွိုင်ကော်မြို့ပေါ် ရပ်ကွက်အတွင်းတွင် နှစ်ဖက်ထိတွေ့တိုက်ပွဲများဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထိုတိုက်ပွဲများအတွင်းထိခိုက်ကျဆုံးမှုများကို အတည်ပြုနိုင်ခြင်းမရှိပါ။ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁၃) ရက်နေ့ ညနေချိန်တွင် တိုက်ပွဲများဖြစ်ပွားခြင်းမရှိဘဲ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့မှ ဒီးမော့ဆိုမြို့ ရပ်ကွက်များအတွင်း လက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့် ရမ်းသမ်း ပစ်ခတ်ခဲ့ သဖြင့် ပါဒေါဒူရပ်ကွက် အတွင်းရှိ နေအိမ်များပျက်စီးခဲ့ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher: Karenni Nationalities Defense Force
2022-02-15
Date of entry/update: 2022-02-19
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Description: "Background: An airstrike struck a displacement camp sheltering hundreds of people in Myanmar’s Kayah State yesterday reportedly killing at least three people, including two children. Fighting has intensified in southeastern Kayah and Kayin states since December. Some 162,000 people, including women and children, remain displaced in the two states after fleeing their homes since May 2021. More than 650 houses, monasteries, churches and schools have reportedly been burnt or destroyed in Kayah State alone. “We are deeply worried about the new wave of violence and fighting targeting civilians in southeast Myanmar. We condemn yesterday’s airstrike which affected hundreds of people. These were communities that had already been forced to flee their homes because of violence, and sheltered at the displacement site in search of protection and safety. This indiscriminate targeting and killing of civilians must end. “The fighting is causing death, more displacement and disrupting access to critical services and humanitarian aid. The de facto authorities are responsible under International Humanitarian Law to protect civilians, and we call on them to do their duty.”..."
Source/publisher: Norwegian Refugee Council
2022-01-18
Date of entry/update: 2022-01-18
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Sub-title: Up to 170,000 people are thought to have left homes in Myanmar’s Kayah state due to intensified fighting
Description: "Nan and her family had just one hour to gather their belongings and prepare to flee their home. A charity had offered to drive them away from Loikaw, the capital of eastern Myanmar’s Kayah state, to relative safety. She considered staying behind, with the plants, dogs and pigs that she had raised, but knew she had to leave. Since last week, Loikaw has seen intense fighting between groups opposed to last year’s military coup and the armed forces, which have launched airstrikes and fired artillery. An artillery shell had dropped near Nan’s fence, terrifying her cousin’s children, who ran to hide under their bed. “It was so loud,” she said. “My grandma was shocked and sweating, we had to give her medication to calm her down.” Other homes in Nan’s neighbourhood have been hit. The UN estimates that half the population of Loikaw have been forced to leave their homes, and that almost 90,000 people from Kayah state, formerly known as Karenni state, are displaced. Estimates by local media and a rights group are far higher, suggesting up to 170,000 people in Kayah, more than half of its population, have left their homes. Almost one year since the military seized power in Myanmar, the junta faces widespread and defiant opposition to its rule, and to the heinous violence it has inflicted on the public. Alongside a peaceful protest movement, people across the country have resorted to taking up arms, sometimes with support from established ethnic armed organisations. The military is now battling armed groups on multiple fronts. This includes in Kayah state, where it has been met with strong opposition, and has in turn launched brutal crackdowns. In December, more than 30 people, including children, were killed and their bodies burned in a massacre on Christmas Eve. On 7 January, a day after fighting intensified, Nan, 26, left her home along with her grandmother – who was in ill health – her parents, cousins and their children. The drive to Shan state, where they sought refuge, would normally take three and a half hours. Instead, it took the family three days. Fighting forced them to stop and take shelter on the way, only for the attacks to then become so close that there was no option to move again. “They continuously launched behind us as we moved forward,” she said. Ba Nyar, a spokesperson from Karenni Human Rights Group, said the situation was the most severe he had seen in the state and that 170,000 people are displaced. Many had sought refuge in Buddhist temple compounds, schools and community halls, he said. But people were struggling to access food or basics such as blankets or makeshift roofs to provide shelter at night, he added. After the recent escalation in fighting, the military has stopped all trucks coming in and out of Loikaw, cutting off supplies, said a volunteer at a refugee camp where about 100 families are sheltering. According to a report by the independent outlet Myanmar Now, the military has also cut off electricity to several areas of Loikaw, halting water supplies and wifi coverage. More than 650 houses and other civilian properties, including churches, monasteries and schools have been burned down or destroyed in Kayah state since May 2021, according to reports cited by the UN. This week, the UN special rapporteur for Myanmar, Tom Andrews, called on the junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing, to “immediately halt the air and ground attacks that junta forces have unleashed on Loikaw”, to lift the blockade of those seeking to escape and allow access for those seeking to provide aid and shelter. The UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, said it was gravely concerned by the escalating conflict and condemned the killing of at least four children across the country, and the maiming of others over the past week. Among those injured are a 12-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy from Loikaw, who were hit by heavy weaponry “following intense airstrikes and mortar attacks”, according to Unicef. Phil Robertson, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, said the military had “clearly decided to make an example of Loikaw, hitting it with indiscriminate artillery and aerial bombardment that puts civilians at serious risk of grievous harm”. “Humanitarian assistance is urgently needed, and NGOs, UN agencies and donors should bend over backwards to get assistance to displaced persons who require it,” he said. Few remain in Loikaw. One resident who is still in the city said there was shooting on Wednesday evening until 9pm, and that three military helicopters were seen in the sky. “I have to stay very quiet inside my house for my safety and eat what I have,” he said. “I gave everything else to my family.” He stayed in the city to watch over the family home, but will leave if fighting worsens. “I think we can still leave, but there are many military soldiers hiding on the roads,” he said. Nan’s family were stopped twice at checkpoints before they eventually reached relative safety in Shan state. Her grandmother, who had heart problems, died before they arrived. Nan believes it was the shock and trauma caused by the sound of the firing of artillery shells. Even as the family tried to pause their journey to hold a funeral for her at a nearby town, they were again forced to leave immediately due to worsening violence. Residents from the area were also forced to flee. Nan has considered returning home. As she drove past the mountains at the back of a truck, she longed to go back. “If my parents are safe, I’d like to go back there even if I have to move from one place to another when fighting takes place in the town,” she said. “I miss home so much.”..."
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Source/publisher: "The Guardian" (UK)
2022-01-14
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Sub-title: Without access to electricity or water and with military attacking Loikaw from the ground and air, half of the township’s population flees
Description: "The military carried out an airstrike on Loikaw, Karenni (Kayah) State on Tuesday, dropping seven bombs from two fighter jets on the capital’s Maing Lone ward in just over 15 minutes before 6pm, locals said. All of the explosives detonated. Located 120 miles from the junta capital of Naypyitaw, Loikaw Township has been the site of intensifying fighting between resistance forces and the Myanmar army since January 7. On January 6, the military council cut off access to electricity in several wards, including Maing Lone; the entire township has been without power since January 9. Without electricity, the water supply and wifi services had also stopped, locals said. “The primary problem that we have right now is the scarcity of the water supply. We no longer get water from the city development committee and the water purification factories have stopped operating, so we don’t have much drinking water left either,” a local man told Myanmar Now on the condition of anonymity. He added that the only way to access the internet in Loikaw was through mobile data from military-operated telecommunications providers MPT and Mytel. “The downtown area still has telephone and mobile internet services but there have been several glitches,” he explained. Locals from Maing Lone, Pan Kan and Ywar Tan Shey wards started fleeing on January 8 as the military shelled the township from the ground and air amid the utilities shutdown. Karenni media reports estimated on Tuesday that around 30,000 people—half of Loikaw’s population—had fled their homes. At the time of reporting, locals told Myanmar Now that the number who had left may have been as high as 90 percent of the town’s residents. “Most of the people who remain in the township are those who stayed behind to protect their homes against thieves, those who are stranded in monasteries, those who could not afford to travel, and those who couldn’t find transportation,” the local man said. Several empty homes Maing Lone ward had been broken into and looted, with thieves reportedly seen carrying stolen items away on 12-wheeled trucks. “They even stole entire cars, motorcycles and electricity generators and refrigerators. We didn’t dare to go take pictures of them, so we have no photos,” an eyewitness told Myanmar Now. The anti-junta People’s Defence Force chapter in Loikaw issued a statement on Tuesday warning that serious action would be taken against the thieves. An officer from the second battalion of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) said that the most recent clashes have been concentrated in Maing Lone and Daw Au Khu wards. Battles have also continued to break out in the nearby townships of Demoso and Shadaw this week, with the military deploying both jets and heavy artillery.According to a KNDF report, around 40 junta soldiers, three members of the allied resistance forces, and six civilians had been killed in the battles in Loikaw and Demoso on January 7 and 10. The number of people killed on Tuesday could not be confirmed at the time of reporting. Those who remain in Loikaw are concerned that in the coming days, basic necessities like rice and oil will no longer be available. “We can see that the flow of commodities has been cut off and that the basic commodities have become very scarce,” the first local said. It could not be confirmed whether junta restrictions had officially been implemented on the importing of goods into the township, but few trucks dare to deliver supplies amid the ongoing fighting. “The shop owners closed all of their shops and fled. There are only two to three shops that remain open now. Even so, I think they, too, are going to flee after they’re all sold out. Because all the shops are closed, commodity trucks don’t come into the town anymore,” another local woman said. She added that displaced persons in neighbouring townships also rely on these shops to meet their basic needs, and the shortages would be felt by communities fleeing the fighting throughout the region..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2022-01-12
