Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians
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"SUMMARY:
This briefing covers the situation of human rights, which were
documented by the Chin Human Rights Organization in
northwestern Burma/Myanmar, primarily in Chin State,
Sagaing and Magwe Regions, between August and September
2021. Under the reign of terror imposed by the junta, hundreds
have been arrested, dozens of people killed, injured and
thousands exiled in a matter of months.
Evidence contained in this briefing demonstrates that there is a
clear pattern of serious violations of international human rights
and humanitarian laws, which are being committed by the
Burmese/Myanmar military junta State Administration Council
(SAC) against civilian populations with complete impunity..... This document details human rights violations committed by SAC actors
during August and September, 2021. Attacks on the civilian population and
civilian infrastructure initiated by the State Administration Council (SAC) junta
have become increasingly relentless in western Burma/Myanmar since
August 2021. Junta soldiers operating in Chin State and parts of Sagaing and
Magwe Regions, under the Northwestern Regional Military Command based
in Monywa, have conducted a campaign of unlawful killings, arbitrary arrest
and detention, torture and deliberate targeting of civilian and religious
infrastructure.
During August and September, the numbers of attacks on civilian and
religious infrastructure in western Myanmar where Tatmadaw forces have
escalated military activities against civil militias from the Chinland Defense
Force (CDF) in Chin State and the various Peoples Defense Force (PDFs)
operating in Sagaing and Magwe Regions has increased. These conflicts have
led to radical violations of international human rights and humanitarian law,
resulting in the massacres of civilians and causing civilian casualties, damage
and destruction to private and public property.
These ongoing violations constitute part of what the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet described as the “human rights
catastrophe” in her report to the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva
on Thursday, September 23.1 The violations documented by CHRO and other
groups have clear patterns in which perpetrators’ actions are demonstratively
deliberate and intended to cause harms to civilians. The destruction of lives,
livelihood and properties are directly linked to the military scorched earth
counter-insurgency policy.
The notorious “four-cuts” doctrine, which has been employed in active war
zones in ethnic areas for decades, is now being applied in the junta’s military
campaigns in urban areas in the fight against local militia groups such as CDF
and PDFs in western Myanmar/Burma. In implementing the four-cuts
doctrine designed to cut off food, funding, intelligence and
recruits to the
resistance groups, civilians are deliberately exposed to extreme violence and
livelihood destruction. The deliberate and indiscriminate nature in which the
policy is being applied in the current conflict circumstance has led to
unnecessary deaths, destruction of livelihoods and properties of civilians..."
Source/publisher:
Chin Human Rights Organization
Date of entry/update:
2021-10-22
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2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Human Rights Defenders, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, Chin (Zo)- economic, social, cultural, political
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The Myanmar Humanitarian Fund enables national and international humanitarian organisations to provide life-saving assistance to vulnerable and displaced people
Description:
"(အောက်တွင် မြန်မာဘာသာဖြင့် ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။)
The Myanmar Humanitarian Fund (MHF), a country-based pooled fund managed by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has allocated US$12.4million in 2021 to strengthen humanitarian response efforts to growing needs across Myanmar. This funding is enabling national and international humanitarian organisations to provide life-saving assistance and protection services to vulnerable and displaced people in Chin, Kachin, Magway, Rakhine and Shan states as well as in south-eastern parts of Myanmar, where there has been an increase in humanitarian needs due to conflict since 1 February. As part of the $12.4 million, the MHF has provided $330,000 to national humanitarian partners to top-up their ongoing projects to address the emerging humanitarian needs following escalation of hostilities in Chin, Kachin, Rakhine and Kayin states.
Since 2020, the MHF has allocated a total of $28.5 million to 32 partners, most of whom are national and local humanitarian organisations. These 56 life-saving humanitarian and COVID-19 related projects are contributing to changing the lives of almost 1.2 million people, of whom more than half (56 per cent) are women and girls, almost half (44 per cent) are children and 11 per cent are people with disabilities.
Bringing services closer to the people
“I am overjoyed to see my daughter do remedial exercises without the need to travel far,” said Khadija, a mother of a five-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, from Dar Paing Village, northwest of the capital Sittwe, in Rakhine State. Khadija is among the 345,000 people, who benefited from improved access to primary health care and nutrition services between May and August 2021. The projects have been implemented by national and international humanitarian partners and with the financial support of the MHF. “I am really thankful for the help to run an outpatient therapeutic centre, that is indispensable for families like us,” Khadija said.
Just like other displaced families living in camps or camp-like situations in Rakhine State, Khadija cannot afford to access health services by herself at the medical facility far away from where she lives. Displaced people in Rakhine and in other conflict-affected parts of the country continue to experience significant challenges in accessing basic services, including healthcare, education and livelihoods opportunities. This is where national and international humanitarian organisations are coming in to help by bringing these services closer to affected people with the support of the MHF.
Empowering national humanitarian partners
Wherever possible, the MHF strives to ensure that its funding support goes to national partners, who remain the backbone of humanitarian operations in Myanmar. At the moment, the MHF is directly supporting seven national humanitarian organisations who are delivering lifesaving assistance in Chin, Kachin, Magway, Rakhine and Shan states, as well as in south-eastern parts of the country. There are also 27 humanitarian projects by international organisations funded by MHF that are being implemented in partnership with 40 national organisations. In addition to funding support, the MHF also strives to build the capacity of national organisations in mobilising complimentary resources, including from other funding sources.
Dire humanitarian crisis
The MHF funding is critical in the current context, where around 3 million people need humanitarian assistance and protection services across various parts of Myanmar. This includes about 1 million people living in conflict-affected areas identified at the start of 2021 in the Humanitarian Response Plan. An additional 2 million people have been identified to receive humanitarian assistance and protection services as part of the Interim Emergency Response Plan. The Plan mainly focuses on people in urban and peri-urban areas in Yangon and Mandalay, as well as those displaced or otherwise affected in Chin and Kayin states since 1 February.
The Myanmar Humanitarian Fund
The MHF - one of 19 county-based pooled funds that OCHA manages across the world - brings together the contributions from donors into a single, unearmarked humanitarian fund. Since 2020, the MHF has received US$32.3 million in contributions from a total of 12 donors. The allocations by MHF aim to support projects in line with the strategic objectives of the Humanitarian Response Plan and Interim Emergency Response Plan. The MHF remains flexible in its approach, and together with its Advisory Board, strategises its contributions based on the context and adapts its approach to the changing realities on the ground. For example, in 2020, the MHF made a reserve allocation in the amount of $4 million to boost humanitarian efforts, aiming to ensure a coordinated response to COVID-19 and related support for displaced people and other vulnerable people in conflict-affected areas.
Myanmar Humanitarian Fund သည် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာအကူအညီနှင့် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ရောဂါ တုံ့ပြန်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများကို အရှိန်အဟုန်မြှင့်လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်စေရန် ဒေသခံမိတ်ဖက်များကို ကူညီပေးလျက်ရှိသည်။
OCHA ကစီမံခန့်ခွဲနေသည့် နိုင်ငံတွင်းစုပေါင်းရံပုံငွေယန္တရားတခုဖြစ်သော Myanmar Humanitarian Fund (MHF) သည် ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ်အတွင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းမှာ တိုးပွားလာသော လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာအကူအညီများကို ထိထိရောက်ရောက်တုံ့ပြန်ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်စေရန် အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၁၂ .၄သန်းကို ချမှတ်ပေးခဲ့ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါရံပုံငွေသည် ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှာ စ၍ ချင်း၊ ကချင်၊ ရခိုင်၊ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်နှင့် မကွေးတိုင်းများသာမက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအရှေ့တောင်ပိုင်း ဒေသများတွင်ပါ အရေးကြီးအကူအညီနှင့် အကာအကွယ်ပေးရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေ လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်စေရန် ပြည်တွင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများကို ကူညီပေးနိုင်ခဲ့သည်။ အဆိုပါရံပုံငွေ၏ တစိတ်တပိုင်းအဖြစ် ချင်း၊ ကချင်၊ ရခိုင်နှင့် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း ဖြစ်ပွားနေသော တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် လိုအပ်လာသည့် အကူအညီများကို ဆက်လက် ဖြည့်ဆည်းနိုင်ရန် နိုင်ငံတွင်းရှိ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုလုပ်ငန်းဆောင်ရွက်သူများ လက်ရှိလုပ်ဆောင်နေဆဲ လုပ်ငန်းများထဲသို့ အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၃၃၀,၀၀၀ ထပ်ဆောင်ပေးခဲ့ပါသည်။
MHF သည် အရေးကြီး လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုအကူအညီနှင့် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါနှီးနွှယ်လုပ်ငန်းများကို ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော မိတ်ဖက်၃၂ ဖွဲ့အား အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၂၈.၅ သန်းကို ၂၀၂၀ ခုနှစ်ကတည်းက ပေးအပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါအဖွဲ့များတွင် အများအားဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတွင်းနှင့် ဒေသခံမိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ ပါဝင်ပြီး လုပ်ငန်း ၅၆ ခုကို လုပ်ကိုင်လျက်ရှိကာ လူပေါင်း ၁.၂ သန်းအတွက် ကောင်းမွန်သော အပြောင်းအလဲများ ဆောင်ကျဉ်းနိုင်အောင် ကြိုးပမ်းလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ၎င်းလူဦးရေ ၁.၂ သန်း၏ ထက်ဝက်ကျော် (၅၆ ရာခိုင်နှုန်း)မှာ အမျိုးသမီးများ၊ ထက်ဝက်နီးပါး (၄၄ ရာခိုင်နှုန်း)မှာ ကလေးငယ်များနှင့် ၁၁ ရာခိုင်နှုန်းမှာ မသန်စွမ်းများဖြစ်ကြပါသည်။
လူထုအတွက် အကူအညီပေးနေသော ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများ
“အဝေးကြီးသွားစရာမလိုဘဲ ကိုယ်ကာယသန်စွမ်းရေးလေ့ကျင့်ခန်းတွေ လုပ်ခွင့်ရတဲ့သမီးလေးအတွက် ကျွန်မ ဝမ်းသာလိုက်တာ”
ခါဒီဂျာသည် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ အနောက်မြောက်ဘက်ရှိ ဒါးပိုင်ကျေးရွာမှ အာရုံကြောနှင့်ကြွက်သားညီညွတ်စွာလှုပ်ရှားနိုင်မှုမရှိသည့် cerebral palsy ရောဂါခံစားနေရသူ ငါးနှစ်သမီးကလေး၏ မိခင်ဖြစ်သည်။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် မေလမှ ဩဂုတ်လအတွင်း ခါဒီဂျာအပါအဝင် လူဦးရေ ၃၄၅,၀၀၀ အတွက် အခြေခံကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုနှင့် အာဟာရပြည့်ဝရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုလုပ်ငန်းများကို တိုးချဲ့ပေးအပ်နိုင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါလုပ်ငန်းများကို MHF မှ ကူညီပေးသောရံပုံငွေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတွင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုလုပ်ငန်းဆောင်ရွက်သူမိတ်ဖက်များမှ ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ “ပြင်ပလူနာတွေအတွက် ကုထုံးစင်တာ ဖွင့်လှစ်ပေးခဲ့တဲ့အတွက် လှိုက်လှိုက်လှဲလှဲ ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါတယ်။ ဒီလိုစင်တာတွေက ကျွန်မတို့လို မိသားစုတွေအတွက် မရှိမဖြစ်ပါ“ ဟု ခါဒီဂျာက ဆိုပါသည်။
