[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index ][Thread Index ]

NEWS - RAPE AND KILLING OF RELOCATE



Subject: NEWS - RAPE AND KILLING OF RELOCATED COUPLE IN KUN-HING

RAPE AND KILLING OF RELOCATED COUPLE IN KUN-HING

 In mid September 1999, SPDC troops from IB246 beat a man to death and
raped
his wife before killing her in Kun-Hing township.

 On 16.9.99, about 70 SPDC troops from IB246 led by Capt Kyaw Aye
patrolled
the area of forced relocation in Kaeng Kham tract, Kun-Hing township,
and arrested 2 villagers, husband and wife, who were tending their rice
field on the
eastern side of Nam Paang river, about 4 miles from the town.

 Kaw-Ling, aged 45 and his wife, Naang Mon, aged 30, were originally
from
Kaeng Lom village in Kaeng Kham tract that had been forced to move to
the town 2-3 years ago. They were arrested by the troops while checking
the irrigation water of their rice field. 

 The troops separated them and interrogated them about the movement of
the
Shan soldiers, and kicked and beat them. But the villagers said they had
not seen
any Shan soldiers and did not know anything about them. 

 After a while, Capt Kyaw Aye said he would take the wife along as a
guide until they reached a cross road and told the husband to stay
behind and wait. However, when the front point of the troops had gone
some distance, the troops
who took up the rear beat the husband to death with sticks at the edge
of the rice field. 

 The wife was forced to go with the troops for 4 days and 3 nights
during which
she was raped by the Captain whenever he liked. On the last day when the
troops
were about to return to their base, Kyaw Aye called up all his officers
one by one and ordered them to rape her one after another. Eventually,
she was given to a Private who, after raping her, stabbed her to death
with his bayonet.