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Description: "Myanmar’s military regime launched air strikes on Loikaw, the capital of Kayah State, on Saturday and Sunday, forcing thousands of local residents to flee their homes. Fierce clashes broke out between resistance groups and junta troops in the town on Friday. Residents of at least three of 13 wards in Loikaw have fled since Saturday and more are fleeing, according to humanitarian groups helping the displaced people. “Around 2,000 people were evacuated on Saturday and Sunday. We evacuated them together with the Red Cross Society. Nearly half of the town has fled the fighting. Though the fighting took place in Mong Lone, Pan Kan and Ywa Tan Shae, people from the other parts of the town have also fled out of fear,” a charity worker told The Irrawaddy on Sunday. People who remain in the town are staying in their homes, and businesses have also closed, he said. While his group is helping to evacuate displaced people to churches, many others have also fled the town on their own, he said. “People don’t go out because helicopters were hovering. The town is deserted. Those who were not able to flee in time remain in their homes. But we are evacuating people at their request. We pick them up at their homes when they phone us,” he added. Six civilians were killed in Friday’s fighting as junta troops attacked civilian targets, said the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF). The following day, the regime shelled several wards in Loikaw as junta jets dropped bombs. Some residents have fled to Shan State, Mandalay, Naypyitaw and other towns, but some are only taking shelter at local churches in Kayah. Local administrators in Nyaungshwe in southern Shan State at the border of Kayah State have warned locals not to shelter displaced persons from Kayah, and displaced people were also not allowed to enter Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, according to the Shan State-based news agency Shan Herald. Junta troops and local People’s Defense Force (PDF) members clashed in Loikaw, and junta helicopters were hovering over the town on Sunday morning. “Many people remain in the town, though others are fleeing. We have not yet fled. We have packed things up, and got the car ready to flee. If the situation is OK, we will move tomorrow. But we heard gunfire today, and choppers were hovering,” a resident of Mong Lone ward told The Irrawaddy on Sunday. More than half of Kayah State’s 300,000 population have already been displaced by fighting following the February coup, and the majority of Loikaw’s some 150,000 residents are fleeing the junta’s weekend aerial attacks, according to locals. A Loikaw resident told The Irrawaddy on Monday that “the town is deserted and many more, including my family, are planning to leave today and tomorrow.” Junta attacks from the air were also heard in Demoso, Shardaw and Moebye and Pekhon towns. Helicopters could be heard hovering above Hpasawng Township, said the Loikaw resident. At least 30 junta soldiers including a lieutenant died and many more were injured in Saturday’s fighting, according to the KNDF. The group said it shot down a gunship and destroyed an armored vehicle in the fighting, and also seized weapons and ammunition from the regime. Junta troops also clashed with resistance groups in Demoso on Sunday, and at least 10 junta soldiers died in the fighting despite air support. “Some 20 junta soldiers are believed to have been injured, and at least 10 are thought to have died. The regime fired artillery and also carried out aerial attacks. One of our comrades died and three were injured. One of them had to have one of his kidneys removed. He is stable now,” a KPDF spokesman told The Irrawaddy. Some civilian houses were damaged in the junta shelling and air strikes and junta troops also deliberately set some houses on fire to cremate their colleagues’ bodies, said the spokesman. “Junta troops burnt the bodies of their fellows in civilian houses. We have found three charred bodies of junta soldiers,” he said. The KPDF said it had also seized weapons and communications devices from the regime in the Demoso fighting. The military regime, according to Loikaw residents, has intensified its attacks in Loikaw, deploying helicopters to regain road access to other parts of Kayah State via Loikaw. Resistance groups have blocked road access since last month, preventing the regime from sending reinforcements and food supplies..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2022-01-10
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Description: "1. The Burmese military junta has significantly intensified its military offensives that include the use o f airstrikes, tanks, and artillery in Loikaw, Demoso, Pruso, and Shadaw townships o f Karenni State this week. Attacks by the ju n ta ’s troops in Loikaw on January 7 killed at least 6 innocent civilians and besieged hundreds o f civilians for the whole day that required a deadly rescue operation where one rescue worker was killed. 2. The ju n ta ’s indiscriminate airstrikes, artillery shelling, and firing that continued on January 8 both during the day and at night have forced several thousands o f civilians from Loikaw to flee for safety. Several hundred civilians remained besieged in Mine Lone sub-township o f Loikaw. More nighttime airstrikes are taking place in Mine Lone sub-township as o f the release o f this statement. 3. Additionally, the ju n ta ’s airstrikes in Thai-Karenni border areas on January 7 have also forced over 1200 internally displaced persons to flee into Thailand while about 200 at a different border crossing point remained unable to cross the border. 4. Karenni National Progressive Party is especially concerned over Burmese military ju n ta ’s activities, particularly its use o f airstrikes to target innocent civilians. Therefore, we solemnly call on international governments and organizations to take immediate action against the junta and provide timely humanitarian assistance and protection for the civilians under attacks..."
Source/publisher: Karenni National Progressive Party
2022-01-08
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Description: "The Ministry o f Human Rights (MOHR) of the National Unity Government o f the Republic o f the Union o f Myanmar expresses its outrage at the military junta’s Christmas Eve Massacre o f civilians in Hpruso Township o f Karenni State. The MOHR extends its heartfelt condolences to the families o f the victims and to the Karenni community at large. On 24 December 2021, members o f Light Infantry Division 66 forced an unconfirmed number o f civilians from their vehicles in Hpruso Township o f Karenni State. After binding their hands, the junta troops shot, stabbed or set the civilians on fire, burning many alive. Four Border Guard Force Battalion members who attempted to negotiate the release o f the civilians were also bound, tortured and shot dead by the junta troops. As many as 42 civilians were murdered in the massacre. Preliminary medical analysis has thus far identified 26 males, including a man with a disability and two humanitarian workers,1 and five females including a girl. While identification efforts are continuing, some bodies were so badly destroyed by fire that they are impossible to identify or to distinguish from the incinerated remains o f other victims. Five children are among the missing. The MOHR welcomes the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s swift condemnation o f the incident and its call for accountability.2 It similarly welcomes the statements issued by UNICEF and by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, each expressing outrage.3 The military junta in its own public response offered no denial o f the massacre and admitted to having set fire to the vehicles.4 While it claims that the civilians were "terrorists", this makes no account for the presence or slaughter o f women, children, and humanitarian workers. Furthermore, the fact that victims were immobilised and bound before being murdered proves that these killings were war crimes. The Christmas Eve Massacre is just the latest in a chain o f acts o f terror. With its attempted coup d ’etat o f 1 February 2021 broadly regarded to have failed, the military junta is escalating the scale and nature o f its atrocity crimes to provoke terror. Burning people alive is one such tactic. In a similar incident in Salingyi Township o f Sagaing Region on 7 December, 11 male villagers including five children were rounded up by junta troops, tied up, then set on fire. An earlier act of terror and collective punishment was the junta’s torture and mass killing of at least 40 men and boys in Kan i Township of Sagaing Region during July 2021.5 Another still is its use o f military vehicles to target and mow down peaceful protestors, as it did in Kyimyindaing Township o f Yangon on 5 December, killing at least five civilians, injuring several more, and drawing UN condemnation.6 These terrorist acts are part o f a widespread and systematic strategy in place across Myanmar and directed by the junta at the highest levels. Min Aung Hlaing and other senior junta members must be held personally responsible and brought to justice for their crimes. The Security Council, acting on its call for accountability, must hold an immediate plenary meeting on Myanmar and adopt a resolution that blocks the flow o f arms and cash to the junta and that refers the junta’s atrocity crimes to the International Criminal Court. The Security Council must also take immediate steps to list the military junta for what it is - a terrorist organisation.7..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Human Rights
2022-01-05
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Sub-title: New evidence surfaces implicating the Myanmar military in the killing of nearly 50 people and the destruction of evidence in Hpruso Township
Description: "Families of the victims of a massacre in Karenni (Kayah) State’s Hpruso Township and a doctor who carried out post-mortem examinations of their remains have disclosed new details concerning the dozens of people slain and burned by the military on December 24. The National Unity Government (NUG) and the Karenni State Consultative Council (KSCC) shared photos, medical records and evidence gathered from the site of the crime in an online press conference on Monday. Bo Bo, the deputy township police chief of the Karenni State Police Force—an anti-junta law enforcement network made up of police officers taking part in the CIvil Disobedience Movement (CDM)—speculated that up to 49 people could have been killed on the Moso-Kwaing Ngan road near Moso village, some two kilometres northwest of Hpruso town. Myanmar Now initially reported that at least 35 charred bodies and multiple burned vehicles were found by members of the resistance group the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) at the roadside site early on Christmas morning. They accused Myanmar army troops present in the area of committing the massacre. Bo Bo said on Monday that the group of doctors who carried out the post-mortem examinations had managed to carry out autopsies on 31 of the bodies, but that the others were completely destroyed in the fire, crumbling to ashes when touched, and collected in three body bags. Twenty-six of the victims who could be examined were identified as male, including two boys estimated to be under 17 years old. Six were determined to be female, including a young girl under the age of 12, Bo Bo said. A doctor who performed autopsies on the bodies and who spoke at the press conference on the condition of anonymity confirmed the Karenni police officer’s summary and added that the girl would have been between the ages of 10 and 15. “I think everyone can imagine whether it would have been possible that a young child under the age of 18 tried to shoot them,” said the doctor, who is also taking part in the CDM, commenting on the unlikelihood that the victims could have instigated the attack by opening fire on the soldiers believed to have murdered them. “They killed innocent civilians and burned the bodies to