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းရှိ ယာယီစခန်း သို့မဟုတ် ယာယီစခန်းကဲ့သို့သော အခြေအနေမျိုးတွင် နေထိုင်နေကြရသူ အိုးအိမ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးလာခဲ့ရသူ အခြားမိသားစုများကဲ့သို့ပင် ခါဒီဂျာလည်း ၎င်းနေထိုင်ရာကျေးရွာပြင်ပရှိ ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုလုပ်ငန်းများကို လက်လှမ်းမီရန် ခက်ခဲလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်နှင့် အခြား ပဋိပက္ခဒဏ်ခံစားရသော နေရာများတွင်လည်း အခြေခံကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှု၊ ပညာရေးနှင့် အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းမှုလုပ်ငန်းများကို လက်လှမ်းမီရန် စိန်ခေါ်မှုများရှိနေဆဲဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထို့ကဲ့သို့ အကူအညီလိုအပ်နေသူများအတွက် နိုင်ငံတွင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာမှ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုလုပ်ငန်း ဆောင်ရွက်သူအဖွဲ့အစည်းများက အရေးကြီးအကူအညီများရရှိရန် MHF ၏ ရံပုံငွေဖြင့် ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးနေခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။
နိုင်ငံတွင်း လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆောင်ရွက်သူမိတ်ဖက်များကို စွမ်းဆောင်ရည်မြှင့်တင်ပေးခြင်း
MHF သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုလုပ်ငန်းများ၏ကျောရိုးထောက်တိုင်ဖြစ်သော နိုင်ငံတွင်းမိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများထံသို့ ရံပုံငွေအကူအညီများ ရောက်ရှိစေရန် အစဉ်အမြဲကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည်။ MHF သည် ချင်း၊ ကချင်၊ ရခိုင်၊ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်နှင့် မကွေးတိုင်းများသာမက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအရှေ့တောင်ပိုင်းဒေသများတွင်ပါ အရေးကြီး လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုအကူညီပေးရေးလုပ်ငန်း ဆောင်ရွက်နေသူ နိုင်ငံတွင်းအဖွဲ့အစည်း ၇ ခုသို့ အကူအညီများကို တိုက်ရိုက်ပေးအပ်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ရံပုံငွေထောက်ပံ့ရေးအပြင် အခြားရံပုံငွေရင်းမြစ်များအပါအဝင် ထပ်ဆောင်းရင်းမြစ်များ ပေးအပ်ရာတွင်လည်း နိုင်ငံတွင်းအဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၏ စွမ်းဆောင်ရည်မြှင့်တင်ရန် ကြိုးစားလျက်ရှိပါသည်။
ခက်ခဲလျက်ရှိသည့် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုအကျပ်အတည်း
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့အပြားရှိ လူဦးရေ ၃ သန်းမှာ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုအကူအညီနှင့် အကာအကွယ်ပေးရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများ လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိနေပြီး အကူအညီများပေးအပ်နိုင်ရန် လက်ရှိအခြေအနေတွင် MHF၏ ရံပုံငွေသည် ပဓာနကျလျက်ရှိသည်။ အဆိုပါလူဦးရေထဲတွင် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်အစတွင် Humanitarian Response Planအရ ပေးအပ်ရန်သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့သည့် ပဋိပက္ခဒဏ်ခံစားရသူ ၁ သန်းပါဝင်ပါသည်။ ထို့ပြင် ထပ်မံ၍ Interim Emergency Response Plan အရ လူဦးရေ ၂ သန်းကို လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုအကူအညီနှင့် အကာအကွယ်ပေးရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုများပေးအပ်ရန် သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၎င်းအစီအစဉ်သည် ရန်ကုန်နှင့် မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီးအတွင်းရှိ ဆင်ခြေဖုန်းနေရာများတွင် နေထိုင်ရသူများအပြင် ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့ကတည်းက ချင်းနှင့် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်ရှိ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာရသူများ၊ ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသူများကို ဦးစားပေးကူညီပေးရန်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
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MHFသည် တကမ္ဘာလုံးတွင် OCHA က စီမံခန့်ခွဲနေသော နိုင်ငံတွင်းစုပေါင်းရံပုံငွေ ၁၉ ခုထဲမှတခုဖြစ်သည်။ အဆိုပါရံပုံငွေသည် အလှူရှင်များဆီက ရရှိသော ထည့်ဝင်ငွေများကို တစုတစည်းထဲထားရှိသည့် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုလုပ်ငန်းဆိုင်ရာ ရံပုံငွေဖြစ်သည်။ ၂၀၂၀ ခုနှစ်တွင် အလှူရှင် ၁၂ ဖွဲ့ထံမှ ထည့်ဝင်ငွေ အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၃၂.၃ သန်းရရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။ MHFမှ ချမှတ်ပေးမှုများသည် Humanitarian Response Plan၊ Interim Emergency Response Plan များ၏ ဗျူဟာကျရည်မှန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ လုပ်ငန်းများကို ထောက်ပံ့ပေးရန်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ MHF၏ ချဉ်းကပ်မှုမှာ ပြောင်းလွယ်၊ ပြင်လွယ်သောသဘောရှိသည်။ ထို့ပြင် MHFသည် အကြံပေးဘုတ်အဖွဲ့နှင့်အတူ နေရာဒေသအပေါ်မူတည်၍ ထည့်ဝင်မှုများကို ဗျူဟာကျစီမံလျက်ရှိကာ ပြောင်းလဲနေသောအခြေအနေအပေါ်မူတည်၍ ချဉ်းကပ်မှုပုံစံကို ပြောင်းလဲပေးပါသည်။
ဥပမာ ၂၀၂၀ခုနှစ်တွင် MHFသည် ပဋိပက္ခဒဏ်ခံစားရသော နေရာများရှိ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာလာရသူများနှင့် အခြားထိခိုက်လွယ်မိသားစုများအတွက် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုအကူအညီများ တိုးမြှင့်ပေးနိုင်ရန် အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၄ သန်းကို အရန်ရံပုံငွေအဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထိုသို့ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ တုံ့ပြန်မှုနှင့် ဆက်စပ်အကူအညီများကို ညှိနှိုင်းလုပ်ဆောင်သည့် တုံပြန်မှုအဖြစ်ရည်ရွယ်ကာ ပေးအပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။..."
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Ethnic armed groups in Shan State have long used intimidation to recruit fighters, but the brutal tactics of the Shan State Progress Party are terrorizing villagers and prompting some to flee their homes.
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"On the morning of June 20, Daw Shristi Devi, 55, walked more than 20 kilometers from her village to a Shan State Progress Party camp near Lashio in northern Shan State.
The ethnic armed group had summoned the single mother of five to apologize on behalf of her eldest son for his refusal to enlist in the SSPP’s armed wing, the Shan State Army-North.
Moments after arriving at the SSPP camp, Shristi Devi, along with 23 villagers who had also been summoned for the same reason, were forced into a vehicle by five armed fighters and driven away. She was separated from her family for more than six weeks.
“We didn’t know where they were taking us. They could have done anything to us. We thought they would kill us,” recalled Shristi Devi, who asked that her real name and village not be published for fear of reprisal.
Although the military coup on February 1 brought violence and fear into households throughout the country, for many in Shan State conflict has been at their doorsteps for decades.
The state is home to some of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed groups, and these ethnic armies have long been at war with each other and with the Tatmadaw. However, as power struggles and territorial disputes persist, the SSPP and its armed wing, one of the biggest ethnic armed groups in northern Shan, has acquired a reputation as the more violent and aggressive of the groups, especially in recruitment campaigns.
‘We gave the money – that’s why we are still alive today’
The June 20 incident is reflective of the SSPP’s increasingly brutal recruitment tactics.
Taken against their will with no warning or explanation, Shristi Devi and the other villagers were moved three times after being abducted. At the final camp, where they were held for a month, they lived in tents with little food and not enough clothing. Shristi Devi remembers seeing over 200 people who had been abducted from other villages.
“It was intolerably cold. We didn’t know we could end up here like this so we didn’t bring any warm change of clothes or blankets. We had to wash the clothes again and again and re-wear them. And they didn’t give us anything to eat except rice, oil, and salt,” said Shristi Devi. “We spent most nights sleeping on the floor. It was such a nightmare.”
A few days after arriving at the final camp in Keng Tung, the men were taken to SSPP headquarters in Wan Hai, over 380km away, to begin formal training. The eight women remained at the camp.
Shristi Devi was told that she would only be released after her son joined the SSPP or a fee of K10 million was paid (about US$5,000 at current exchange rates). Fearing for her safety, her community collected the ransom and on August 2 she was released, along with another woman from her village. However, she was told that paying the ransom would only protect her for one year.
“I am constantly worried because they only gave us a one-year contract to sign, which means that they will or can come back next year again and the same thing would happen again,” said Shristi Devi, her voice shaking.
“We gave the money – that’s why we are still alive today. But this is [only] one year’s insurance. We don’t know what will happen to us in the next few years.”
The SSPP’s conscription efforts track eligible recruits using what’s known as “the list”. In villages across northern Shan, families with members aged between 18 and 40, men and women, are entered on “the list”, usually under the father’s name. An annual draw is held by respective village tract administrators and SSPP branch leaders to decide who must join. If selected, the family must offer at least one person to begin immediate military training regardless of whether the family is from a village in SSPP territory.
Sai Muang, editor-in-chief of the Shan Herald Agency for News, has monitored conscription and forced recruitment by the SSPP since 2006. He says the June 20 incident is one of the most extreme examples of intimidation by the armed group, but it is not an isolated case. He says the SSPP’s conscription programme has expanded over the past year, and now covers more than 50 villages. The increase has occurred amid a rise in fighting between the SSPP and the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), and its armed wing is the Shan State Army-South.
“They [SSPP] have been recruiting in so many villages. They are now not just looking at the city or the number of people they can recruit. They are focusing on anyone above 18 and taking them,” said Muang.
Sai Wi Zay Ya, 52, a community leader from the same village as Shristi Devi, has spoken to families throughout northern Shan who have been targeted in the forced recruitment campaigns. He believes that the SSPP’s tactics have become more drastic in recent months.
In the past, if a recruit failed to comply with his or her conscription, their family could negotiate with the village leader to pay a fine. This is no longer sufficient.
“Before, it used to be directly dealt with by the village heads, without involving the villagers. Now, they don’t accept negotiating with the village head and demand to talk to the parents directly. That’s why now the head of the village has been conditioned to send the parents to their camp to deal with whatever they [SSPP] want,” said Wi Zay Ya, who asked that his real name and location not be used for fear of reprisal.
“They have found that the tactic of taking parents away is an effective and easy way to threaten the sons to join the groups. So, they started implementing such tactics in other areas gradually.”
These new tactics spread to Shristi Devi and Wi Zay Ya’s village when the SSPP pushed the RCSS out of the region in April and took over administrative control. A representative from each family is required to visit one of the SSPP camps in person; families that refuse to go through this process risk having SSPP soldiers raid their homes and detain anyone they find.
Shristi Devi’s eldest son was first recruited by the SSPP in one of its annual draws in 2015. For five years, her family paid an annual K4 million fine to the party in exchange for his freedom. Until this year, it was enough to ward off the party’s threats, but due to the new policy she feared for her family’s safety and felt she had no choice but to make the trip to talk directly to the party.
In other parts of Shan, the policies have been in effect for several years. Daw Nang Lee, 30, who lives in a village in northern Shan about 15km south of Shristi Devi’s community, made a similar trip to an SSPP camp in 2019.
Her younger brother was first recruited by the SSPP in 2012 and joined up, but absconded after seven years. Nang Lee was summoned to a meeting with the SSPP at which she tried to issue a formal apology on behalf of her brother.
“This is the only way to deal with them if you want to be excused from not getting other severe punishments like getting arrested or beaten,” said Nang Lee, who asked that her real name and home village not be used because the SSPP has in the past threatened and attacked residents of her village who have spoken out about the forced conscription.
Although Nang Lee did not face retaliation like Shristi Devi, her apology was rejected and her brother was again included on “the list”. He has remained in hiding since he ran away.
Decades of conflict in Shan State
For many families, the prospect of a loved one fighting with an ethnic armed group hangs over them like a death sentence. Reports of young people joining ethnic armed groups and never being heard from again are common.
“I feel that giving money is better than giving our sons and our lives because we don’t know what they will make our sons do once they join the group. We don’t know if they will ever come back or stay alive,” said Shristi Devi.
“It is better we go [to apologise] because if we don’t, the SSPP would come and raid our house and God knows what else they are capable of doing. I don’t want them to even see my sons at all.”
The fear of ethnic armed groups such as the SSPP has developed over decades of fighting, both against the Tatmadaw and between themselves.
