"This report combines text and photos to describe events from September to November 2005, when the SPDC violated the ceasefire by sending a large Army column to attack and occupy a Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) base in Nyaunglebin District. Just before the rice harvest was to begin, the SPDC Army shelled local villages, captured the base, and began systematically destroying the local villagers? homes, utensils and implements to undermine the ability of villagers to live in the area. The villagers evaded them and moved into the hills east of the river, where they established shelters close by - from which the men could monitor SPDC activities - and further in the hills, where their families could set up food supplies and care for children and the elderly. Meanwhile, KNLA units harassed the SPDC column and prevented it from crossing the Shwegyin River to pursue the villagers. On November 3rd the SPDC withdrew, having failed to bring any villagers under their control. The villagers quickly returned to begin a much-belated rice harvest, which will probably yield less than half the required rice for the coming year..."