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Subject: S.H.A.N : TORTURE AND MURDER BY SLORC TROOPS AT MURNG NEN

S.H.A.N : TORTURE AND MURDER BY SLORC AT MURNG NEN (  AN AREA FORMERLY
UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE MTA )
August 21, 1996

Narng Poo, wife of Zarae Kaeng Haao in Murng Thar ( an area formerly controlled
by MTA and now occupied by SLORC troops, opposite Wiang Haeng district, Chiang
Mai province of Thailand ), reported to the SLORC troops that a man named Ai
Khin had stolen her gold. Ai Khin, a native of Nar Parng village, Ha Wan circle,
Kae See township, was working at Murng Nen. He was arrested by SLORC soldiers on
June 19, 1996, and was tortured and asked not only about the stolen gold but
also about hidden weapons as well. After unbearable torture, he told them he did
not know about the hidden weapons, but a man named Ai Mon might know. Ai Mon was
the son of Loong Yan Na and Pa Kham, who live in Murng Nen.

At the time, Ai Mon was at Look Maw Kharng village, two and a half hours' walk
from Murng Nen. So the soldiers went after him and arrested him and his brother
Ai Sarn, together with 4-5 other villagers. The troops made them stand in line
and fired their guns aiming just above their heads. After that they questioned
and tortured Ai Mon. They tied and beat him, burned him, cut his lips, cut his
flesh, buried him in the ground up to the neck, forced him to eat the flesh
which they had cut from Ai Khin's thigh, and cut his flesh and make Ai Khin eat
it. Ai Mon, unable to endure the agony, revealed a place where they found
rockets, mines and ammunition - enough for a mini-truckload. But, saying he had
not given them all, they continued to torture Ai Mon and some other villagers.

Ai Mon's daughter, Narng Horm, aged 2, was tied with a rope and hung upside down
by the legs, and they put a knife to her throat in front of Ai Mon, threatening
to cut it if he did not tell them the truth. They also tied up and beat both his
parents and his wife.

They arrested a woman named Pa Lu ( wife of Pu Lao ) who has a daughter named Ee
Pee,aged 8, and a 10-month-old adopted baby ( whose mother had died in labour ).
They bound Ee Pee's hands and dragged her along, forcing her to go into the
forest barefoot to search for the weapons the whole day. The 10-month-old baby
was left crying alone for one day and one night.

They also arrested a man named Loong Soi, aged 43, a native of Murng Kerng, and
accused him of being an MTA member who had not surrendered and was keeping
hidden property. They beat him with 2x3 wooden planks, while asking the
whereabouts of the concealed weapons until he passed out. When he came to, they
beat him again with their fists until his face was swollen all over. Then, on
July 7, 1996, they forced him to watch while they tortured Ai Mon and Ai Khin,
threatening him that he would suffer the same fate if he did not tell them the
truth. In front of Loong Sai, who had been dragged out from the bamboo
foot-locks in which he had been kept during the previous days, they pricked out
Ai Mon's eyes and let them hang dangling over his face, cut off his ear, pierced
his nose and hung the ear to it,and cut many deep scars into his arms. They cut
off a lump of flesh from Ai Khin's right thigh, pierced it with a stick, heated
it on a fire and forced Ai Khin himself to eat it. All this was done while both
were still alive and while Loong Soi was forced to watch it. Finally, they
killed both Ai Mon and Ai Khin, and took Loong Soi to Murng He to search for
more hidden weapons.

Others who were beaten during that time were : 
- Ai Sarn, Ai Mon's brother
- Narng Zung, Ai Sarn's wife, and their daughter Ee Pawk, aged 2
- Pa Lu and her daughter Ee Pee, aged 8
- Ai Parng, 22, son of Loong Kham and Pa Non
- Pa Long, 35, wife of Loong Ta, native of Sanin, Loi Lem toenship
- Ai Work, 18, son of Loong Orng and Pa Ae : they burned his groin, plucked the
hair and   forced him to eat it.

Zao Sarng Mon, former colonel of the MTA who still holds some civilian power,
heard about this, and went to pledge their innocence, after which they were
released. Twelve people, including children, had been held without food or water
from June 29 to July 06. Loong Soi was released at Murng He on July 10.

These atrocities were committed by SLORC no. 542 Battalion, Company 4, led by
Company Commander Myint Kyaw. It was said that Narng Poo had bribed them with 1
baht weight of gold and 5,000 Baht to persuade them to investigate of her gold.

SHAN HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION
August 01, 1996
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