The SSPP is allied with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), which represents the Ta’ang minority. Separately and together, the two northern Shan groups have clashed with the RCSS, based in the south of the state, since the TNLA was formed in 2009.
However, while the TNLA focuses its recruitment almost exclusively on Ta’ang, the predominantly Shan SSPP is known to target all ethnicities, including those living in territory outside its control. SSPP spokesperson and secretary, Colonel Sai Su said that there is “no discrimination against gender or religions” in the party’s recruitment efforts.
The RCSS, while also violent, has developed a reputation as being a more protective force that is less likely to use fear-mongering tactics and extreme intimidation against civilians, especially in northern Shan.
Wi Zay Ya said he has witnessed the difference between the two groups firsthand. His village was under RCSS control until April when the SSPP pushed them out. He says the contrast between the two groups is significant.
“RCSS didn’t torture or use violence towards us. They took things from us, but protected us in return. But [SSPP] are very violent and ask the villagers to do things for them forcefully and ask them to give [money]. They want us to buy them beer, and they torture the villagers so inhumanely,” said Wi Zay Ya.
Muang has heard similar stories, but suggests that a preference for the RCSS might be misguided.
“RCSS has that strong mindset or value that is shared by many in Shan State: nationalism. Shan people love RCSS for that reason. It becomes easy for them to give anything to RCSS and hard for them to see them for what they really are,” said Muang.
“They [Shan people] paint SSPP as the “bad guy” because SSPP is more cunning, and they collaborate and work with different armed groups, and are seen as traitors in the community.”
Despite evidence of its crackdowns and harsh recruitment campaigns, the SSPP denies most allegations of violence. Sai Su said the group instills a sense of duty in its recruits and its leadership retains a tight grip on its fighters at all levels.
“There might be a possibility that lower-ranking soldiers are implementing this without us knowing but if this activity is truly happening on the ground, it is not ordered by us. But if we know anything about it, we would take serious action towards such violent acts,” said Sai Su.
However, the SSPP does admit to punishing those who evade recruitment, conceding that a small number of those who refuse to join are arrested and held for 30 days under what it calls “house arrest” as part of a re-education programme. Sai Su says only about 30 people are held under the programme every year.
Yet, stories of mass kidnappings and intimidation campaigns have spread across Shan, terrifying families who worry that they could be the next target. Rather than waiting for their village to be raided, many have made the difficult decision to flee their homes preemptively, relocating to one of the many displacement camps scattered throughout the state where they feel safe.
Figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) show that since the beginning of 2021, 26,681 persons have been displaced in Shan, with more than 22,000 in the north where the SSPP has its stronghold, as of September 15.
This is a significant increase from 2020, when the OCHA recorded 8,600 internally displaced persons in northern Shan state over the course of the year. While active conflict continues to be a primary driver of displacement across the entire state, recently, fear of conscription has also become a factor, a senior international aid worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Frontier.
“I don’t remember a single case last year of people leaving their house because of fear of being recruited, but vis-a-vis this year it is different,” said the aid worker.
“There are now reports of people being recruited forcibly, but even more reports of others fleeing their areas because of forced recruitment – because of reports they’ve heard and the fear of being taken in by the ethnic armed organisations.”
Allegra Mendelson is a freelance journalist based in Phnom Penh. Nandar is a feminist advocate and storyteller, originally from Shan State..."
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"Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in Sagaing and Magwe regions due to recent junta raids, according to local sources.
Junta forces have been raiding one village after another in Tabayin, Minkin, Myaung, Yinmarbin and Kani townships in Sagaing and Yesagyo and other townships in Magwe, attacking the bases of local resistance fighters, detaining civilians and looting.
Junta troops used local villagers as human shields while traveling from one village to another during raids in Myaung, a member of the township People’s Defense Force (PDF) told The Irrawaddy on condition of anonymity.
“They have been on the rampage lately in Myaung. They came here because military informants were killed and to wipe out the Myaung PDF. They use around 10 villagers as human shields when they go from one village to the next. They release the villagers after they reach their destination,” he said.
Human Rights Affairs Minister U Aung Myo Min of the parallel National Unity Government called the regime’s use of civilians as human shields the worst form of human rights violations and a war crime.
By THE IRRAWADDY 24 August 2021
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in Sagaing and Magwe regions due to recent junta raids, according to local sources.
Junta forces have been raiding one village after another in Tabayin, Minkin, Myaung, Yinmarbin and Kani townships in Sagaing and Yesagyo and other townships in Magwe, attacking the bases of local resistance fighters, detaining civilians and looting.
Junta troops used local villagers as human shields while traveling from one village to another during raids in Myaung, a member of the township People’s Defense Force (PDF) told The Irrawaddy on condition of anonymity.
“They have been on the rampage lately in Myaung. They came here because military informants were killed and to wipe out the Myaung PDF. They use around 10 villagers as human shields when they go from one village to the next. They release the villagers after they reach their destination,” he said.
Human Rights Affairs Minister U Aung Myo Min of the parallel National Unity Government called the regime’s use of civilians as human shields the worst form of human rights violations and a war crime.
“They arrest and torture people in villages, and also force them to carry things for the army. And they also use civilians as shields or deterrents against enemy attacks. These are more than human rights violations; they are blatant war crimes,” said U Aung Myo Min.
The Myanmar military’s code of ethics also bars military personnel from using civilians in fighting or putting their lives at risk.
By THE IRRAWADDY 24 August 2021
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in Sagaing and Magwe regions due to recent junta raids, according to local sources.
Junta forces have been raiding one village after another in Tabayin, Minkin, Myaung, Yinmarbin and Kani townships in Sagaing and Yesagyo and other townships in Magwe, attacking the bases of local resistance fighters, detaining civilians and looting.
Junta troops used local villagers as human shields while traveling from one village to another during raids in Myaung, a member of the township People’s Defense Force (PDF) told The Irrawaddy on condition of anonymity.
“They have been on the rampage lately in Myaung. They came here because military informants were killed and to wipe out the Myaung PDF. They use around 10 villagers as human shields when they go from one village to the next. They release the villagers after they reach their destination,” he said.
Human Rights Affairs Minister U Aung Myo Min of the parallel National Unity Government called the regime’s use of civilians as human shields the worst form of human rights violations and a war crime.
“They arrest and torture people in villages, and also force them to carry things for the army. And they also use civilians as shields or deterrents against enemy attacks. These are more than human rights violations; they are blatant war crimes,” said U Aung Myo Min.
The Myanmar military’s code of ethics also bars military personnel from using civilians in fighting or putting their lives at risk.
Junta troops raided villages in Tabayin as of Sunday and at least seven youths were detained, according to locals.
“They stayed overnight at Oh Tein Twin Village, and took food, drinks and rice. They took liquor from the pub and killed chickens for meat. They arrested people and looted. And they destroyed the things they don’t need so that other people can’t use them,” said a Tabayin villager.
One young person was shot dead as junta troops opened fire while arresting five youths in the village of Hinthar in Yesagyo Township of Magwe Region, a township PDF member told The Irrawaddy.
“As many junta troops have come recently, it appears that they are acting according to a plan to get rid of the PDF. Our weapons are no match for theirs, though there are many resistance fighters available to fight them. As the NUG has not declared ‘D-Day’, and we are not yet in a position to fight them in terms of weaponry, we have had to withdraw,” he said.
A PDF base in Shwe Hlan Village was raided on Aug. 19 in Yesagyo Township, and weapons were seized. More weapons were seized from the village during the junta raid on Saturday.
Junta forces also attacked a PDF base in Myaung Township, forcing resistance fighters to withdraw..."
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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
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2021-08-24
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"As of 23 August, (1013) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (4) fallen heroes today. These (4) fallen heroes from Taunggyi Township in Shan State, Yesagyo Township in Magway Region and Khin-u Township in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 23, a total of (5821) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Soe Lwin Lwin was a primary school teacher at a Thein Kone Village Basic Education Middle School in Taunggyi Township, Shan State, arbitrarily arrested by the terrorist junta, and had been involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). Soe Lwin Lwin contracted COVID-19 while detained in Taung Lay Lone (Nyaung Shwe) Prison and died on August 22.
On the evening of August 22, the terrorist junta raided and opened fire in Hinthar Village in Yesagyo Township, Magway Region, after a junta-appointed village administrator informed on them. Five villagers were shot at in an attempt to make arrests. Chit Ye Yint, one of five, was shot dead in the forehead.
On August 21 around 8 pm, Maung Aye and a nurse, Nweat Nweat Aye, from Kan Thit Village in Khin-u Township, Sagaing Region, were shot to death by terrorist junta’s soldiers who were patrolling in the area. The husband and wife were returning home by motorbike from selling agricultural products. It is reported that Maung Aye was shot in the head and Nweat Nweat was shot in the stomach.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-08-23
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"As of 21 August, (1009) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen heroes today. (1) from Gantgaw Township in Magway Region died today and (1) from Shwepyithar Township in Yangon Region was killed on August 19 and was documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 21, a total of (5787) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On the evening of August 18, terrorist junta soldiers raided Hnan Khar Village in Gantgaw Township, Magway Region. 72 years old Kan Htaunt who was not able to run away from the village because of his age was punched and kicked continuously by entering junta troops. Kan Htaunt died on the morning of August 21 from this torturous assault.
On the evening of August 19, a large number of security forces raided a hostel in Shwepyithar Township, Yangon Region, having accused it of housing the PDF. A young man named Lin Lin Tun a.k.a Bo Phyu was shot in the stomach and died on the spot while he was attempting to jump out of the window to escape. In addition to this, Hnin Ei Khaing, a young woman, was arrested.
Tun Win, living in Shan State’s Muse Town, who contracted COVID-19, was arrested at his home by terrorist junta troops on August 20 as they did not find his son they were looking for.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected] ..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-08-21
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"In 200 days, the terrorist-like so-called ‘State Administrative Council’ has murdered (1007) civilians from the pro-democracy movement against the illegitimate coup attempt. Our organization, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has been monitoring human rights violations since long before the military coup and began documenting recent fatalities with the fatal shooting of Mya Thwate Thwate Khaing on 9 February in Naypyidaw. Proportionately, an average of five innocent civilians is killed each day by junta.
“We’ve seen how the military junta followed a pattern with its escalation of deadly and arbitrary force” said AAPP, “At first they used rubber bullets and tear gas, when this did not produce the desired subordination to dictatorial rule, a campaign of terror began in March”. Cases of arson, looting, arbitrary assaults, torture, artillery, and massacres are no widespread across the country.
The paragraphs below detail categories of occupations, demographics, and events to illustrate the sweeping destruction this murderous military coup was wrought.
Professions
At the onset of the coup, teachers, doctors, have been some of those most systematically targeted for their involvement in anti-coup protests, the civil disobedience movement, and offering support in crackdowns. Since the coup, (6) medics, (7) engineers, (10) teachers and (71) students have been killed by the junta.
Deadliest Day
On 27 March, AAPP documented the deadliest day of the military’s brutal crackdown attempts. (164) courageous civilians lost their lives, across the country including in Insein and Dala Township, Yangon, in Meiktila and Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay, in Monwya and Shwebo, Sagaing, in Kawthaung, Tanintharyi Region. (2) 18-year-olds and (14) under-18’s were killed by the junta. Total (16) 18 and under killed on this day.
Regions
The inhumanity of this terrorist like military has forced people Burma across the country in daily life-threatening situations. Since the coup (241) people have been murdered in Yangon Region, (217) people murdered in Mandalay Region, and (204) in Sagaing Region.
Vulnerable Groups
International humanitarian law has requirements for the protection of children, found throughout the Fourth Geneva Convention and in its additional protocols. The Convention on the Rights of the Child also states that parties must take “all feasible measures to ensure protection and care of children who are affected by armed conflict”. Yet, since the coup in Burma, (20) 18-year-olds and (62) under-18’s were killed. Total (82) 18 and under have been murdered by the junta.
Since the coup at least (70) women people been murdered according to AAPP’s most recently published fatality list. International humanitarian law recognizes that males are afforded the same protection as women and vice versa, but specific vulnerabilities guarantee protection for females. This equally applies to persons not confirming to traditional gender roles, who are systemically exposed to egregious human rights violations. On 4 June Thaw Thaw, a transgender woman, was shot in the arm and rib by junta troops in in Kyaukpadaung Township, Mandalay, and died from lack of medical treatment.