destroy the evidence of their crime,” he added. The doctor also confirmed that several of the bodies he examined had their hands tied behind their backs, were gagged, or had perforations to their chests and lungs. He added that they only managed to retrieve the bodies three days after the incident because the military continued to fire artillery shells at anyone who attempted to enter the area. Laboratory analysis had not yet determined if the victims were burned alive. Describing the experience of carrying out the post-mortem examinations, he said, “That was the day I saw dead bodies en masse who were murdered in the cruelest and most inhumane manner I have ever seen in my entire life.” Along with the bodies, six trucks, two civilian cars, two tractors and six motorcycles were also burned, Karenni State police officer Bo Bo said, adding that the bodies they were unable to examine were found wedged between the three trucks, which were carrying barrels of oil. He added that two of the bodies which were able to be identified were confirmed to be staff members of the international aid group Save the Children, which had reported their staff missing following the incident. Four other bodies were determined to be members of a Border Guard Force (BGF), a militia operating under the junta. The BGF members had been seen in Moso village at 11am on December 24, and had reportedly attempted to negotiate the release of civilians being held by the military. It was later reported that they had been executed. Family members of the victims also attended Monday’s online press conference. The wife of Moso resident Bu Reh confirmed that a tractor found destroyed in the fire was the one that her husband had been driving when he left their home. Crying, she explained that Bu Reh had left on the tractor at around 7am and never returned. “There had been shooting that day and I had to run away like an animal,” she said, “Our family is going through a lot of pain. We haven’t been able to eat and we spend our days crying. It’s so upsetting because the children are still so young.” She added that Bu Reh was only carrying a knife as he had been planning to gather bamboo, so it was not possible that he tried to shoot at the soldiers, which has been implied by the military. The military council released a statement on the same day as the massacre that they fired shots at the seven “suspicious” vehicles because they refused to stop when they told them to do so. The junta alleged that people in the vehicles shot at the soldiers from the trucks and they were “captured dead” after a shootout. The statement did not address the reports of murder or the burning of evidence. Junta information officer Gen Zaw Min Tun told BBC Burmese that 25 members of the anti-junta resistance group the People’s Defence Force died in the incident, and that among them was one woman. The families of the victims, the NUG leadership, and the Karenni State police officer collectively rejected the military’s claims that the victims of the massacre were PDF fighters who refused to stop their vehicles for the junta troops. They maintain that they were civilians. Aung Myo Min, the NUG’s human rights minister, pointed to the fact that all of the bodies and vehicles were burned in a single location, indicating that the military was likely attempting to destroy evidence of crimes that occurred there. In response to a family member demanding justice for their slain loved ones, Aung Myo Min promised that the NUG would file a case against the junta in the International Criminal Court, as well as send details of the massacre to the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar established by the UN’s Human Rights Council. “I can sympathise with the victims and we are doing our best to take legal action against the military council and the leaders of the coup regime who are most responsible for these atrocious crimes,” he said..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2022-01-04
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Description: "Recent attacks on civilians in many parts of Myanmar, and most recently in Kayah and Karen States, have resulted in thousands of people being displaced. The appalling act of violence perpetrated by the military regime in Kayah State on 24 December, killing and burning more than 35 people, including women and children, as well as humanitarian workers, underscores the urgent need to hold those responsible accountable. The targeting of civilians and humanitarian actors is unacceptable and a blatant violation of human rights and international law, including humanitarian law. Full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all people in need, and the full protection, safety and security of humanitarian and medical personnel must be ensured. In view of the escalating violence in Myanmar, increased international preventive action is required, including an arms embargo. The EU also stands ready to impose further sanctions against the military regime. Since the military coup on 1 February, the EU has imposed targeted sanctions on the Myanmar military, its leaders and entities. In addition, EU financial assistance to the government was halted and assistance that could be seen as legitimising the military regime was frozen. The EU supports the efforts of the United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar, as well as the ASEAN Five Point Consensus, working towards a peaceful resolution of the current crisis in Myanmar. The EU continues to provide humanitarian assistance, in accordance with the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence. This year, it allocated €24.5 million in humanitarian aid to address the immediate needs of displaced and conflict-affected communities and related to COVID-19, as well as €65 million in support of basic needs of the civilian population, including education and livelihoods..."
Source/publisher: Delegation of the European Union to Djibouti and IGAD
2021-12-30
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Description: "The United States condemns the attacks committed on December 24 by the Burmese military in Kayah State, which killed at least 35, including women and children and two staff members of the international aid organization Save the Children. We are alarmed by the military regime’s brutality across much of Burma, including most recently in Kayah and Karen States. The targeting of innocent people and humanitarian actors is unacceptable, and the military’s widespread atrocities against the people of Burma underscore the urgency of holding its members accountable. The international community must do more to advance this goal and prevent the recurrence of atrocities in Burma, including by ending the sale of arms and dual-use technology to the military. Since the February 1 coup, the United States has imposed targeted sanctions against the Burmese military, its leaders, and their financial interests, disrupting their access to the international financial system. We will continue to work with our partners and allies to promote accountability, including by supporting the UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, while also continuing to press for a restoration of Burma’s path to peace and democracy. We call on the Burmese regime to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers and to grant free and unhindered access to those providing humanitarian assistance for the people of Burma..."
Source/publisher: United States Department of State
2021-12-28
Date of entry/update: 2021-12-29
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Description: "၁။ နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများ ကူညီစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအသင်း (AAPP) ၏ မှတ်တမ်းပြုချက်များ အရ (၂၄-၁၂-၂၀၂၁) ရက်နေ့အထိ စစ်အာဏာရှင်တော်လှန်ရေးကာလအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လက်ချက်ကြောင့် ကျဆုံးခဲ့ရသူ စုစုပေါင်း (၁,၃၇၅) ဦး ရှိပါသည်။ အပြစ်မဲ့ ပြည်သူစုစုပေါင်း (၈,၂၅၄) ဦး ဖမ်းဆီးချုပ်နှောင်ခံထားရပြီး ယင်းအနက် (၁၈) နှစ်အောက် ကလေး (၂) ဦးအပါအဝင် (၃၉) ဦးမှာ သေဒဏ်ချမှတ်ခံထားရပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ်ခံရသောကြောင့် တိမ်းရှောင်နေရသူ (၁,၉၆၄) ဦး ရှိပါသည်။ အမှန်တကယ်အရေအတွက်များမှာ ယခုထက် ပိုမိုများပြားနိုင်ပါသည်။ ၂။ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၂၄) ရက်နေ့၊ နံနက်ပိုင်းကလည်း ကယားပြည်နယ်၊ ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်တွင် ကလေးငယ်များ၊ အမျိုးသမီးများအပါအဝင် စစ်ဘေးရှောင် အရပ်သားပြည်သူ (၃၈) ဦး ထက်မနည်းကို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီက ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပြီး မော်တော်ယာဉ်များနှင့်အတူ ရက်ရက်စက်စက် မီးရှို့ သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။ Save the Children in Myanmar ဝန်ထမ်းနှစ်ဦးသည်လည်း အနီးအနားရှိ ရပ်ရွာများတွင် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာလုပ်ငန်းများ ဆောင်ရွက်အပြီး တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ရာ ရုံးသို့ ပြန်နေစဉ် ယင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုအဖြစ်အပျက်နှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ကြုံတွေ့ခဲ့ရပြီး ပျောက်ဆုံးလျက်ရှိကြောင်းနှင့် ယင်းဝန်ထမ်းများ စီးနင်းလာသော မော်တော်ယာဉ်မှာလည်း မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရကြောင်း အတည်ပြုချက်ရရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၃။ ထို့အပြင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီသည် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်၊ လေးကေကော်ဒေသအပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့အပြားတွင် ပြည်သူကို ရန်သူသဖွယ်ဆက်ဆံပြီး မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း၊ လုယက်ဓားပြတိုက်ခြင်း၊ ဖမ်းဆီးနှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ လက်နက်ကြီးများ ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်းနှင့် လေကြောင်းဖြင့် ဗုံးကြဲပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းတို့ကြောင့် ထိခိုက်သေဆုံးမှုများစွာ ဖြစ်ပေါ်လျက်ရှိပြီး အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများစွာ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ၍ တိမ်းရှောင်နေရလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ယခုကဲ့သို့ လုပ်ဆောင်မှုများသည် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်စုများအပေါ် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုများနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ၄။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနအနေဖြင့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်တော်လှန်ရေးကာလအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လူမဆန်စွာ နှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကြောင့် ကျဆုံးခဲ့ရသော ပြည်သူများ၏ မိသားစုများနှင့်ထပ်တူ ကြေကွဲဝမ်းနည်းရပါကြောင်း၊ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အဆိုပါအကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များကို ပြင်းထန်စွာ ပြစ်တင်ကန့်ကွက်ရှုတ်ချ ကြောင်းနှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် အပြီးတိုင် ချုပ်ငြိမ်းရေးနှင့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီရရှိရေးတို့အတွက် အစွမ်းကုန် ဆက်လက်ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း အလေးအနက်ထား၍ ထုတ်ပြန်အပ်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Health, National Unity Government of Myanmar
2021-12-26
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Description: "1. We, the KNPP. strongly condemn the SAC troops' burning alive of over 35 Karenni civilians; including women, children, and an INGO staff members; who had managed to escape from nearby fighting. On December 24, 2021, after arresting and beating the civilians, the SAC troops from LIB No. 108 under command of Division 66 splashed them with gasoline and burned them alive on trucks near Mosoe Village, Pruhso Township. They also burned the Chilians' vehicles. 2. Additionally, four men from the Border Guard Force of Karenni Nationalities Peoples' Liberation Front, who jumped in to negotiate for releasing the civilians, were tied with their hands behind their backs and shot in their heads by the SAC's gunmen. 3. Both cases obviously prove that the SAC's army is both violating the international norms in war and also intentionally committing crimes against humanity. 4. Therefore, we urge the international governments and communities, including the United Nations, to abruptly isolate the SAC by taking strong actions against them without delay..."
