Pa?an Situation Update: September 2011

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"This report includes a situation update submitted to KHRG in September 2011 by a villager describing events occurring in Pa?an District in September 2011. It details an incident in which Tatmadaw and Tatmadaw Border Guard soldiers forced local villagers to porter military supplies and equipment while wearing Border Guard uniforms during a joint attack on a Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) encampment at Kler Law Hseh. The villager who wrote this situation update also reported that since this attack Border Guard soldiers have been based in the Kler Law Hseh area and have forced villagers to porter or make payments in lieu of portering, as well as perform forced labour on military-owned agricultural projects. The villager also reported two distinct incidents in which Tatmadaw and Border Guard troops have confiscated villagers? land in order to build a military camp and cultivate bean plantations."

Source/publisher: 

Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)

Date of Publication: 

2011-10-24

Date of entry: 

2012-01-29

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English

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