Protests
People are being killed at peaceful protests, often spontaneous gatherings but always the movement has remained a leaderless organic rejection of an illegitimate coup attempt. (649) have been killed at pro-democracy demonstrations since 1 February. Some of the most violent and least indefensible, even for this murderous junta, have been the unprovoked shootings and raids in neighbourhood and homes. Even on streets in the middle of day, youths racing to get back home are murdered by junta terrorists in unmarked vehicles.
One of the most heinous atrocities was on 23 March when the junta troops raided a family home in Mandalay City. Khin Myo Chit a 6 year-year-old, was shot covering in her fathers’ arms.
When a teenager is shot in the back of the head, it signifies hostility and intent of the perpetrator. An incident which garnered international attention was the murder of Kyal Sin Lin also known as ‘Angel’, who on 3 March was gunned down running back from a barrier at a pro-democracy protest in Mandalay City. Since the coup (107) have been shot dead in the head.
Torture to Death
There are many other strategies a violent institution like this military will practice, and it does not stop at indiscriminate but intentional shootings. Torturing activists, striking workers, or every-day civilians has been a tactic of this junta. Since the coup (106) have been murdered this way.
Conclusion
The evidence is overwhelming, the intent has been to suppress dissent against dictatorship and for democracy by inflicting crimes against humanity on an entire country. The international response should have been swift and remains to be significant enough to end the impunity. International recognition of the political legitimacy to the National Unity Government sends a message that these crimes will not be tolerated and will begin the process of accountability..."
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2021-08-21
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"As of 19 August, (1007) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Myingyan Township in Mandalay Region died today and was documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 19, a total of (5747) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Thet Naing Oo from Kyauk Kan Village in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Townshipwho, who was arrested by the terrorist junta’s troops on the night of August 18, died on the morning of August 19. Thet Naing Oo was reportedly beaten and tortured the whole night. He was stopped and arrested because of his flashlight while he was returning home from the south of a school where the terrorist junta had set up camp.
On the afternoon of August 18, junta police and soldiers raided the homes of three NLD MPs of Tabayin Township in Sagaing Region and arrested some family members as hostages. In Sai Pyin Town, the home of Pyithuhluttaw MP Win Myint Aung was raided and his wife Khin Ohn Myint, the son, and younger brother San Lin were all arrested.
In the raid of Moe Min Win’s home, regional hluttaw MP for No (2) constituency, his older brother Hmet San and nephew were also arrested. In addition to this, the terrorist junta raided the home of Hnin Khaing Soe, regional hluttaw MP for No (1) constituency in Sai Pyin Town. The father of Hnin Khaing Soe was reportedly not arrested because he contracted COVID-19 and was having to breathe from oxygen supplies.
Political analyst Si Thu Aung Myint, who has been charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, was arrested on the night of August 15 whilst evading arrest in an apartment in Yangon Region’s Bahan Township. He is a regular columnist for Frontier Myanmar and VOA and wrote articles and satire criticising the coup council for which he was charged.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]..."
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2021-08-19
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"မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် နှစ်ပေါင်း (၇၀) ကျော်ကြာ ဖြစ်ပွားနေသော ပြည်တွင်းစစ်အတွင်း တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူ အများစု မှာ စစ်အုပ်စု၏ နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေးမူဝါဒအောက်တွင် မတရား ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခံရခြင်း၊ တရားမဲ့ သတ်ဖြတ် ခံရခြင်း၊ အဓမ္မပြုကျင့်ခံရခြင်း၊ မြို့ရွာများကို မီးရှို့ခြင်း၊ အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရခြင်း၊ အတင်းအကြပ် နေရာရွှေ့ပြောင်းခံရခြင်း စသည်များကို ခံစားနေရကြရသည်။ ထိုအခြေအနေများကို နိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းရှိ လူ့အခွင့် အရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် အရပ်ဘက် လူမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ အစဉ်တစိုက် ထောက်ပြခဲ့ပြီး စစ်အုပ်စုအားအရေး ယူရန် တိုက်တွန်းချက်များ အကြိမ်ကြိမ်ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ကုလသမဂ္ဂမှလည်း အချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေးအဖွဲ့ကို (၂၀၁၈) တွင် ဖွဲ့စည်းပြီး စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို စုံစမ်းမှတ်တမ်းတင်သည်အထိ ဆောင် ရွက်မှုများရှိနေသည်။ သို့သော် စစ်အုပ်စုသည် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို ရပ်တန့်သည်မရှိဘဲ စစ်ရာဇ ဝတ်မှုနှင့် လူသားဖြစ်တည်မှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်သည့်ရာဇဝတ်မှုကို ဆက်လက်ကျူးလွန်သည်အထိ ဆိုးဝါးရက်စက် လှသော ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို ကျူးလွန်လျက်ရှိသည်။
(၂၀၂၁) ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁) ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြည်သူ့ဆန္ဒဖြင့် ရွေးချယ်ထားသည့် အရပ်သားရွေးကောက်ခံ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များနှင့် နိုင်ငံ့ခေါင်းဆောင်များကို မတရားဖမ်းဆီးပြီး နိုင်ငံတော်အာဏာကို အကြမ်းဖက် လုယူ သွားသည့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်ကို တစိုက်မတ်မတ် တွန်းလှန်ခုခံလျက်ရှိသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့အပြား ဒေသအသီးသီး အနက် စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ယင်းမာပင်ခရိုင်အတွင်းရှိ ကနီမြို့နယ်သည် စစ်အာဏာရှင်ကို နည်းလမ်းပေါင်းစုံ အသုံးပြု၍ ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်နေသည့် ထင်ရှားသော အရပ်ဒေသတစ်ခု ဖြစ်သည်။
ထို့အတွက်ကြောင့်လည်း အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီက အညှိုးတကြီးဖြင့် နယ်မြေစိုးမိုးရေးအကြောင်းပြကာ ကနီ မြို့ပေါ်နှင့် အနီးအနားပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ကျေးရွာများတွင် ပစ်ခတ်ဖမ်းဆီးမှုများ၊ တောနင်းရှာဖွေမှုများ ပြုလုပ်လျက် ရှိနေသလို ကျေးရွာများအတွင်း စစ်အင်အားအလုံးအရင်းဖြင့် ဝင်ရောက်စီးနင်းမှုများကြောင့် ဒေသခံ ထောင် ပေါင်းများစွာမှာ နီးစပ်ရာ ကျေးရွာများ၊ တောအုပ်များအတွင်း ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရလျက်ရှိသည်။ ထို့အပြင် ကျေးရွာများအတွင်းဝင်ရောက်ကာ ကျွဲ၊ နွားများ အပါအဝင် ပစ္စည်းဥစ္စာများ လုယူခြင်း၊ သိမ်းပိုက်ခြင်းများကိုပါ ပြုလုပ်လာခဲ့သည်။
ကလေးမြို့ အခြေစိုက် တပ်ရင်း (၂၂၈) အပါအဝင် တပ်မ (၄၄) နှင့် (၉၉) လက်အောက်ခံတပ်ရင်းများမှ ဗျူဟာ သုံးခုခွဲ၍ အင်အားတစ်ထောင်ခန့်ဖြင့် ကနီမြို့နယ်အတွင်း ကျေးရွာတိုင်းနီးပါးသို့ ဝင်ရောက်စီးနင်းလျက်ရှိရာ ဒေသခံ အများအပြားမှာ အကြမ်းဖက်ဖမ်းဆီးခံရခြင်း၊ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခံရခြင်း၊ အသက်သေဆုံးသည်အထိ လူ မဆန်စွာ သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရခြင်းများကိုလည်း ရင်ဆိုင်ကြုံတွေ့နေရသည်။
ထို့အပြင် စစ်ဘေးရှောင် ပြည်သူများမှာ စားနပ်ရိက္ခာနှင့် ဆေးဝါးပြတ်လပ်မှုဒဏ်ကို ခံစားနေကြရပြီး မုံရွာနယ် ဘက်သို့ သွားရောက်ဝယ်ယူရာတွင်လည်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လက်ပါးစေများက ပမာဏများပြားသော ငွေကြေးများ ကောက်ခံခြင်းအပြင် စစ်ဖိနပ်ဖြင့်ကန်ခြင်း၊ သေနတ်ဒင်ဖြင့်ထုခြင်းစသည့် အနိုင်ကျင့်မှုများကို လည်း ပြုလုပ်လျက်ရှိနေကြောင်း သိရသည်။
ကနီမြို့နယ်ရှိ ကျေးရွာအချို့တွင်လည်း ဇူလိုင် (၉) ရက်နေ့မှစ၍ အူရီဒူးနှင့် တယ်လီနောအော်ပရေတာများ၏ အင်တာနက်နှင့်ဖုန်းလိုင်းများ ပြတ်တောက်ခဲ့ပြီး ဩဂုတ်လ (၂) ရက်နေ့တွင် MPT လိုင်းပါ ထပ်မံ ပြတ်တောက် ခဲ့ရာ လက်ရှိအချိန်တွင် စစ်တပ်ပိုင် Mytel အော်ပရေတာ၏ ဖုန်းနှင့်အင်တာနက်လိုင်းသာ ရွာအချို့တွင် အသုံးပြု ၍ရနေကြောင်း ဒေသခံများကဆိုသည်။ ဤလုပ်ရပ်မှာ စစ်အုပ်စုသည် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် ဖြတ် လေးဖြတ်ဗျူဟာကိုအသုံးပြု၍ တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းပင်ဖြစ်သည်။
ထိုကဲ့သို့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်၏ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိဖြင့် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် လူမဆန်စွာ ပြုလုပ်မှုများ ကြောင့် ဇူလိုင်လ တစ်လတည်းမှာပင် ကနီမြို့နယ်ရှိ ကျေးရွာများ၌ အရပ်သားများ၏ အလောင်းများ အစုလိုက် အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်စွန့်ပစ်ထားသည်ကို လေးကြိမ်တိုင်တိုင် တွေ့ရှိခဲ့ကြသည်။ သတ်ဖြတ်စွန့်ပစ်ထားသည့် ရုပ် အလောင်းစုစုပေါင်းမှာ အနည်းဆုံး (၄၃) ဦး ရှိနေသည်။
ပထမအကြိမ်ဖြစ်စဉ် (ရုပ်အလောင်း ၄ လောင်း)
စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ယင်းမာပင်ခရိုင် ကနီမြို့နယ်အတွင်းရှိ မုံအိုကျေးရွာနှင့် ရွာသာကျေးရွာအကြား ရှစ်ခိုး တက် တောပြင်၌ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁ ရက်နေ့ ညနေ ၄ နာရီနှင့် ၆ နာရီကြားအချိန်တွင် အမျိုးသား (၄) ဦးကို အကြမ်း ဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုမှ ဖမ်းဆီး၍ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ကာ ဦးခေါင်းများကို သေနတ်နှင့်တေ့ပစ်ပြီး အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့သည်။