Source/publisher: Karenni National Progressive Party
2021-12-25
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Description: "1. The National Unity Government (NUG) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar received reports of a new civilian massacre by junta forces in Karenni State on 24 December 2021 (Christmas Eve). The NUG expresses its deepest condolences to families, people of the Karenni State and the people who suffered and suffering from inhumane violence of terrorist military group as the Karenni State home to majority Christian population witnessed such a heinous terrorist act in Christmas. 2. On the morning of 24 December 2021, the terrorist military group conducted Special Clearance Operation near Moso village in Hpruso Township. Light Infantry Battalion 108 under Light Infantry Division 66 blocked the road, subsequently detained an unconfirmed number of these villagers and travelers and destroyed their properties. Four members of Border Guard Force Battalion (1004) who attempted to negotiate the release of the civilians were also reportedly executed by junta forces with close-range headshots. According to source information, between 35-40 villagers were bound and burnt to death together with 11 vehicles. 3. The terrorist military junta have exercised extreme terror tactics against the Myanmar people by arresting, killing and burning people alive. A villager from Than Pho village in Kale Township in Sagaing Region was detained by junta troops on 4 December 2021 and his remains were found burnt on 7 December 2021. On On 7 December 2021, at least 11 villagers including five children were burnt alive by terrorist military group in Salingyi Township in Sagaing regio. On 12 December 2021, five villagers including one person with disabilities were killed and burnt in Gaaung Kwe village in Myaing Township in Sagaing Region. 4. As the world celebrates Christmas and its message of peace, the NUG repeats its demand on the international community to act immediately and decisively to end the military junta’s escalating war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Myanmar people..."
Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
2021-12-25
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Sub-title: အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်က ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်အတွင်း ခရစ္စမတ်အကြိုနေ့ အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
Description: "၁။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၄ ရက် (ခရစ်စမတ်အကြိုနေ့) တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုသည် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်ပြီး၊ လူမဆန်သည့် အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုကို ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်၊ ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်တွင် ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအနေဖြင့် ခရစ်ယာန်ဘာသာဝင်များ အထွတ်အမြတ်ထားသည့် ခရစ္စမတ်ကာလအတွင်း ခရစ်ယာန် ဘာသာဝင်များ အများစုနေထိုင်သည့် ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်သည် ယခုကဲ့သို့ စက်ဆုပ်ဖွယ် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုကို ကြုံတွေ့ခဲ့ရသဖြင့် သေဆုံးသူများနှင့် ထိခိုက်သူများ၏ မိသားစုဝင်များ၊ ပြည်နယ်သားများ၊ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ကြုံတွေ့ခဲ့ကြရသော၊ ရင်ဆိုင်ကြုံတွေ့နေကြရသော ပြည်သူများနှင့် ထပ်တူကြေကွဲ ဝမ်းနည်းရပါကြောင်း ဖော်ပြလိုပါသည်။ ၂။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့ မနက်တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုတပ်ဖွဲ့များက ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်၊ ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်၊ မိုဆိုကျေးရွာအနီးသို့ နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေးပြုလုပ်လာခဲ့ပြီး လမ်းကိုပိတ်ကာ ဒေသခံရွာသူရွာသားများ၊ လမ်းသွားလမ်းလာများအပါအဝင် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများကို ဖမ်းဆီးရိုက်နှက်ခြင်း၊ ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများကို ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းတို့ ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သည်။ နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ်ရင်း (၁၀၀၄) မှ တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် လေးဦးက အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများကို ဖမ်းဆီးထားခြင်းအား ပြန်လည်လွှတ်ပေးရန် သွားရောက်ညှိနှိုင်းခဲ့ရာ ၎င်းတို့လေးဦးကို ဖမ်းဆီးကာ ကြိုးဖြင့်တုတ်၍ ဦးခေါင်းကို အနီးကပ်ပစ်ခတ်သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ကလေးသူငယ်၊ အမျိုးသမီးနှင့် သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုများအပါအဝင် အပြစ်မဲ့ ပြည်သူ ၃၅-၄၀ ဦးခန့်ကိုလဲ ကြိုးဖြင့်တုတ်ကာ မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ ယာဉ်ကြီး၊ ယာဉ်ငယ် ၁၁ စီးကိုလည်း တစ်ပါတည်းမီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့သည်။ ၃။ ယခုဖြစ်စဉ် မတိုင်မီကလဲ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုသည် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအား ဖမ်းဆီးသတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ အရှင်လတ်လတ်မီးရှို့သတ်ခြင်းစသည့် ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၄ ရက်နေ့တွင် စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း၊ ကလေးမြို့နယ်၊ သံဖိုကျေးရွာမှ ရွာသားတစ်ဦးကို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုက ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၇ ရက်နေ့တွင် မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခံထားရသည့် ၎င်း၏ ရုပ်အလောင်းကို ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိခဲ့ကြရသည်။ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၇ ရက်နေ့ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း၊ ဆားလင်းကြီးမြို့နယ်၊ ဒုံးတောရွာတွင် အသက် ၁၈ နှစ်အောက် ကလေးသူငယ်ငါးဦးအပါအဝင် ရွာသား ၁၁ ဦးကို မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့သည်။ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၂ ရက်နေ့ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း၊ မြောင်မြို့နယ်၊ ခေါင်းကွဲကျေးရွာတွင် မသန်စွမ်းသူတစ်ဦးအပါအဝင် ရွာသား ငါးဦးကို မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့သည်။ ၄။ ယခုအချိန်တွင် ကမ္ဘာတစ်ဝှမ်း ခရစ်စမတ်ပွဲတော်ကို ဆင်နွှဲနေကြပြီး ပွဲတော်၏ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသတင်းစကားကို မျှဝေသယ်ဆောင်နေကြချိန်ဖြစ်သည့်အလျောက် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုက မြန်မာပြည်သူလူထုအပေါ် ပိုမိုးတိုးမြှင့်ကျူးလွန်လာနေသော စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများနှင့် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို ချက်ချင်းရပ်တန့်စေရေးအတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းက ထိထိရောက်ရောက် ဝိုင်းဝန်းဆောင်ရွက်ကြပါရန် ထပ်လောင်းတောင်းဆိုပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
2021-12-25
Date of entry/update: 2021-12-26
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Description: "၁။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်၊ ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်၊ မိုဆိုကျေးရွာတွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်မ (၆၆)၊ ခမရ(၁၀၈)ဉီးဆောင်သောတပ်များက အင်အားအလွန်အကျွံသုံး၍ စစ်ဆင်ရေးပြုလုပ်ကာ အပြစ်မဲ့အရပ်သားတို့၏ နေအိမ်များနှင့် ပစ္စည်းများကို ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ပြီး ကလေးသူငယ်နှင့် အမျိုးသမီးများ အပါအဝင် အပြစ်မဲ့အရပ်သား (၃၅) ဦးကျော်အား ကြိုးတုပ် ဖမ်းဆီးခေါ်ဆောင်သွားပြီး ဒန်ပါကား (၃)စီး၊ ကားငယ်(၄)စီး၊ ထော်လာဂျီနှင့် ဆိုင်ကယ်(၅)စီးတို့နှင့် အတူ လက်စဖျောက် မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့မှုအပေါ် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ အနေဖြင့် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ရှုတ်ချလိုက်သည်။ ၂။ ထိုသို့ ဖျက်ဆီးမှုများနှင့် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကို တားဆီးရန်ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့သော နယ်ခြားစောင့် တပ်ရင်း(၁၀၀၄)မှ တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် (၄) ဦးကိုလည်း ဖမ်းဆီးကာ ဦးခေါင်းကို သေနတ်ဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်သတ် ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ယခုကဲ့သို့လုပ်ဆောင်မှုများသည် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်စုအပေါ် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျူး လွန်သည့် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုဖြစ်ပြီး ယခင်နှစ်ပေါင်း ၇၀ ကျော် အချိန်မှစ၍ ယခုအချိန်တိုင် ပြည်သူတို့အပေါ်၌ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များက ကျူးလွန်နေသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်နေမှုများ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ၃။ ‌ခရစ်ယာန်လူမျိုးတို့၏ နေ့ထူးနေ့မြတ်ဖြစ်သည့် ခရစ္စမတ်ပွဲတော်ကျင်းပသည့် ကာလ၌ပင် ယခုကဲ့သို့ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့၀င်များက ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ် များသည် မတရားလုယူထားသည့် ၎င်းတို့၏ အာဏာတည်မြဲရေးနှင့် အကျိုးစီးပွား မထိခိုက်ရေး နိုင်ငံတ၀ှမ်းရှိ လူနည်းစုတိုင်းရင်းသားများအပါအ၀င် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူပြည်သားများအပေါ်၌ ပိုမို ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်သည့် လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များကို ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်မည့် သဘောထားပင် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ၄။ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီသည် ပြည်တွင်း ဥပဒေများ၊ နိုင်ငံတကာ ဥပဒေများနှင့် ကျင့်၀တ် များကိုသာမက အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာလူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကြေညာစာတမ်းပါအချက်များကိုပါ ပြောင်ပြောင် တင်းတင်း ချိုးဖောက်လျက်ရှိပြီး ပြည်သူတို့အပေါ်၌ အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များ စနစ်တကျ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်နေခြင်းကြောင့် ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံများနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုက် အ၀န်းက မြန်မာပြည်သူတို့၏ အသက်ရှင်သန်ခွင့်နှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးတို့အတွက် ကာကွယ်ပေးရန် အမြန်ဆုံးနှင့် အရေးတကြီး လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။ ၅။ ထိတ်လန့်ဖွယ် ဖမ်းဆီးသတ်ဖြတ်ခံခဲ့ရသည့် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများနှင့် မိသားစုတို့အတွက် များစွာ ထိခိုက်ကြေကွဲရပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့များက ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် ရာဇ၀တ်မှုများအတွက် ထိရောက်သော အရေးယူမှုများ ပြုလုပ်သွားနိုင်ရေး ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ အနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုက်အ၀န်းနှင့် ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher: Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)
2021-12-26
Date of entry/update: 2021-12-26
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Description: "Since the deadly military coup d’état in Myanmar on February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military junta has killed, tortured, and otherwise persecuted civilians, forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands nationwide. In Karenni State—also known as Kayah State—rather than ensure humanitarian aid reached civilians in need, the junta arbitrarily arrested aid workers, destroyed civilian food stocks and non-military objects, prevented the delivery of food and medical supplies at military checkpoints, and delayed or denied administrative approvals for local, national, and international aid organizations. This flash report finds that these ongoing acts may constitute war crimes. While military-led attacks on civilians increase and impunity for atrocity crimes is further entrenched, the military junta continues to deny any wrongdoing. To ensure lifesaving aid for an increasing number of civilians forcibly displaced in the country, this report recommends that Thailand, India, China, and Bangladesh authorize agencies to deliver cross-border humanitarian aid to Myanmar, directly as well as through community-based partners.
