Description:
This report contains the full transcript of an interview conducted during June 2012 in Bu Tho Township, Papun District by a community member trained by KHRG to monitor human rights conditions. The community member interviewed Saw E---, a 36 year old married father of six, security leader from T--- IDP camp, Bu Tho Township, Papun District who described the incident regarding a shooting of a villager by Tatmadaw soldiers from IB [Infantry Battalion] #19. This incident is also described in one as of yet unpublished KHRG report and in Papun Interview: Saw K---, June 2012, published on July 20th 2012. Saw E--- describes further information on the events after surrounding the killing, from his perspective of someone who had gone to clear the villager?s body from the scene. He mentions what the impact has been to villagers? opinion on the prevailing ceasefire and the dire situation regarding villagers? ability to find food to eat and sell, given the dangerous circumstances in which they live. Also mentioned is the situation for Saw N---?s wife and children, he explains how, after the death of her husband, mental health problems which she once suffered from have returned, making her and her children?s lives very difficult.
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of Publication:
2012-09-05
Date of entry:
2012-11-05
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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Format:
pdf
Size:
291.55 KB
