NEWS - Burma Army Killed 11 hiding

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Subject: NEWS - Burma Army Killed 11 hiding Karen villagers

Posted on October 25, 1999 at 01:37:58:

INFORMATION RELEASE
KNU Mergui-Tavoy Information Department
25.10.99

Burma Army Killed 11 hiding Karen villagers
KNU Mergui-Tavoy Information Department
25.10.99

A troop from Burma Army's Infantry Battalion 101 led by lieutenant Aung
Kyaw Than has killed 11 Karen
villagers who have hinging in the jungle on September 27, 1999 in Ta
Nyat Po Kee, in Eastern Mergui
Township, Mergui district, Tenasserim Division, southern Burma. 

On 27 September, a troops of Burma Army's Infantry Battalion 101 led by
lieutenant Aung Kyaw Than has
arrived to a tip of a stream called Ta Nyat Po Kee in the east of Mergui
town where villagers hved fled and
hiding from Burma Army forced relocation since 1997. That troop has shot
dead on sight and captured and
shot dead afterwards 11 Karen villagers.

The victims were,

(1) Saw Tu Lu, 17 yr, son of Saw Htee from Ta Hop Kee village
(2) Saw Lai, 15 yr., son of Saw Htee from Ta Hpo Kee village
(3) Saw Ye M'cho, son of Saw Htee form Ta Hpo Kee village
(4) Naw Eh Hso, 1 yr., daughter of Saw Ye M'cho from Ta Hpo Kee village
(5) Saw Maung Than, 28 yr., son of Saw Ma To from Nga Ya Aye village
(6) Naw Mu Ko, 2 yr., daughter of Saw Maung Than, from Nga Ya Aye
villaege 
(7) Saw Hse, 52 yr., Son of Saw Ler from Ta Hop Kee village
(8) Naw Mwai, 50 yr., daughter of Saw Dah La from Nga Ya Aye village
(9) Naw Ku La, 18 yr., daughter of Saw Kle form Ta Hpo Kee village
(10) Saw Ta Hse Yer, 5 yr., son of Saw Ba Na from Nga Ya Aye village
(11) Naw Mai Doh form Ta Hpo Kee village

Burma Army forcibly relocated those villagers to Da Lain Htat village
relocation site in 1997. In relocation site
villagers have to do what the military forced them to do, have to pay
money in various form demanded by the
troops, several kinds of extortion money, they did not want to live at
the relocation site. In the summer of
1998, some villagers secretly shifted back to their own village
gradually. 

Villagers who found after relocated treated as the enemy, shot on sight,
burned down everything has found,
especially paddy fields and rice that could support the villagers. This
form of action is knows as Burma Army
Scorched-earth tactics that target the population to eliminate the
resistance group. Villagers who has found
outside relocation sites suspected of insurgency and treated as the
enemy.

Burma Army is the arm force of Burma or Myanmar who forced ruled the
country since 1962 to now and
committed massive human rights abuses against the minorities and its
civilians and the suppression of
democracy movement in the country.