Source/publisher: "Fortify Rights"
2021-11-10
Date of entry/update: 2021-11-10
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Description: " People arrested: In Karenni State the total number of people arrested since the coup has increased from 135 to 150 during the past two weeks. Three villagers were arrested on August 6, from Kayan Thayar village in Loikaw Township. Their names were Khun Nyein Chan, Khun Bey and Khun Poe O. They were tortured while being detained on suspicion of being connected to the KNDF. They were released on August 7. On August 11, another three youth from Daw U Khu quarter in Loikaw township were arrested at their homes by SAC. It appears they were arrested on suspicion of connections with a PDF. On August 14, four male villagers from Daw Takleh and Htee Phoe Kaloe village in Demawso township, including a 15-year-old boy, were arrested while they were going back to their village from an IDP camp to get some rations for their families. They were tied up with rope and brought to the SAC camp on Daw Tadah Mountain. On August 14, SAC troops came to the home of social worker Roselynn (also known as Ma Ei) in Naung Yang, quarter of Loikaw Town and arrested her mother and brother and 3 young volunteer aid workers who were in the house. The SAC troops said that if Ma Ei gave herself up, they would free those who were arrested.  Ongoing military aggression The SAC has declared it is continuing its unilateral ceasefire from August to October, but in practice, it has increased clearance operations into the areas where the KNDF and IDPs are staying, and clearly has no intention of stopping its military offensives in Karenni State. On August 3, SAC troops under Infantry Division 66 clashed with KNPP and KNDF troops four times while moving from Tah Leh village to Marcrawshay village in Pruso township. 11 SAC soldiers were killed and over 20 were injured during the clashes. At 4 pm, the SAC shelled and fired machine guns into Nan Peh village in Bawlake township for no apparent reason, then entered the village and looted goods and money from shops. On August 4, SAC troops under Infantry Division 66 were carrying out an operation against the KNPP and KNDF, when they clashed with KNPP and KNDF troops between Kupra mountain and Bethu (upper) village in western Demawso township. 3 SAC soldiers were killed and some injured. On August 4, at 8:45 am, SAC troops entered Naung Yang quarter of Loikaw town and shot at some houses without giving any reason. Some houses were damaged, and a young woman was wounded in her knee by an explosive shell. On August 6, at 10 pm, two youths riding a motorbike in Loikaw town were shot from behind by SAC troops. One was hit in the back and one was wounded in one arm. On August 8, 300 SAC troops clashed with KNPP and KNDF troops between upper Bethu village in Pekhon township and Domoko village in Pruso township. 10 SAC soldiers were killed during the clash. On August 9, in the evening, fighting took place between SAC and KNPP/KNDF troops near Beya village in western Pruso township. On the same day, while carrying out military operations, SAC troops from Pinlaung township in Shan State clashed with KNDF troops near Lawei village and Kaung Ei village in Pekhon township, Shan State On August 10, over 120 CDM staff from Loikaw Teik Chauk Lone building (government housing) were evicted by SAC. On August 12, SAC troops clashed with KNPP/KNDF troops near Htee Klu Daw village in Pruso township. Five SAC soldiers were killed and three were injured. During this clash, KNDF reported that they seized some small guns and one mortar from the SAC. After this, on the same day, SAC troops started deploying more soldiers in and around Pruso town. A clash took place near Kadah Lah village, close to Pruso town, between SAC and KNPP/KNDF troops. LIB 102 and LIB 531 based in Demawso township launched artillery shells to support their troops in Pruso township, injuring a woman from Htee Por Hso village in Pruso township in her thigh, and a male villager in his arm from Nyow Khone village, Demawso Township. On August 14, at 7 am, SAC troops together with PNO troops from Pinlaung township entered Pekhon township, and clashed with combined troops from Pekhon PDF, Moebye PDF, KNDF and KNPP near Pin Pon village and Lahwei village. The fighting lasted about 11 hours. Two of the PDF were injured, and five SAC soldiers and six PNO soldiers were killed. On August 15, 100 SAC troop reinforcements in 35 military trucks were heading from Loikaw to Pekhon, when they were ambushed by KNPP and KNDF troops at Kaung Maing village near Moebye town.  Situation of IDPs and humanitarian aid The number of IDPs continues to increase due to the ongoing fighting. Following the fierce SAC offensive around Pruso town on August 12, a further 674 villagers from nearby villages fled to the jungle as IDPs. The growing number of IDPs is causing increased humanitarian needs. Apart from the need for food and shelter, medical aid is urgently required due to the growing spread of Covid 19 in IDP camps. In Hsin IDP camp, in eastern Loikaw township, 47 Covid positive cases have been found during the past two weeks..."
Source/publisher: Karenni Civil Society Network
2021-08-17
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Sub-title: The ethnic army says it will do whatever it takes to beat the junta and form a federal union.
Description: "The ethnic Karenni Army (KA) marked the 73rd anniversary of its founding Tuesday vowing to “fight to the end” to rid Myanmar of its military dictatorship and create a federal union with like-minded groups in the multi-ethnic country. The KA is one of at least 16 ethnic armed organizations thought to be active in Myanmar, a country of 54 million people with 135 official ethnic groups. The insurgent groups control territory along Myanmar’s borders with Bangladesh, China, India, and Thailand. Their histories – and grievances with the national military – stretch back to when the then Burma gained independence from British colonial rule in 1948. “We were once a separate state but came under the rule of Burmese dictators,” KA leader Col. Phone Naing told a ceremony in in territory in Kayah state it controls along the border with Thailand, referring to the junta that has led Myanmar for nearly 50 of the country’s 73 years of independence. “Under their rule, everyone knows how we have suffered bullying and oppression. The world knows. The reason for the formation of KA was to free ourselves from that situation and live in peace.” Phone Naing said that the Karenni had always been able to overcome military invaders in the past and would do so again with the current junta, which seized power from Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) government in a Feb. 1 coup. The KA, the armed wing of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) with a force estimated at 1,500 troops, was joined by representatives of KA allied groups and members of the anti-junta Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). The KNPP urged its military wing to stay dedicated to the goal of forming a federal democratic union in Myanmar along with allied groups. Collaboration between anti-junta movements made up of ethnic majority Bamars and longstanding ethnic armies, including military training in remote regions, has enabled opponents of the military regime to inflict casualties on better armed junta troops and sustain opposition to the coup, analysts say. Speaking to RFA’s Myanmar Service after Tuesday’s ceremony, a CDM police officer who joined the KA after the Feb. 1 coup said nothing would deter the ethnic army from its fight against the military regime. “For more than 70 years, we have been fighting to regain a Karenni state,” said the officer, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Together with the Karenni people, we will fight together to the end.” A young KA soldier told RFA that a federal union is the only way to ensure adequate representation for Myanmar’s many indigenous groups. “Only through such a system would we be able to protect our basic rights and achieve equality,” he said. “We have made our decision to fight until the end to get rid of the military dictatorship.” Peace efforts The KNPP signed a regional state-level ceasefire agreement on March 7, 2012 under previous President Thein Sein’s military-affiliated civilian government, but has yet to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) that 10 other ethnic parties have signed beginning in 2015. The 10 rebel groups that signed the NCA suggested in June that the deal—inked in the presence of international observers and Myanmar’s highest legislature—remains in place, despite an already flailing peace process that was all but destroyed by the unpopular junta’s coup. However, they say they will not pursue talks with the military, which they view as having stolen power from the country’s democratically elected government. Kayah state was relatively free of fighting until late May, when the military launched an offensive in the region. There are now daily clashes between junta troops and Karenni forces in the state’s Demawso, Phrusoe and Mobye townships, as well as in Phekone township on the border with southern Shan state. An activist who declined to be named for safety reasons recently told RFA that around 1,000 refugees have fled to Karenni refugee camps on the border with Thailand since the last round of largescale clashes in the region, although he said that many more are living with close relatives or in the jungle to avoid the fighting. “There are a lot of people left in the jungles since the last big clashes,” he said, adding that many are living in makeshift camps there because they “don’t dare return home.” “Others have no home to return to. Some are staying in the forests because their families are separated. Some did not return because their loved ones were killed during the fighting.” RFA has documented that more than 170,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Kayah state in the more than six months since the coup. They join more than 500,000 refugees from decades of conflict between the military and ethnic armies who were already counted as IDPs at the end of 2020, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a Norwegian NGO. The junta says a landslide victory by the NLD in the country’s November 2020 general election was the result of voter fraud, but has yet to provide evidence of its claims and has violently repressed widespread protests, killing 999 people and arresting 5,712 since the coup, according to the Bangkok-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). Amid nationwide turmoil, the military has stepped up offensives in remote parts of the country that have led to fierce battles with several local militias..."