ထိုရုပ်အလောင်း (၄) လောင်းကို ဇူလိုင်လ (၃) ရက်နေ့တွင် ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိခဲ့ရာ ရုပ်အလောင်းများမှာ ဦးခေါင်းများ မရှိတော့သကဲ့သို့ ပျက်စီးနေပြီး အနီးတဝိုက်တွင်လည်း ဆိုင်ကယ် (၂၅) စီးခန့်ကို မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးထားသည်ကို တွေ့ မြင်ခဲ့ရကြောင်း ဒေသခံများကဆိုသည်။ သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းခံရသည့် ရုပ်အလောင်း (၄) လောင်းမှာ စိန်ကုန်းရွာမှ (၁) ဦး၊ ဖန်ခါးကုန်းရွာမှ (၁) ဦး၊ ဆူးလေကုန်း ရွာမှာ (၁) ဦးနှင့် အင်ချောင်ရွာမှ (၁) ဦး တို့ဖြစ်ကြသည်။
ဒုတိယအကြိမ်ဖြစ်စဉ် (ရုပ်အလောင်း ၁၆ လောင်း)
ချင်းတွင်းမြစ် အရှေ့ဘက်ကမ်းရှိ ယင်းရွာ၊ ကုန်းသာရွာ၊ ကျောက်လှေကားရွာများသို့ ဇူလိုင် (၉) ရက် နှင့် (၁၀) ရက်နေ့များ၌ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်မှ အလုံးအရင်းဖြင့် ဝင်ရောက်လာသောကြောင့် ရွာလုံးကျွတ် ထွက်ပြေး တိမ်းရှောင်ကြရသည်။ ထိုထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေသူ ဒေသခံများအနက် (၂၆) ဦး ပျောက်ဆုံးနေသဖြင့် လိုက်လံ ရှာဖွေရာ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း၊ ကနီမြို့နယ်၊ ယင်းရွာ၏ အရှေ့ဘက် ခင်တန်းရှည် တောင်ကုန်းပေါ်မှ ချိုင့်ထဲတွင် တောထဲတွင် ဒဏ်ရာများဖြင့် ရုပ်ပျက်ဆင်းပျက်ဖြစ်နေသည့် အလောင်း (၁၅) လောင်းနှင့် နောက်တစ်ရွာတွင် အလောင်း (၁) လောင်းကို ထပ်မံ ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိခဲ့သည်။
အလောင်းများကို ဇူလိုင် (၁၁၊ ၁၂) ရက်နေ့များတွင် ယင်းရွာ၏ အရှေ့ဘက်တောင်ကုန်းပေါ်မှ ရှာတွေ့ခဲ့ ခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး ယင်းရွာမှ (၁၃) ဦး၊ ကုန်းသာရွာမှ (၁) ဦး၊ ပလူဇဝ ရွာမှ (၁) ဦးနှင့် ထောက်ကြံ့ကုန်းရွာမှ (၁) ဦး စုစုပေါင်း (၁၆) ဦး ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ယင်းရွာဒေသခံက ဆိုသည်။ သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရသူများအနက် အများစုမှာ အသက် (၃၀) နှင့် (၅၀) ကြားအရွယ် အမျိုးသားများဖြစ်ပြီး အသက် (၆၀) ကျော်အရွယ် (၁) ဦးလည်း ပါဝင်သည်။
ရုပ်အလောင်းအားလုံးတွင် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် နှိပ်စက်ညှဉ်းပန်းခံထားရသည့် လက္ခဏာများတွေ့ရပြီး အဆိုးရွား ဆုံးမှာ မျက်နှာနှင့် လည်ပင်းများကို လှီးဖြတ် နှိပ်စက်ညှဉ်းပန်းထားသည့် ဒဏ်ရာများတွေ့ရှိရခြင်းပင်ဖြစ်သည်။
တတိယအကြိမ်ဖြစ်စဉ် (ရုပ်အလောင်း ၁၂ လောင်း)
စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း၊ ကနီမြို့နယ်၊ ဇီးပင်တွင်းကျေးရွာအနီး ဇူလိုင် (၂၆) ရက် ညနေပိုင်းက အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်နှင့် ဒေသခံကာကွယ်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (PDF) တို့ တိုက်ပွဲဖြစ်ခဲ့ရာ ရွာသားတချို့နှင့် PDF အဖွဲ့ဝင်တချို့ ပျောက်ဆုံးနေ ၍ လိုက်လံရှာဖွေရာမှ ဇီးပင်တွင်းရွာ အနောက်ဘက်ယာတောထဲတွင် ဒဏ်ရာများနှင့် ရုပ်အလောင်း (၅) လောင်း ကို ပထမအကြိမ်ရှာဖွေမှုတွင်လည်းကောင်း၊ နောက်ထပ် အလောင်း (၇) လောင်းကို ဒုတိယအကြိမ် ရှာဖွေမှု တွင်လည်းကောင်း စုစုပေါင်း ရုပ်အလောင်း (၁၂) လောင်းကို ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၇ ရက်နေ့၌ ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိခဲ့ပြန်သည်။
ဒုတိယအကြိမ်ရှာဖွေမှုတွင် ရွာသားများက မြေကျင်းတစ်ခုကို တူးဖော်ခဲ့ရာ မြှုပ်နှံထားသည့် အလောင်း (၄) လောင်း၊ သစ်ပင်တွင် ကြိုးဖြင့် ချိတ်ဆွဲထားသည့် အလောင်း (၁) လောင်း၊ မြေပြင်တွင် လဲကျနေသော ရုပ်အလောင်း (၂) လောင်းကို တွေ့ရှိခဲ့သည်ဟု သိရသည်။ အဆိုပါ ရုပ်အလောင်း (၇) လောင်းမှာ အသက် (၆၀) ကျော်အရွယ် သက်ကြီးပိုင်း (၂) ဦး၊ ကိုယ်လက်အင်္ဂါမသန်စွမ်းသူ (၁) ဦး၊ အသက် (၁၈) မှ (၃၀) ကြား (၄) ဦး၏ ရုပ်အလောင်းများ ဖြစ်ကြသည်။
ဇူလိုင်လ (၂၇) ရက်နေ့က ရှာဖွေမှုနှစ်ခုတွင် တွေ့ရှိခဲ့သည့် ရုပ်အလောင်း (၁၂) လောင်းမှာ ဇီးပင်တွင်းရွာမှ (၂) ဦး၊ ချင်းဖုန်းရွာမှ (၁) ဦး၊ သမင်ဇပ်ရွာမှ (၁) ဦး၊ သလောက်ရွာမှ (၁) ဦးနှင့် မုံရွာမှ (၇) ဦး ဖြစ်ကြောင်းသိရသည်။ ရုပ်အလောင်းအားလုံး၏ ခန္ဓာကိုယ်တွင် တူညီသည့်အချက်မှာ ရိုက်နှက်၊ နှိပ်စက်ညှဉ်းပမ်းခြင်းကြောင့် ဒဏ်ရာ အများအပြား ရှိနေခြင်းဖြစ်သည်ဟု ဒေသခံများက ဆိုသည်။
စတုတ္ထအကြိမ်ဖြစ်စဉ် (ရုပ်အလောင်း ၁၁ လောင်း)
အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အကြမ်းဖက်တပ်များနှင့် ကနီမြို့နယ် ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်များ ဇူလိုင်လ (၂၆) ရက်နှင့် (၂၇) ရက်နေ့တို့တွင် ကနီမြို့နယ် တောင်ပေါက်အုပ်စု ထူးကျေးရွာအနီးတွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်၏ ဝင်ရောက်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုကြောင့် ဒေသခံများက ပြန်လည်ခုခံရင်း တိုက်ပွဲဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည်။ ထို့နောက် နောက်တစ်ရက် (၂၈) ရက်နေ့ နံနက်တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်က ကြပ်ချောင်းတောတိုက်တွင် တောင်သူလုပ်ကိုင်နေသော သရက်တောရွာသား ကိုအောင်ကျော်မြင့်၏ တဲအိမ်အတွင်းဝင်ရောက်၍ ကိုအောင်ကျော်မြင့်အပါအဝင် ထမင်းစား နေသောအမျိုးသား (၁၁) ဦးအား ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပြီး တဲကိုပါ မီးရှို့ဖျက်စီးခဲ့သည်။
ထို့နောက် နံနက် (၁၀) နာရီခန့်အချိန်တွင် သရက်တောရွာသား ကိုမြင့်သိန်း၏ ယာခင်းအစပ်မှ သေနတ်သံ ဆယ်ချက်ကျော်ခန့် ကြားရကြောင်းကို သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရသည့်အထဲတွင် ပါဝင်သူ၏ ဇနီးပြောကြားချက်အရ သိရ သည်။
ဒေသခံများက လိုက်လံရှာဖွေရာ ကနီမြို့နယ် တောင်ပေါက် ကျေးရွာအုပ်စု ကျောက်တံခါးချောင်းနှင့် ကြပ်ချောင်း အဆုံ၊ ကိုမြင့်သိန်း (သရက်တောရွာ)၏ ယာခင်းအတွင်း အမျိုးသား (၁၁) ဦးအား အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ် ခံထားရပြီး ဆိုင်ကယ် (၂) စီး နှင့်အတူ မီးရှို့ခံထားရသည်ကို ဇူလိုင်လ (၃၁) ရက်နေ့က တွေ့ရှိခဲ့သည်။
သေဆုံးသူများမှာ အမျိုးသားများဖြစ်ပြီး ခိုတွင်းရွာမှ (၁) ဦး၊ သရက်တောရွာမှ (၆) ဦး၊ ကနီမြို့ပေါ်မှ (၃) ဦး နှင့် ညောင်သူများရွာမှ (၁) ဦး စုစုပေါင်း (၁၁) ဦးဖြစ်သည်။ ကနီမြို့ပေါ်မှ (၃) ဦးမှာ ညီအစ်ကိုများဖြစ် ပြီး သရက်တောရွာရှိ ဆွေမျိုးများထံ တောင်သူအလုပ်လုပ်ရင်း မီးသွေးဖုတ်နေကြသူများ ဖြစ်သည်ဟု သိရသည်။
တွေ့ရှိရသည့် ရုပ်အလောင်းများအနက် (၃) လောင်းတွင် မျက်နှာနှင့် ခန္ဓာကိုယ်အနှံ့ ညိုမည်းဒဏ်ရာများဖြစ်ပေါ် နေခြင်း၊ ဦးခေါင်းနှင့် ရင်ဘတ်များတွင် သေနတ်ဖြင့်ပစ်ခတ်ထားခြင်း၊ မျက်နှာများအား ဓါတ်ဆီလောင်း မီးရှို့ ထားခြင်းစသည့် ဒဏ်ရာများလည်းတွေ့ရှိခဲ့ပြီး အလောင်းများမှာလည်း ပုပ်ပွလျက်ရှိသည်။
ထိုအခင်းဖြစ်ပွားပြီး နောက်ဆက်တွဲအနေနှင့် ကနီမြို့နယ် ကင်းတောင်အုပ်စု ခိုတွင်းကျေးရွာနေ ဦးမောင်မြင့်က စစ်အုပ်စု၏အကြမ်းဖက် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကြောင့် စိတ်ဖေါက်ပြန်သွားပြီး နောက်တစ်ရက် ဩဂုတ်လ (၁) ရက်နေ့ ညနေတွင် ကနီမြို့ပေါ်ရှိ အထက ကျောင်းနားသို့ ဆိုင်ကယ်ဖြင့် သွားရောက်ခဲ့သည်။ ထို့နောက် ကျောင်းအတွင်း စခန်းချနေသော အကြမ်းဖက်တပ်သားများကို “မင်းတို့တွေကြောင့် တို့ပြည်သူတွေ သေရတာ” ဟုအော်ဟစ်ပြီး ကျောင်းအုတ်တံတိုင်းနားသို့ ကပ်သွားစဉ် မည်သည့်လက်နက်မျှမပါသော ဦးမောင်မြင့်အား အကြမ်းဖက်အဖွဲ့၏ တပ်သားများမှ ပစ်သတ်ခဲ့ကြပြီး အလောင်းအား ညတွင်းချင်းဖျောက်ဖျက်လိုက်ကြကြောင်း မိသားစုထံမှ သိရ သည်။
အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ရက်စက်သော လူမဆန်စွာကျူးလွန်မှုများမှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနေရာအနှံ့အပြားတွင် နေ့စဉ် နှင့်အမျှ ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေလျက်ရှိပြီး အထက်ပါ ကနီမြို့နယ်ဖြစ်စဉ်များမှာ တိကျသော သက်သေအထောက်အထား များဖြင့် ပေါ်ပေါက်လာရသည့် ဖြစ်ရပ်တစ်ခုပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ အဆိုပါဖြစ်ရပ်များမှာ အစုလိုက် အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ် မှုအပါအဝင် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ဆိုးဝါးရက်စက်သော ရာဇဝတ်မှုမြောက်ပြီး မြန်မာပြည်သူ လူထုတစ်ရပ်လုံး၏ အသက်အိုးအိမ်စည်းစိမ်ကို စစ်အုပ်စုက အကြီးအကျယ် ခြိမ်းခြောက်လျက်ရှိကြောင်း သက်သေခံလျက်ရှိသည်။ စစ်အုပ်စုသည် ၎င်းတို့ ကျူးလွန်သော ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို တာဝန်ယူ၊ တာဝန်ခံရမည် ဖြစ်သည်။
ကနီမြို့နယ်တွင် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရမှုများသည် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေအရ အမြစ် ပြတ် သုတ်သင်ရှင်းလင်းရေးလုပ်ရပ်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။ (၁၉၄၉) ခုနှစ် ဂျီနီဗာကွန်ဗင်းရှင်းနှင့် (၁၉၇၇) ခုနှစ်၊ ဇွန်လ (၈) ရက်နေ့၌ ထပ်မံ ဖြည့်စွက်ထားသော နောက်ဆက်တွဲစာချုပ်များတွင် ပြည်တွင်း/ပြည်ပ စစ်ပွဲများကြောင့် အရပ်သားနှင့် အရပ်သားများ၏ ပစ္စည်းဥစ္စာများ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဆိုင်ရာ၊ ဘာသာရေးဆိုင်ရာ အဆောက်အဦများကို ပစ်မှတ်ထားမတိုက်ခိုက်ရန် အစရှိသည့် စံနှုန်းများကိုလည်း တိကျစွာ ဖော်ပြထားသည်။
ဂျီနီဗာသဘောတူ စာချုပ် (၄) ဖြစ်သော စစ်အတွင်း၌ အရပ်သားများကိုကာကွယ်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာသဘောတူစာချုပ် (၁၉၄၉) ၏ အပိုဒ်(၃၂) အရ စစ်ပွဲအတွင်း ကာကွယ်ပေးရမည့်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များအား ရုပ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနာကျင်မှုဖြစ်စေရန် ဆောင်ရွက်မှု (သို့) အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်မှု ဖြစ်စေနိုင်သော ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများကို တားမြစ်ထားသည်။ သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်း၊ ရိုက်နှက်အပြစ်ပေးခြင်း၊ ဆေးပညာ (သို့) သိပ္ပံပညာအတွက် အသုံးချခြင်းတို့ကို အရပ်သားပြည်သူများ သာမက စစ်ဘက်ဆိုင်ရာအေးဂျင့်များကပင် ပြုလုပ်ခွင့်မရှိဟု ပြဌာန်းထားသည်။
ကနီဖြစ်စဉ်သည် ဂျီနီဗာကွန်ဗင်းရှင်းကို ပြောင်ပြောင်တင်းတင်းချိုးဖောက်ပြီး အရပ်သားများကို ပစ်မှတ်ထား၍ အမြစ်ပြတ် သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ ထို့ကြောင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအနေဖြင့် ထိုသို့ လူသားမျိုးနွယ် အပေါ် ကျုးလွန်သော ရာဇဝတ်မှုကို ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချရမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး ထိထိရောက်ရောက် တရားစွဲဆိုရမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ ယခုကဲ့သို့သော ဖြစ်ရပ်များမှာ ကနီဒေသ တစ်ခုထဲတင်မဟုတ်ဘဲ ဒီပဲယင်းမြို့နယ်နှင့် အခြားသော မြို့နယ်များ တွင်လည်း ဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိသည်ကို သိရှိရပြီး အဆိုပါဖြစ်ရပ်များနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ နောက်ပိုင်းတွင် ဆက်လက် ထုတ်ပြန်သွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်။
