News: (1) Gas Pipeline and Railway Security Troops Unintentionally Shoot Local Residents Free From Culpability... Commentary: Release of Political Prisoners Can Move Forward ?National Reconciliation?... Report: A Year Later, Villagers Still Displaced Unable to Return Home in Ye and Yebyu Township:- Summary: "In April 2010, the New Mon State Party (NMSP) refused the Burmese government?s request for the NMSP to transform into part of the Border Guard Force (BGF), in which it would essentially provide security for the Burmese government. Tensions between both sides rose because of the NMSP?s rejection and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC – the former Burmese military government) began a recruitment project in local villages, forcing villagers to serve as militiamen and committing a variety of human rights abuses. During that period, HURFOM conducted interviews with local residents who fled their homes to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) sites, and documented the commission of crimes against humanity and assorted human rights abuses, on those IDPs, who lived in Ye Township, Mon State, and Ye Pyu Township, Tenasserim Division. Villages that faced militia recruitment during this period were Alaesakhan village, Hlar-chaung-pyar village, and Ta-nee Tha-kyar village in Ye Pyu Township, and Ma-kyi village, in Ye Township. Villagers in these areas were confronted with execution, extortion, torture, and forced relocation by the Burmese Army [at that time, the SPDC], accused of supporting rebel groups, and used as human shields leading the Burmese army [SPDC]. Consequently, many of these villagers, along with their entire families, were forced to flee their homes, leaving their orchards and other properties behind"; Background; Torture, Execution, Forced Labor and Extortion; Travel Restrictions and Impacts on Incomes; Livelihoods at the IDP Sites; Nai Htay Win:; Forced Labor; Conclusion