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Source/publisher: "RFA" (USA)
2021-08-17
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Description: "Myanmar's military junta, which has branded itself as caretaker government, has announced the extension of ceasefire with conditions. However, taking advantages of the uniliteral ceasefire, the junta has deployed more troops across Karenni (Kayah) State who are thre atening lives and properties daily as follow; 1. Claiming to pursue local people resistance forces, junta’s troops have entered villages and threatened residents, broken into their homes, and looted their properties including chicken and pigs. 2. Jungle patrols and searches in villages by junta’s troops pose increased danger to lives and safety of villagers who are in hiding from recent fighting and villagers who are faming, and cause further displacement. 3. Jungle patrols and attempts to control more areas by junta’s troops have also increased the number of daily armed clashes with Karenni Amy. 4. Servaral incidents have also been reported on junta’s troops' orders to remove and p rohibit Covid-19 p revention facilities and programs initiated and supported by locals in their communities. Karenni National Progressive Party is very concerned over Burmese military junta's activities that have endangered community peace, the rule of law, and public safety and have worsened the risk of starvation among the affected populations. Therefore, Karenni National Progressive Party urges humanitarian assistance groups in the country as well as international governments and organizations to pro vide speedy assistance and take measures to protect the people..."
Source/publisher: Karenni National Progressive Party
2021-08-12
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Description: "Regime forces used helicopters to attack civilian resistance fighters in Kayah (Karenni) State’s Demoso Township from the air on Monday afternoon, according to a member of the Karenni People’s Defence Force (KPDF). The KPDF was formed by Karenni youth fighters mostly armed with traditional weapons—such as handmade rifles—to defend their region against the junta’s offensives. The KPDF member told Myanmar Now that the military’s troops opened fire on them from a helicopter and also dropped bombs in their vicinity, starting from around 5pm. “Do you hear the sound of airplanes? They were shooting at us from a helicopter, bombing and opening fire. We have to crouch down low now,” he said over the phone. At the time of reporting, at least five bombs had been dropped from above, he added. Clashes broke out when KPDF members ambushed regime soldiers at Dawh Ngan Kha ward in Demoso at around noon, he said. Following the attack, the military launched some 20 rounds of heavy artillery—such as 120mm shells—from the base of Artillery Battalion 356 in the neighbouring town of Loikaw, he added. “We attacked with light weapons but they responded with artillery shells. They are still firing now and we can’t go outside yet,” said the KPDF member from Demoso. Clashes were still ongoing at 6:30pm and the regime reportedly used long-range weapons including howitzers, according to the KPDF. Myanmar Now was unable to verify which arms were used in the battle. At the time of reporting, there was no information available regarding casualties. The KPDF claimed that 106 regime soldiers had been killed in clashes in Demoso and Loikaw, as well as in Moebye in southern Shan State, where fighting broke out on May 21. Around 26 civilians, including multiple KPDF members, were also killed in those battles. The regime authorities have blocked entrances into Kayah State from Shan State to the north, and transportation routes to Loikaw have also been cut off. Tens of thousands of locals in Kayah State fled their homes following the recent intensified fighting and are in urgent need of food and access to medical treatment, locals have reported..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2021-05-31
Date of entry/update: 2021-06-01
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Sub-title: The Karenni People’s Defence Force went on the offensive over the weekend, but now faces an overwhelming show of force
Description: "As armed resistance to the Myanmar military’s February 1 coup continues to grow around the country, a new front has opened in the struggle between regime forces and civilians fighting back with homemade weapons. Since late last week, major clashes have been reported in an area of southern Shan State and northern Kayah (Karenni) State about 200km east of the capital Naypyitaw and about the same distance north of Kayin State’s Hpapun (Mutraw) District, which has also seen a dramatic escalation of hostilities. Unlike the situation in Kayin State, where the conflict is between the military and the Karen National Liberation Army, an established ethnic armed group, the fighting in Shan State’s Pekhon Township and Demoso, Bawlakhe and Loikaw in Kayah State mainly involves regime forces and the Karenni People’s Defence Force (KPDF), part of the nationwide anti-coup resistance movement..... The KPDF goes on the offensive: The KPDF went into action last Friday after soldiers entered Demoso, a town less than 20km south of the Kayah State capital Loikaw, the day before and opened fire in residential areas. According to the KPDF, the regime’s troops also used explosives during their assault on the town, which resulted in the arrest of 13 people, including four civil servants who had defected from the regime. The KPDF’s first response was to seize and burn down three outposts in Demoso and Bawlakhe townships with the help of a local ethnic armed group. Three police officers were killed during those initial clashes. The group made it clear that it had prepared carefully ahead of the attacks, which it saw as part of the nationwide resistance movement called for by the National Unity Government. “When the People’s Defence Force was formed, we started setting up township communication offices. We built our own strongholds to protect people. We warned [the junta’s authorities] from the beginning not to cross the line,” said a KPDF member who was involved in the fighting in Demoso, speaking on condition of anonymity. After the regime faced casualties in Demoso, it approached the KPDF for negotiations the next day, he added. However, the KPDF members did not respond to this overture because they didn’t trust the military council, which they knew was sending reinforcements to Demoso. Rather than back off, the civilian-led resistance force overran another local police outpost on Sunday morning, this time in Moebye, a town in southern Shan State’s Pekhon Township, on the border with Kayah State. Regime troops suffered heavy casualties in the attack on the Moebye police outpost, where at least 20 of the junta’s forces were killed and four police officers were taken into custody by the KPDF. “They call it a police station, but there were only three or four police there and all the others were soldiers. We ambushed the station because it had become a military outpost,” said the KPDF member. The Karenni youth-led resistance force spent two days preparing to overrun the police station, he added. On Sunday morning, they surrounded it and warned the soldiers and police inside to drop their weapons and surrender, he said. “If they had just surrendered their weapons, it would have been better for both sides. There wouldn’t have been so many casualties, and we wouldn’t have had to waste our time or bullets,” he said. At around 9:30am, the KPDF opened fire from outside the entrance to the station and a shootout began. “Some of them ran, and some of them took cover to fight back. But most fled, and there weren’t enough holding us back, so there were a lot of casualties,” said the KPDF member, who estimated that there were around 30 soldiers and police at the station. Three hours later, between 15 and 20 members of the regime’s forces were killed, and four more were captured alive, he added. One KPDF member was killed, and four others were injured.....Fending off reinforcements: Later the same day, the KPDF launched two more attacks to prevent military reinforcements from entering the area. The reinforcements were coming in three trucks from Pekhon in the north and six from Loikaw in the south. The first group was attacked in Hkwang Mai, a village on the way from Pekhon to Moebye. “Some trees were cut down and put across the road in Hkwang Mai, so they had to start walking from there. There was a short fight and the PDF members there had to retreat a bit. But the reinforcements didn’t get to the police station in Moebye until after we overran it,” the KPDF member said. The six trucks from Loikaw were ambushed at Kone Thar, a village about halfway between Loikaw and Moebye. “The PDF youths in Kone Thar also held them off for a while. After a brief shootout, they retreated. These reinforcements also arrived only after we’d captured the station. They had to walk the whole way,” said the KPDF member. The KPDF burned down any structure in the police station compound that the soldiers could use for shelter and dispersed before the reinforcements reached the scene. “After we scattered, the reinforcements went into the station to observe the situation of their fellow soldiers. Then they started firing their guns. They kept it up late into the night, threatening residents,” the KPDF member said. Although Light Infantry Battalion 422 is stationed only a mile away, near the Moebye dam—the main dam of the Lawpita hydropower project—it didn’t send any troops to the police station to defend it. Instead, it simply fired at the KPDF fighters from a distance, according to a member of the group who took part in the attack. Likewise, troops based at an outpost in Waryikawkhu, a village about five miles from the Moebye police station, fired heavy artillery but did not provide any other support, he added. The Global New Light of Myanmar, a junta-run newspaper, said on Monday that “some of the security members were killed in the attack” in Moebye and some were still “missing”. The report described the local resistance force as “terrorists” and said the police outpost was attacked by a combined force of about 100 armed fighters. Resistance fighters in Demoso also attempted to capture a police station in the town during a three-hour battle on Sunday afternoon, local media reported. However, the KPDF members were forced to retreat when army reinforcements, including some in armoured vehicles, arrived.....Civilians fall victim to reprisals: Following the attacks, regime forces started raiding local villages and terrorising civilians by opening fire with guns and heavy artillery. One victim was a 50-year-old woman who was injured after being shot by soldiers while riding from Moebye to Loikaw on her motorbike. At around 8pm on Sunday, a man on a motorbike was also shot on the Moebye-Loikaw road. He sustained a stomach wound and later died. The next day, the military imposed day-time curfews in Moebye and Loikaw. The junta’s armed forces are now stationed at the burned-out police station and a football field near Moebye, according to a local resident. He said the soldiers fired shots randomly on their way to Loikaw and Pekhon. Around 50 youths were arrested on Monday but were later released after questioning. Those still in Moebye are currently taking shelter in the town’s churches, the local added. More than 10,000 villagers from the surrounding area have fled their homes, while many inside the town are unable to leave due to the regime’s campaign to crush the armed uprising with lethal force. “Some people don’t want to leave, but those who do can’t anyway, because there’s no way out. They’re afraid they’ll be shot at if they try to leave,” said a Moebye resident who spoke to Myanmar Now on Tuesday. At least nine civilians have been killed since Monday, including a young man who was shot in the head by regime troops who had tied his hands behind his back. Lt-Gen Soe Htut, the junta’s minister for home affairs, arrived in Kayah on Tuesday. The junta-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Wednesday that Lt-Gen Soe Htut had “inspected” Moebye and Pekhon police stations and provided "cash assistance" to the police, soldiers, and their family members from coup council chairman Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing. The report, however, did not mention the casualties at and damage to the Moebye police outpost after it was attacked by Karenni resistance fighters. It said Lt-Gen Soe Htut also visited Loikaw prison to inspect “prison healthcare services, accommodation and meals.” Meanwhile, there were also reports that the military was using drones as part of its offensive against resistance forces. “There were drones. Every time one passed, shells fell immediately. They were so fast we couldn’t keep up with them. They’re very advanced,” said a KPDF fighter from Demoso. On Monday, multiple military planes were seen landing at Loikaw’s airport, carrying soldiers and equipment. Armed only with handmade weapons, the KPDF fighters are up against a military that is far better equipped. There are even concerns that the regime could start carrying out airstrikes, as it has been doing in Kayin State since late March. Despite the prospect of an overwhelming show of force, however, many resistance fighters remain convinced that it is still possible to defeat the junta. “I’d like to call on the entire nation to rise up. Then this dictatorship could end in a short time,” said one KPDF member. Editor's Note: This article was updated on May 26 to include details of Lt-Gen Soe Htet's visit..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2021-05-26