ဒုတိယဖြစ်စဉ်တွင် အသက် (၆၀) ကျော် (၂) ဦးနှင့် မသန်စွမ်းသူ (၁) ဦး သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းခံရသည်။ စစ်အုပ်စုသည် လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းအတွင်းတွင် အားနွဲ့ပြီးထိခိုက်အလွယ်ဆုံးဖြစ်သည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များနှင့် မသန်စွမ်းသူများကိုပင် ပစ်မှတ်ထား၍ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်သည့် လုပ်ရပ်များကို အကြိမ်ကြိမ်ကျူးလွန်လျက်ရှိသည်။ ထိုကဲ့သို့ ထိခိုက်နစ်နာ ခံစားလွယ်သော လူအုပ်စုများကို နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအနေဖြင့် အကာအကွယ်ပေးရမည်ဟု တိကျသော ကတိကဝတ်များ ပြုထားသည်။
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံပေါင်း (၁၈၂) နိုင်ငံက အတည်ပြုခဲ့ရေးထိုးခဲ့သည့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ မသန်စွမ်းသူများ အခွင့် အရေးဆိုင်ရာ သဘောတူစာချုပ် အပိုဒ် (၁၅) ၌ “စာချုပ်အဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံများသည် မသန်စွမ်းသူများအား ညှဉ်းပန်း နှိပ်စက်ခြင်းမှ ကာကွယ်ရမည်” ဟု အသေးစိတ် ဖော်ပြထားသည်။ ထိုသူများအား လိုအပ်သော အကာအကွယ် ပေးမှုရရှိစေရေးအတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအနေဖြင့်လည်း တာဝန်ရှိမှုကို စောင့်ထိန်းလိုက်နာရမည် ဖြစ်သည်။
ထို့ကြောင့် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းမှ ထိုကဲ့သို့သော ကိစ္စရပ်များအတွက် အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စု၏ လုပ်ရပ်များကို အရေးယူ တုံ့ပြန်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများ ပြုလုပ်ရန်လိုအပ်သည်ကို ရှင်းရှင်းလင်းလင်း တွေ့နိုင်သည်။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေညီလာခံတွင် အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စု၏ တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းခြင်း ကို ငြင်းပယ်ရမည်မှာ အသေအချာပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ တဆက်တည်းတွင် မြန်မာပြည်သူတရပ်လုံး၏ သဘောထားကို ထင်ဟပ်သည့် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (National Unity Government) ကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ တရားဝင် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့အဖြစ် နိုင်ငံတကာမှ သတ်မှတ်ပေးရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။ NUG အစိုးရအဖွဲ့အနေဖြင့်လည်း ရောမ စာချုပ်ကို အတည်ပြုလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးပြီး အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စုအား အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ရာဇဝတ်မှုတရားရုံး (International Criminal Court, ICC) သို့ တင်ရမည်ဖြစ်သလို အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာတရားရုံး (International Court of Justice, ICJ) ၌လည်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကို တရားဝင်ကိုယ်စားပြုပေးရမည်ဖြစ်သည်။..."
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" People arrested:
In Karenni State the total number of people arrested since the coup has increased from 135 to
150 during the past two weeks. Three villagers were arrested on August 6, from Kayan
Thayar village in Loikaw Township. Their names were Khun Nyein Chan, Khun Bey and
Khun Poe O. They were tortured while being detained on suspicion of being connected to the
KNDF. They were released on August 7.
On August 11, another three youth from Daw U Khu quarter in Loikaw township were
arrested at their homes by SAC. It appears they were arrested on suspicion of connections
with a PDF.
On August 14, four male villagers from Daw Takleh and Htee Phoe Kaloe village in
Demawso township, including a 15-year-old boy, were arrested while they were going back
to their village from an IDP camp to get some rations for their families. They were tied up
with rope and brought to the SAC camp on Daw Tadah Mountain.
On August 14, SAC troops came to the home of social worker Roselynn (also known as Ma
Ei) in Naung Yang, quarter of Loikaw Town and arrested her mother and brother and 3
young volunteer aid workers who were in the house. The SAC troops said that if Ma Ei gave
herself up, they would free those who were arrested.
Ongoing military aggression
The SAC has declared it is continuing its unilateral ceasefire from August to October, but in
practice, it has increased clearance operations into the areas where the KNDF and IDPs are
staying, and clearly has no intention of stopping its military offensives in Karenni State.
On August 3, SAC troops under Infantry Division 66 clashed with KNPP and KNDF troops
four times while moving from Tah Leh village to Marcrawshay village in Pruso township. 11
SAC soldiers were killed and over 20 were injured during the clashes. At 4 pm, the SAC
shelled and fired machine guns into Nan Peh village in Bawlake township for no apparent
reason, then entered the village and looted goods and money from shops.
On August 4, SAC troops under Infantry Division 66 were carrying out an operation against
the KNPP and KNDF, when they clashed with KNPP and KNDF troops between Kupra
mountain and Bethu (upper) village in western Demawso township. 3 SAC soldiers were
killed and some injured.
On August 4, at 8:45 am, SAC troops entered Naung Yang quarter of Loikaw town and shot
at some houses without giving any reason. Some houses were damaged, and a young woman
was wounded in her knee by an explosive shell.
On August 6, at 10 pm, two youths riding a motorbike in Loikaw town were shot from behind
by SAC troops. One was hit in the back and one was wounded in one arm.
On August 8, 300 SAC troops clashed with KNPP and KNDF troops between upper Bethu
village in Pekhon township and Domoko village in Pruso township. 10 SAC soldiers were
killed during the clash.
On August 9, in the evening, fighting took place between SAC and KNPP/KNDF troops near
Beya village in western Pruso township. On the same day, while carrying out military
operations, SAC troops from Pinlaung township in Shan State clashed with KNDF troops
near Lawei village and Kaung Ei village in Pekhon township, Shan State
On August 10, over 120 CDM staff from Loikaw Teik Chauk Lone building (government
housing) were evicted by SAC.
On August 12, SAC troops clashed with KNPP/KNDF troops near Htee Klu Daw village in
Pruso township. Five SAC soldiers were killed and three were injured. During this clash,
KNDF reported that they seized some small guns and one mortar from the SAC. After this,
on the same day, SAC troops started deploying more soldiers in and around Pruso town. A
clash took place near Kadah Lah village, close to Pruso town, between SAC and
KNPP/KNDF troops. LIB 102 and LIB 531 based in Demawso township launched artillery
shells to support their troops in Pruso township, injuring a woman from Htee Por Hso village
in Pruso township in her thigh, and a male villager in his arm from Nyow Khone village,
Demawso Township.
On August 14, at 7 am, SAC troops together with PNO troops from Pinlaung township
entered Pekhon township, and clashed with combined troops from Pekhon PDF, Moebye
PDF, KNDF and KNPP near Pin Pon village and Lahwei village. The fighting lasted about 11
hours. Two of the PDF were injured, and five SAC soldiers and six PNO soldiers were killed.
On August 15, 100 SAC troop reinforcements in 35 military trucks were heading from
Loikaw to Pekhon, when they were ambushed by KNPP and KNDF troops at Kaung Maing
village near Moebye town.
Situation of IDPs and humanitarian aid
The number of IDPs continues to increase due to the ongoing fighting. Following the fierce
SAC offensive around Pruso town on August 12, a further 674 villagers from nearby villages
fled to the jungle as IDPs. The growing number of IDPs is causing increased humanitarian
needs. Apart from the need for food and shelter, medical aid is urgently required due to the
growing spread of Covid 19 in IDP camps. In Hsin IDP camp, in eastern Loikaw township,
47 Covid positive cases have been found during the past two weeks..."
Source/publisher:
Karenni Civil Society Network
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-18
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Armed conflict in Karenni State, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Internal displacement/forced migration of Karenni villagers, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"As of 18 August, (1006) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (7) fallen heroes today. These (7) fallen heroes from Minkin Township and Shwebo Township in Sagaing Region and Pauk Township in Magway Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 18, a total of (5730) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Terrorist junta’s soldiers who were drunk pointed a gun to the temple of Zaw Myo Myint and shot him dead at close range among people at a port in Minkin Town, Sagaing Region on the evening of August 17. Junta troops beat and then shot Zaw Myo Myint for not wearing a face mask while he was sitting and chewing the betel nut in the port. Zin Mar Win from Min Sar village in Minkin Township who heard the sound of gunshots and witnessed Zaw Myo Myint’s dead body, died on the spot from a heart attack.
Terrorist junta’s troops raided Kyauk Khel Tat Village in Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township and arrested three villagers named Bo Aung, Chit Lwin and Phoe Toke on August 16. They killed these three villagers on August 17 and concealed the bodies in Chindwin River.
Hla Myint Oo, living in Thapyay Yay Village in Magway Region Pauk Township, who had opened a shop, was shot with a tumee (traditional hunting) rifle used by junta troops on the evening of August 13. The junta then set a bomb on an old motorbike in front of his shop.