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-26
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Topic: civilian resistance fighters, Demoso Township, IDP camp, Internally Displaced People, junta troops, Karenni People’s Defense Forces, Kayah State, KPDF, Loikaw, Moebyel Town, Pekon Township, regime forces
Topic: civilian resistance fighters, Demoso Township, IDP camp, Internally Displaced People, junta troops, Karenni People’s Defense Forces, Kayah State, KPDF, Loikaw, Moebyel Town, Pekon Township, regime forces
Description: "Civilian resistance fighters in eastern Myanmar’s Kayah State seized and destroyed a police security checkpoint north of Loikaw, the Kayah capital, on Wednesday morning. The Karenni People’s Defense Force (KPDF) burned the captured outpost in Htee Se Khar in Loilen Lay town, 15 miles north of Loikaw and close to the border with Shan State, according to a member of the KPDF. The attack comes as military tensions rise in Kayah and security has been tightened in downtown Loikaw, with junta forces checking the cell phones of residents. Many people are staying in their houses, while workers from other areas of the country are returning to their hometowns. Fighting between regime soldiers and the KPDF broke out on May 21 and over forty junta troops, including police, have since been killed. The KPDF has attacked and destroyed police stations in Kayah State’s Demoso Township and Shan State’s Pekon Township and Moebyel Town. Regime forces have fired artillery into community quarters and villages following the shootouts with the KPDF. Clashes continued in Demoso Township at dawn on Wednesday. A KPDF member said a woman was killed by junta forces gunfire, while another man was seriously injured. Five KPDF members were confirmed killed after heavy fighting near the Ngwe Taung Dam in Demoso Township on Tuesday. “During the May 25 fighting, we lost five of our men. We also heard there were many casualties from the junta side. However, we can only confirm seeing five dead regime soldiers,” said the KPDF member on Wednesday. Displaced People Some 70,000 residents from around 150 villages in Demoso, Loikaw and Shan State’s Pekon Township have been displaced in the five days of fighting since Friday, according to relief workers. In Pekon and Moebyel Town, over 20,000 people have been displaced, while more than 50,000 are displaced in Kayah State, including 10,000 in Demoso and 6,000 in Nam Mae Khon, according to Pekon, Loikaw and Demoso residents. One relief worker said the villagers have fled into the hills, while town residents are sheltering at monasteries, churches and in elders homes. “We need shelters in the rural areas with the rainy season beginning. The elders and children also need medicine,” he said. Another relief worker in Pekon said the town residents and people from nearby villages have fled their homes. The displaced villagers are taking temporary shelter at five different places, as well as scattering across Pekon and Moebyel to stay with relatives. He added that they are in need of emergency help, as the basic food items the villagers brought with them will run out after a week if the fighting continues. A spokesman of the management committee for the internally displaced people (IDP) in Pikin Kaw Khu, a village near the Kayah-Shan border, said that there are about 1,500 people who fled from Pekin Kaw Khu and Hawyi Kaw Khu villages. They have brought some food with them, but if they are going to be displaced for a long time, people will need rice, medicine and shelter from the elements. “We opened an IDP camp in Pekin Kaw Khu. But after artillery fire landed in the camp, we now have to go to another place,” he said. One villager from Kone Thar village said that more than 2,000 people have fled alongside him. “We have rice, but not enough for a long time. We need shelters, clean water and medicine,” said the villager. Relief workers, camp management leaders and locals who The Irrawaddy contacted urged the junta forces not to fire at civilians and the IDP camps. The relief worker from Pekon added, “There is no guaranteed safe place for the IDPs, because the junta forces even fire at the churches where people are sheltering and white flags are flying.”
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2021-05-26
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-26
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Sub-title: The shelling came after local resistance fighters ambushed a convoy of soldiers travelling to southern Shan State as reinforcements
Description: "Four people died and eight were critically injured as the coup regime’s forces bombed a Catholic church near the Kayah State capital of Loikaw in the early hours of Monday morning. The Tatmadaw fired artillery shells at the church in Kayan Tharyar village at around 1am, shortly after its troops were ambushed on a nearby road by local resistance fighters. People who fled the shelling were chased by soldiers firing guns and hid in nearby caves, a local resident said. The ambush came as soldiers travelled from the Kayah capital Loikaw to reinforce troop numbers in Moebye, southern Shan State. Civilians-turned-fighters from the Karenni People’s Defense Force (KPDF) said they killed at least 20 members of the regime’s forces in Moebye on Sunday and another 26 outside the nearby town of Demoso. They also captured four soldiers. Their members attacked the reinforcements from Loikaw with guns, delaying them on their way to Moebye. “The KPDF ambushed them near the Kayan Tharyar village and the reinforcements did not arrive at Moebye in time,” the local resident said. Soldiers then entered the village and began shooting. “So the locals got scared and ran to the church to hide,” the resident added. Rescue workers on Monday were unable to send the eight people injured in the shelling to the hospital in Loikaw because there was still fighting along the six-mile stretch of road that leads there, a local resident told Myanmar Now. No further details about the four people who died were available at the time of reporting. The military council’s spokesperson could not be contacted for comment about the killings at the church..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2021-05-24
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-25
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Sub-title: Local sources report that over two days, nine Karenni villagers are killed in military offensives, shellings, and what appear to have been roadside executions by the coup regime
Description: "At least nine civilians were killed by the junta’s armed forces in the Kayah (Karenni) State capital of Loikaw between Sunday night and Tuesday morning. Regime troops suffered heavy casualties during fighting with the local Karenni People’s Defence Force (KPDF) on Sunday in Moebye in southern Shan State and Demoso in Kayah State. In retaliation, the Myanmar military used both light weaponry and heavy artillery to attack civilians that night and over the following two days in Demoso and Loikaw townships. Nine civilians were killed and at least eight others seriously injured in the assaults. In the early morning hours on Tuesday, regime forces began launching offensives against civilian resistance groups in Demoso, according to a KPDF member. Starting at 4am, clashes occurred in three villages: Daw Ngan Khar, Daw Tama Nge and Ngwe Taung. Three villagers from Daw Ngan Khar were killed in the attack, the KPDF member told Myanmar Now. Clashes in Daw Tama Nge halted at around 9am. Five KPDF members were injured in the village; one critically. Meanwhile, regime forces in Loikaw opened fire indiscriminately at around 10am, with the shooting ongoing at the time of reporting on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday afternoon, a young man was shot in the head by regime troops with his hands tied behind his back. The execution took place in an unconfirmed location between Noekoe and Yayyo villages in Loikaw Township, according to updates shared on social media by a Karenni youth online community. Four villagers were also killed and eight others were seriously injured when the junta’s forces fired artillery shells at Kayan Thaya Village Church in Loikaw Township at around 1 am on Monday. On Sunday night, local man Hla Htike was fatally shot in the abdomen by the army while driving a motorcycle on the Moebye-Loikaw Road, according to locals. The junta’s armed forces raided Yayyo village and Narnattaw quarter, both on the outskirts of Loikaw, on Monday morning, and there were also shootings in Shanpine and Mong Lone quarters, according to locals. “They stormed into Yayyo village first, and then Narnattaw. We had to resist the army. At around 3:30pm, they withdrew. Some of them were in plainclothes, but they were armed with guns,” a member of KPDF told Myanmar Now. He said that there were no casualties on either side of the mutual shootout in Narnattaw, and that the military council had deployed a small number of troops to the west of Narnattaw, while the rest of the troops had moved to downtown Loikaw. On Monday evening, residents described Loikaw as silent except for the sound of artillery shells, which were fired until around 6:30pm. Using loudspeakers early on Monday morning, the military urged residents of Loikaw not to leave their homes after 9am. Residents told Myanmar Now that they heard at least six flights land at Loikaw Airport, the last which arrived at 3pm. “The planes landed at Loikaw Airport. I saw soldiers coming down. We don’t know how many soldiers were on each plane. Security was tightened at the airport. They were also seen unloading things,” a local said. The junta’s forces attacked Moebye and Demoso townships with heavy artillery on Sunday, firing some 30 shells in the area from 5pm until 10pm, a resident told Myanmar Now. While residents remain in downtown Loikaw, tens of thousands of people outside of the town itself have fled their villages throughout Demoso, Loikaw and Moebye townships, according to Karenni youth who are assisting the displaced persons..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2021-05-25
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-25
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Description: "One civilian was killed and six others were injured in a clash between the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) and the Arakan Army (AA) in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State at around 1.00 a.m. on Sunday. U Ni Tun, 70, was struck in the leg by shrapnel when an artillery shell hit his house in the village of Kan Thone Sint, north of Kan Sauk hill in Kyauktaw. He died of blood loss while he was being taken to a hospital. “An artillery shell fell on U Ni Tun’s house at around 1 a.m. [on Sunday]. He died en route as we were taking him to the hospital in a motorboat,” Kan Thone Sint village administrator U Hla Maung told The Irrawaddy. The artillery shell was fired from east of the village, and villagers kept the shrapnel, he said. In another incident, six civilians were injured when artillery shells struck their houses in Thingana and Sabel Hla villages on the Kalandan River, local residents said. “The fighting took place at around 1 a.m. [Sunday]. Tatmadaw Navy [ships] heading to Paletwa [in Chin State] along the Kaladan River were fired upon from the forest. The Navy returned fire, and [an artillery shell] hit our village,” Ko Kyaw Thaung, a resident of Sabel Hla Village, told The Irrawaddy..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy"
2019-09-16
Date of entry/update: 2019-09-16
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Description: ''In this commentary, the Union of Karenni State Youth and LAIN Technical Support Group provide a chronology of events, outlining how arrests and the government’s handling of events have compounded rather than resolved political frustrations and inter-community understandings.General Aung San is commonly known as the “independence hero of Burma”. His legacy is, however, looked upon differently by the Bamar (Burman) majority and the country’s ethnic nationality peoples. Whilst the Bamar majority consider him a hero for bringing their people independence, ethnic nationality peoples respect him for his promise to bring their people equal rights in a true union. This is a promise that remains unfulfilled to this day, a failure that goes to the heart of the current crisis. After decades of conflict and suffering, Karenni youth are attempting to use democratic rights to achieve the pledges of autonomy, freedom and equality that Aung San promised at the country’s independence in 1948. Sadly, rather than delivering peace and federal reform, the National League for Democracy government is prioritising the building of statues to Aung San in Kayah State and other ethnic nationality lands. The local peoples consider this a misuse of public funds and an attempt to erase their own history, continuing a practice of downplaying ethnic minority cultures by a policy known as Bamanisation. Based on these concerns, a course of non-violent public actions, directed towards the state government, began in June 2018. The chronology is described below...''
Source/publisher: Transnational Institute (TNI)
2019-06-28
Date of entry/update: 2019-07-20
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Description: ''The Myanmar authorities should immediately investigate the alleged excessive use of force by police against protesters in Karenni State and hold those responsible for abuses to account, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 12, 2019, police fired rubber bullets and water cannon at ethnic Karenni youth who attempted to move beyond police barricades, injuring more than 20 protesters. Since February 1, police have arrested 55 people in the Karenni state capital for protesting against the installation of a statue of Gen. Aung San, the father of Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Gen. Aung San is considered the founder of modern-day Myanmar and of the Myanmar army, the Tatmadaw. On February 12, an agreement was reached between protest leaders and the Karenni state government to drop all charges in exchange for promises to suspend further protests for one month while the opposing sides discuss the fate of the statue...''
Source/publisher: Human Rights Watch
2019-02-15
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-18
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Description: ''On December 21, 2018, the Burmese Commander-in-Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing announced a unilateral ceasefire in five regional command areas, including the Eastern Command area which covers Karenni State. However, the Burma Army has built four new military camps in Karenni State since the ceasefire announcement, raising suspicions among local communities that they are preparing for renewed war, not peace. On December 23, 2018, 20 soldiers from LIB 54 led by the second battalion commander moved into Daw Pu village, Daw Pu village tract of Demawso township and built a new army camp there. The village administrator (headman) wrote a complaint letter to the township administrator but there has been no response to it. On December 24, 2018, 20 soldiers from Mawchi-based LIB 428 led by second battalion commander Aye Chan Soe came in and built a new camp at Nat Ye Thweh Pauk (Bo Than Win Gone), five miles away from Htoo Chat timber storage ground in Pasaung township. On January 3, 2019, 60 soldiers from LIB 337 based in Bawlake town combined with the troops from the new camp in Nat Ye Thweh Pauk patrolled along the west of the road between Loikaw and Mawchi. On January 1, 2019, 20 soldiers from Burma Army LIB 429 led by battalion commander Han Win Tun came in and built a new camp near Daw Wiraw village and Thiri Dah village in Shadaw township. Villagers have collectively sent a protest letter to their MP, but no action has been taken in this matter. On January 7, 2019, 30 soldiers from Bawlake-based LIB 337 led by Battalion commander Zaw Myo Tun came into the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) area and built a new camp at Nam Mahn Kee in Mae Set township saying that they would temporarily base themselves there for only three months...''
Source/publisher: Karenni Civil Society Network via Progressive Voice
2019-01-21
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: ''နောက်ဆုံးအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးပြုလုပ်စဉ် ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်အတွင်း စစ်တပ်စခန်းအသစ်များ တည်ဆောက်ခြင်းသည် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်မှ စစ်ရေးပြင်ဆင်မှုများပြုလုပ်နေကြောင်းကို သံသယများဖြစ်ပေါ်စေခြင်း...''
Source/publisher: Karenni Civil Society Network via Progressive Voice
2019-01-21
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-22
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Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: "This briefing paper analyzes how Burma Army exploitation of natural resources in Karenni State is undermining efforts by the Karenni National Progress Party to seek peace, as happened over twenty years ago. In 1995, the Karenni National Progress Party (KNPP) signed a ceasefire agreement with the then military regime. However, after only three months, the Burma Army launched an offensive to drive out KNPP from its bases in eastern Karenni State, in order to profit from logging in the area. Tens of thousands of villagers were forcibly displaced, and rampant logging by the Burma Army and military-linked businesses led to widespread deforestation. The KNPP signed a new ceasefire agreement in 2012, but the Burma Army continued to benefit from logging, even after a logging ban by the NLD government in 2016-2017. On December 20, 2017, after KNPP troops uncovered an illegal shipment of timber by the Burma Army, three KNPP troops and one civilian were shot dead by the Burma Army. The incident heightened tension between KNPP and the Burma Army, and caused a significant loss of trust among the Karenni people in the peace process..."
Source/publisher: Karenni Civil Society Network via "Progressive Voice"
2018-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2018-04-19
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Description: "John Bosco is like any 23-year-old who dreams of good education and a career, and who likes to read, use the internet, and play football. Unlike many young people, however, John?s life is confined within the fences of Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee camp in Thailand. John is ethnic Karenni and comes from a big family in a rural village with no access to electricity or water. Although John grew up under militarization and afraid of ?the sounds of guns shooting and bombs exploding,” his main priority was education. John?s family wanted him to have a better life and a future, and they sent him to the Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee camp in 2009. He hasn?t been able to see his family since. In the camp, John says that restrictions on movement and travel are increasing hand in hand with decreasing aid. Like so many others, John is now trapped in one of the most isolated refugee camps in Thailand, which remains out of the electricity grid and is surrounded by landmines. John still considers himself lucky; he doesn?t have to worry about repatriation as much as the many others who have no family in Burma and no place to go."
Source/publisher: Burma Link
2015-03-24
Date of entry/update: 2016-03-17
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Description: "A new report by the Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN) raises concerns about international ?peace support” programming amid st increasing Burma Army militarization in Karenni State after the2012 ceasefire with the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP). The report ?Where is Genuine Peace?” exposes how a pilot resettlement project of the Norway-led Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI) in Shardaw Township is encouraging IDPs to return to an area controlled by the Burma Army where their safety cannot be guaranteed. The MPSI claims that between June 2013 and September 2014 it supported 1,431 IDPs to return to 10 Shadaw villages forcibly relocated in 1996. However, KCSN found only about a third of these IDPs in the villages, most of whom were working-age adults returning to carry out farming, but not daring to return permanently due to fears of renewed conflict. As in other parts of Karenni State, the Burma Army has been reinforcing troops and fortifying its positions in Shadaw, where there is a tactical command centre and over 20 military outposts. ?Instead of encouraging IDPs to return home be fore it is safe, international donors should be trying to ensure that the rights of conflict-affected villagers are protected,” said one of KCSN. ?There must be pressure on the government to pull back its troops from the ethnic areas and start political dialog ue towards federal reform.” KCSN also criticizes the MPSI for fuelling conflict by ignoring Karenni-managed social service organizations that have been providing primary health care and other support to IDPs in Shadaw for decades. MPSI?s health support was through the government system, which remains highly centralized and dysfunctional in Karenni State. ?Donors should not just give one-sided support to expand government services into ethnic conflict areas. This won?t be effective, and will only increase resentment and fuel conflict,” said KSWDC. The report also raises concerns about rampant resource extraction after the ceasefire, land confiscation, military expansions and lack of transparency around dam plans on the Salween and its tributaries in Karenni State. KCSN is calling for a moratorium on large-scale infrastructure and resource extraction projects in Karenni State until there is genuine peace." [from the KCSN press release of 5 December, 2014]
Source/publisher: Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN)
2014-12-05
Date of entry/update: 2015-01-08
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Description: "...KCSN believes that only through negotiation between both parties to seek solutions to the problems in Karenni State, as agreed during the State Level and Union Level talks, can genuine and permanent peace be achieved. To reach sustainable peace, there must be mutual respect, mutual trust building, and cooperation in implementing the ceasefire agreements, not only in words but through practical action. During President Thein Sein?s inaugural speech, he laid down plans for reform and stated that to establish lasting peace in the country, the three basic principles of peace, stability, and development must be accepted and established to pave the way for reform. However, unless there is genuine peace that ensures long-term stability, development projects will bring no sustainable benefit to the people. In Kachin State, during 17 years of ceasefire, large numbers of development projects were set up in Kachin State, but after the breakdown of the ceasefire, a total of 25 bridges were destroyed, 100,000 refugees and IDPs had to flee from their homes, and more than 50 schools had to be closed down. Based on the Kachin people?s experience, it can be concluded that without political settlement that ensures equality for everyone, there can be no sustainable development for the people of Burma..."
Source/publisher: Karenni Civil Societies Network (KCSN)
2012-10-31
Date of entry/update: 2012-11-05
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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