In addition, junta troops raided Paline, Gonetan and Kanthar Villages in Sagaing Region’s Shwebo Township, then arrested and shot dead a local from Gonetan Village called Nan, on August 12. The incident happened at a school in Paline Village where they had set up camp after they questioned Nan who came past but failed to reply.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]..."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-08-18
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"In over (70) years of civil war in Burma, ethnic nationalities have suffered torture, extrajudicial killings, massacres, rape, villages burned to the ground, and residents forced to flee their homes in indiscriminate junta military so-called ‘Military Clearance Policy’. Human rights and civil society organizations across Burma have repeatedly called for action to end this military’s impunity. The UN formed a fact-finding mission in 2017 to investigate the repeated human rights violations. And yet, the junta has continued to perpetrate human rights abuses, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
The military junta seized power and arbitrary arrested the country’s elected leaders on February 1, 2021. People across the regions and states have been resisting the junta in various ways. Kani Township, Yinmabin District, Sagaing Region is known as a prominent area of opposition to the coup. The juntas’ response has been to target and destroy areas in Kani Township, and surrounding villages and forests with shootings, arrests, and raids in military incursions. Thousands of residents have fled to nearby villages and forests. The junta has also entered these villages and killed buffaloes, cows, and looted property from the villages.
44th and 99th Light Infantry Division, including battalion 228th based in Kale Township, have attacked almost every village in Kani Township, using some thousand troops in three different strategic divisions. Many locals have endured inhumane atrocities by the junta. Arbitrary arrest, torture, and sometimes being killed through torture. It has also been reported that internal displaced persons are suffering from food and medical shortages. The terrorist (junta) group has been collecting money through extortion, as well as assaulting, intimidating, and beating locals like with rifle stocks when they travel to Monywa Township to purchase necessities.
Ooredoo and Telenor tele-com operators’ internet and phone lines were suspended on July 9, and MPT was cut off on August 2 in some villages in Kani Township. According to locals, only the military owned Mytel internet and phone line are currently available in some villages. The junta has been uses its four cuts doctrine to indiscriminately target civilians. In July alone, the junta committed 4 massacres in Kani Township villages. At least 43 people have been discovered killed in this way.
First massacre (4 fatalities)
Four men were arrested, tortured, and shot in the head on July 1, between 4 – 6 pm in Shitkoetat Forest between Mone O Village and Ywar Thar Village, Kani Township, Yinmabin District, Sagaing Region. According to locals, the (4) corpses were found headless from shootings on July 3. Some (25) motorcycles were found burned in a nearby fire. The (4) men were each from Sein Kone Village, Phan Khar Kone Village, Sule Kone Village, and Inn Chaung Village.
Second massacre (16 fatalities)
The junta stormed Yin Village and Kone Thar Village, located on the eastern bank of Chindwin River. They entered the village, forcing residents to flee to Kyauk Hle Ka Village on July 9 and 10. Missing were twenty-six villagers. When locals went searching for them, (15) dead bodies were discovered in the valley on Khin Tan Shay Hill, east of Yin Village, Kani Township, Sagaing Region, and (1) dead body was found in another nearby village. According to locals from Yin Village, the dead bodies were found on July 11 and 12 on the hill east of Yin Village.
The (16) murdered persons were from Yin Village (13), Kone Thar Village (1), Paluzawa Village (1), and from Htauk Kyan Kone Village (1). Most of the victims were men, aged between (30) and (50), one of the victims was a male in his 60’s. All the corpses were found with signs of severe torture, some with cuts and bruises on faces and necks.
Third massacre (12 fatalities)
A clash between the military junta and People Defense Force (PDF) happened near Zee Pin Dwin Village, Kani Township, Sagaing Region, on the evening of July 26. Some villagers and PDF went missing. Five dead bodies were found in the first search, by the paddle field behind Zee Pin Dwin Village, and another seven dead bodies were found in a second search. Total of (12) corpses were discovered on July 27.
During the second search, the villagers dug a pit and found (4) victims, (1) hanging from a tree, and (2) lying on the ground. Of these (7) fatalities found in the second search, (2) were elderly over the age of 60, (1) was disabled, and (4) others were aged between 18 – 30.
The (12) fatalities from this third massacre were from Zee Pin Dwin Village (2), Chin Phone Village (1), Thamin Zat Village (1), Tha Lauk Village (1), and Monywa Township (7). According to locals all the victims were found with wounds and injuries from beatings and torture.
Fourth massacre (11 fatalities)
Junta troops raided a small village near Htoo Village, Taungpauk Village Tract, Kani Township. A local People Defense Force (PDF) from Kani Township resisted the attack and a clash unfolded on July 26 and 27. On the morning of July 28, the junta raided Ko Aung Kyaw Myint’s house, a farmer from Thayat Taw Village, who was working in Kyat Chaung Taw Tike. (11) men, including Ko Aung Kyaw Myint, were detained, and his house burned down by the terrorist group. According to one of the victims’ wives, she heard (10) gunshots around 10 am close by to Ko Myint Thein’s farm, a local in Thayat Taw Village.
On July 31, the villagers went on a search and found (11) men massacred in Ko Myint Thein’s farm, in Thayat Taw Village. (2) motorbikes had also been set on fire at the intersection of Kyauktaga and Kyat Creeks, Taungpauk Village Tract, Kani Township.
The (11) victims were all men and from Kho Dwin Village (1), Thayat Taw Village (6), Kani Township (3), and Nyaung Thu Village (1). The (3) from Kani Township were brothers working as farmers in coal manufacturing in their relatives’ village. Among the dead, (3) had bruises on their faces and all over their bodies, they had been shot in the head and chest, with burns on their faces from gasoline. All the bodies were rotting by the time they were found.
In the aftermath of the incident, U Maung Myint, a resident from Kho Dwin Village, Kintaung Village Tract, Kani Township, was mentally distressed by the massacre and drove his motorcycle to a high school in Kani Township where junta troops were based on the evening of August 1. U Maung Myint shouted “civilians died because of you”. He went close to the school’s wall unarmed, the junta then shot. According to his family, junta troops disappeared the body over the night.
Atrocities committed by this terrorist group are happening across Burma daily. The massacres in Kani Township are but incidents which have emerged with concrete evidence. These events testify that the junta is committing crimes against humanity. It is the junta which is responsible for these crimes threatening the lives and property of civilians all over Burma.
The massacres in Kani Township are an act of extermination under the international law. The (1949) Geneva Convention and its June 8, (1977) additional protocols established international humanitarian law norms such as protection of the civilian population, objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian, cultural objects and places of worship due to international or non-international armed conflicts.
According to article (32) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Geneva Convention related to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands is prohibited. This applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishment, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person, but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents.
The Kani Township massacres and targeting of civilians is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions. The junta’s torture and murder of civilians in Kani Township must be condemned by the international community as crimes against humanity and litigated accordingly. Similar incidents to Kani Township occurred in Depayin Township and other townships. These incidents will consequently be examined by civil society organizations.
(2) persons over the age of 60, and (1) disabled person were killed in the second massacre. This junta has repeatedly committed torture towards the most vulnerable members of society, such as children and the disabled. Groups which the international community has made specific pledges to protect.
Article (15) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by (182) countries, including Burma, states that “States Parties shall protect persons with disabilities from being subjected to torture”. The international community must adhere to its vital responsibility to ensure these groups are protected.
It is therefore necessary for the international community to act against this terrorist group and reject a murderous junta and illegitimate coup at the United Nations General Assembly. At the same time, the National Unity Government, with legitimacy granted by Burma’s people, must be recognized and given appropriate credentials by the international community as the legitimate government in Burma.
Upon ratifying the Rome Statue, the NUG must refer the junta to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and represent Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)..."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica and Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma
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2021-08-18
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"Kachin State
Hpakant Township
July 1 at 1045 hrs., ten 81mm mortar rounds fired from Nam Ya Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) (12) Base to the sides of Hkrai Run, Gawlu Yang gold mining area, in Hpakant Township. At 1625 hrs., Burma army soldiers from Kamaing Byuha Base (Tactical Base) indiscriminately fired a mortar round toward Dam.
July 2 at 1450 hrs., Nam Ya LIB (12) fired 18 82mm mortar rounds to the side of Head of Gawlu Yang village, in Hpakant Township.
July 2 at 2:50 p.m., Nam Ya LIB (12) fired mortar rounds indiscriminately and one of the grenades landed on a compound in the home of Deacon Hpukawn Ze Naw, Kumtsai Zup village. For that, the soldiers of the Burmese army from the Nam Ya base sent 100,000 kyats to the family in whose yard a shell was landed – through Mr. Gum Maw Awng and his friends, but the family did not accept the money and told them instead not to fire mortars into the village next time, in Hpakant Township.
July 4 at 1500 hrs., Nam Ya LIB (12) fired four 82mm rounds to Kumtsai village, in Hpakant Township. At 1220 hrs., Kamai Byuha Base fired one mortar round to the side of Gawng Hka.
July 7 at 0650 hrs., the combined troops numbering around 50 soldiers from LIB (116) and Infantry Battalion (IB) (42) coming from Kasen Bum were attacked with mines along Namkawn Rung, Seng Awng village by Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldiers from 6th Battalion, leaving many Burma Amry soldiers killed or injured. The injured were sent to Hpakant hospital.
July 14, around 70 combined Burma Army soldiers led by IB (42) Commander, Maj. Zaw Myo Than and Maj. San Aung from LIB (116) operating along a crop field behind Gatnoi village clashed with KIA soldiers from 11th Battalion at Microwave Bum (KJ 520 372) between Gawlu Yang and Hkumtsai Zup village, Hpakant Township.
July 15 between 0535-0542 hrs., the clash erupted again when KIA soldiers carried out a clearance operation at the site. Nam Ya LIB (12) backed by 60mm mortar fire during the fighting that a shell landed in the house of Zahkung Zau Seng, injuring five civilians: Maji La Ja, Ms. Hpauyu Hkawn Nu, Hpaula Dut La (in serious condition), Hpaula Kai and Ms. Marip Myu Htoi Tsin, and another shell landed in the house of Mr. Lamwi Naw Jat, at Seng Hpra village, killing one pig.
July 15 between 0930-0955 hrs., the fighting continued between around 70 combined Burma Army soldiers and KIA’s militia along the uphill of Hkumtsai Zup Church (KJ 528 266).
July 16 at 1540 hrs., Nam Ya LIB (12) fired 3 82mm mortar rounds toward Manaw Maw. At 155o hrs., Burma Army soldiers arriving along Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) Worship Hill, Hkutsai Zup village fired 4 60mm rounds to the side of Microwave Bum, in Hpakant Township.
July 19 at 1300 hrs., Nam Ya LIB (12) Base fired three 82mm mortar rounds to the side of Hkumtsai Zup, in Hpakant Township.
July 22 at 0656 hrs., two KIA soldiers from 44th Battalion attacked Burma Army checkpoint at Kamaing – Lawa road junction with two remote mines, leaving two Burma Army soldiers dead and two wounded, in Hpakant Township.
Mansi, Monyin, Putao, Danai/Tanai Townships
July 2 between 1540-1600 hrs., around 50 combined Burma Army soldiers from IB (250) and LIB (424) coming from Banggaw, Manlep were attacked with mines at Hpumlum Hkyet between Hkachyang Hku and Maji Gung, by KIA soldiers from 27th Battalion, injuring around ten Burma Army soldiers, in Mansi Township.
July 21 at 0820 hrs., around 20 Burma Army soldiers from IB (276) coming on foot from Loihkam Bum were attacked with a mine by KIA soldiers from 12th Battalion, leaving five (BA) soldiers wounded. The Burma Army soldiers reacted by firing 79mm and small arms in all directions, in Mansi Township.
July 21 at 1030 hrs., People’s Defense Force (PDF) attacked Burma Army soldiers on a truck near Lwan Hkwa village between Naba and Katha, in Monyin Township.
July 23, around 80 Burma Army soldiers from LIB (309) operating on foot from Katha were attacked with a mine by KIA soldiers and PDF, leaving five Burma Army dead and five wounded, in Monyin Township.
July 12 at 2100 hrs., KIA soldiers from 7th Battalion fired five M-79 grenade launchers at Sumpyi Yang IB (137) Base (LJ 656 734), Putao Township.
July 5 at 2038 hrs., IB (297) stationed at Jahtu Zup fired six mortar rounds to the side of KIA 14th Battalion, in Danai Township.
Momauk Township
July 2 at 0935 hrs., KIA soldiers from 19th Battalion attacked around 100 Burma Army soldiers operating at Mansai road junction with a mine between Loi Mawk and Dung Hung, injuring 4 or 5 soldiers. Burma Army soldiers reacted by firing in the vicinity, which lasted 10 minutes, resulting in five civilians (including a 2-year-old child) wounded, in Momauk Township. A 2-year-old child was sent to Myitkyina hospital due to a serious condition, while the four were sent to Dawhpum Yang hospital.
July 10 at 0610 hrs., KIA soldiers from 15th Battalion detonated an IED at Burma Army soldiers coming from Numlang between Ta Li and Taw Be, in Momauk Township. Burma Army soldiers reacted by indiscriminate fire: small arms and mortars nearby.
July 10 between 1125-1135 hrs., Kunglaw LIB (387) Base fired 11 120mm mortar rounds toward KIA 25th Battalion area, in Momauk Township. At 1932 hrs., a jet flew over Salawng Kawng and Myo Tit.
July 11 at 2145 hrs., 15 mortar/artillery rounds were fired: from LIB (387) to the side of Salawng Kawng, from LIB (438) and IB (142) to the sides of KIA 19th, 25th and 30th Battalion areas. One shell fired from IB (142) Base landed on a cowshed of Khin Maung Nyut from Dawhpum Yang village which killed four cows, in Momauk Township.
July 12 at 0850 hrs., KIA’s militiamen attacked with two mines at a 4×4 truck carrying 8 Armed Policemen from No.30 Police Station en route to Yuma village from Hpakant, leaving two policemen wounded. The incident took place in front of Yuma School. Another 4×4 car carrying 6 policemen, going to check the incident, were detonated a mine at 1315 hrs. too.
July 23 at 1324 hrs., KIA soldiers from 15th Battalion attacked around 20 Bumra Army soldiers coming from Hka Wan Bang by a truck and five motorcycles with two mines – at Alen Kawng village, Koit Tit road (LG 333 824), leaving one soldier on motorcycle wounded, in Momauk Township.
July 23 between 1852-2025 hrs., Burma Army soldiers stationed at Hpunpyen Bum stepped on a landmine on the way to fetch water. In retaliation, they fired 6 mortar rounds from Hkangkai Bum toward Shang Htung Bum, 3 rounds from Bumre toward a KIA post under GHQ command, in Momauk Township.
Waingmaw Township
July 2 at 1209 hrs., IB (58) fired three 105mm howitzers toward Machyang Bum behind Washawng village, in Waimaw Township.
July 8 at 2008 hrs., KIA soldiers from 3rd Battalion attacked Shwe Nyaung Pin LIB (321) Base with 60mm mortar rounds and grenade launchers, in Waimaw Township.
July 11 between 2000-2010 hrs., KIA soldiers from 3rd Battalion attacked Burma Army’s Aung Mye Thit Bridge Post, seizing two M-22 rifles along with over 500 bullets and other items. The (KIA) soldiers set fire to their (BA) camps, in Waimaw Township.
July 11 at 2125 hrs., IB (58) Base fired two 105mm howitzers to the side of Nang Zaw Yang, in Waimaw Township.
July 21 at 0845 hrs., three KIA soldiers laid a mine inside the checkpoint, Hka Ya road junction wherein Burma Army soldiers from IB (77), under LID (88) sat during the day and withdrew at night. A mine was detonated when the soldiers sat, leaving two dead and three others wounded, in Waimaw Township.
July 21 at 1930 hrs., IB (58) fired four 105mm howitzers to the side of Nang Zaw Yang front line area, in Waimaw Township.
Shwegu Township
July 4 between 2300-2310 hrs., the clash broke out when the combined forces from 12th Battalion and PDF attacked around 30 Burma Army soldiers under LID (88) taking security for underground communication cable at head of Ngabat Gyi village and around 30 policemen stationed Shwegu Quarter (3) Police Station, in Shwegu Township.
July 7 between 0700-0730 hrs., the fighting broke out when KIA soldiers from 5th Battalion fired at three boats carrying around 60 Burma Army soldiers at Gaugwi Hka and Nambu Hka river intersection, in Shwegu Township.
July 9 at 1450 hrs., four jets from Myitkyina dropped two bombs around Chyauk Gyi, Myo Hla, in Shwegu Township.
July 13, around 50 Burma Army soldiers under LID (88) appearing at Ta Ya Kung, Chyauk Ji from Uk Tsi village were attacked with a remote mine, killing one Burma Army soldier and injuring 6 others, in Shwegu Township.
Shan State
Muse Township
July 4 at 1720 hrs., the fighting broke out when around 100 Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) soldiers from No.311 Brigade fired at around 30 Burma Army soldiers from LIB (547) in a truck heading to Loi Ngu from Hpawng Seng – near Loi Ngu village (MG 459 644), in Muse Township.
July 5 between 1240-1320 hrs., Burma Army Base at Hpawng Seng fired four 81mm rounds to the side of Loi Ngu Bum where MNDAA soldiers stationed, in Muse Township.
July 7 at 0820 hrs., around 100 MNDAA soldiers from 311th Brigade attacked Hpawng Seng Base (MG 432 660) where an estimated 100 Burma Army soldiers from LIB (419) stationed, in Muse Township.
July 11 between 1210-1630 hrs., around 40 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) carried out offensive toward Hpawng Seng Udang Bum (MG 455 622) where MNDAA 304th Battalion under 311th Brigade stationed, leaving 8 Burma Army soldiers dead, in Muse Township. Between 1830-1930 hrs., (BA) soldiers continuously fired mortar rounds to the mountain where MNDAA soldiers were stationed.
July 12 at 1800 hrs., there was fighting between MNDAA soldiers and LIB (575) at Hpawng Seng Lashap village, in Muse Township.
July 13 at 0925 hrs., there was fighting between MNDAA soldiers and Burma Army soldiers of an unknown unit between Man Pying village and Nawn Hpai village, in Muse Township.
July 18 between 1401-1320 hrs., the clash broke out when KIA soldiers from 36th Battalion fired at around 100 Burma Army soldiers under Light Infantry Division (LID) (99) coming on foot from Da Lung – Manjak Pa (MG 011 401), in Muse Township.
July 23 between 1920-1935 hrs., around 40 Burma Army soldiers from LIB (419) coming on foot from Hpaikawng clashed with MNDAA soldiers from 505th Battalion, 511th Brigade at Kawng Wai road junction (MG 136 648), in Muse Township.
Kutkai Township
July 4 at 0810 hrs., around 50 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) heading to Man Pyawng Bum from Nam Hpalum were attacked at the coordinates: LG 872 029 between Kawng Lim and Shu Khin Tha by KIA soldiers from 29th Battalion in Kutkai Township.
July 6 at 0955 hrs., an estimated 70 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) coming from Manje were attacked with four mines at Kawng Lim and Bang Hpik road junction (MG 193 182) by MNDAA No.m501 Unit, in Kutkai Township.
July 9 at 1013 hrs., an estimated 100 Burma Army soldiers of an unknown unit coming from Nam Ba Chi village were attacked with a mine by KIA soldiers from 39th Battalion, in Kutkai Township.
July 15 between 0810-0930 hrs., around 110 Burma Army soldiers from IB (290) coming from Manje clashed with around 200 of combined soldiers of MNDAA, AA and KIA at Loi Lem Bum (MG 206 146), in Kutkai Township. Burma Army soldiers from Mung Ji Base backed by 105mm fire.
July 15 at 1200 hrs., Namhpakka IB (123) Base fired two mortar rounds to the side of Bang Gai Ja Maw (gold mining area), in Kutkai Township.
July 15 at 1400 hrs., around 80 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) coming from Nam Jarap clashed with around 60 MNDAA soldiers from No.202 Unit at Huli Bum Hpaleng road junction (MF 151 400), in Kutkai Township.
July 18 between 1300-1320 hrs., the fighting broke out when around 130 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) appeared at Man Jang Pa (MG 011 401) where KIA soldiers from 36th Battalion stayed.
July 19 at 0950 hrs., the fighting broke out when Burma Army soldiers from LID (99) carried out an offensive toward Man Jang Bum (MG 020 391), in Kutkai Township.
July 19 between 0924-1030 hrs., there was fighting between KIA soldiers from 10th Brigade and around 40 Burma Army soldiers from LIB (109) – at Bang Ding village (MG 271 117), in Kutkai Township. Burma Army soldiers from Mung Ji Base backed by 105mm fire.
July 21 between 1100-1120 hrs., MNDAA soldiers from 505th Battalion, under 511th Brigade attacked around 60 combined Burma Army soldiers from IB (79) and LIB (315) coming from Bang Sai Base, when the Burma Army soldiers arrived at uphill of Nam Hu village (MG 080 631). Fighting resumed when MNDAA soldiers attacked again between 1200-1400 hrs., in Kutkai Township.
July 1 at 0830 hrs., KIA soldiers from 8th Battalion detonated a mine at a 4×4 truck in which soldiers from IB (123) were travelling on their way to Namhpakka Quarter (3) Market, leaving two dead, in Kutkai Township.
July 6 at 0955 hrs., an estimated 70 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) coming from Manje were attacked with four mines at Kawng Lim and Bang Hpik road junction (MG 193 182) by MNDAA No.501 Unit, in Kutkai Township.
Lashio, Hseni
July 24 between 1000-1100 hrs., KIA soldiers from 17th Battalion clashed with around 70 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) coming from Pang Ti at Kawng Dap (MF 294 839), in Hseni Township.
July 24 at 0940 hrs., the clash broke out when around 40 Burma Army soldiers under LID (99) appeared at Nawng Sam Bu (MF 267 496) where MNDAA soldiers from 205th Battalion stayed. At 1735 hrs., around 80 Burma Army soldiers from LIB (420) carried out an offensive at Bang Loi Ngin (MF 240 470) where MNDAA soldiers from 205th Battalion initiated fire, in Lashio Township.
June 2021
Kachin Reporting
The month of June saw continued fighting in Shan and Kachin states, with a reported tally of 34 artillery missions, 13 uses of mines and improvised explosive devices, and 27 troop contacts that resulted in short or prolonged fighting between EAO’s and Burma Army forces. In Kachin State much of the reported fighting took place in Hpakant, Mansi, Monyin, Momauk, and Waingmaw Townships, while in Shan State the majority of reported fighting continues to take place in the vicinity of Kuthkai.
Kachin State
Hpakant (Monyin District)
On June 3 at 1750 hrs., Burma Army soldiers from Ginsi Byuha Base fired 4 105mm rounds towards Myithkrum village, Minmaw and Ye Sha Maw in Hpakant Township.
On June 15 between 1740-0830 hrs., an estimated 60 Burma Army soldiers from LIB (116) coming from Lunghkang Gun-powder Station were attacked with mines by KIA soldiers from 6th Battalion which led to fighting. The two Burma Army soldiers were killed and one wounded in the clash, in Hpakant Township.
On June 15 at 1715 hrs., IB (76) stationed at Ginsi Dingnyina Kawng fired two 105mm rounds to the side of 6th Battalion control area and two rounds to the side of 9th Brigade HQ at 1740 hrs., in Hpakant Township.
On June 23 at 2146 hrs., Burma Army soldiers stationed at Kamaing Byuha Kawng (Kamaing Tactical Base) fired two 81mm mortar rounds to the side of Si-En terrain, in Hpakant Township. At 2150 hrs., LIB (12) stationed at Nam Ya fired two 60mm mortar rounds to the side of Sabaw Maw.
On June 23 at 2146 hrs., Burma Army soldiers stationed at Kamaing Byuha Kawng (Kamaing Tactical Base) fired two 81mm mortar rounds to the side of Si-En terrain, in Hpakant Township.
On June 23 at 2150 hrs., LIB (12) stationed at Nam Ya fired two 60mm mortar rounds to the side of Sabaw Maw, in Hpakant Township..."
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2021-08-17
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"As of 17 August, (999) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Kyauksei Township in Mandalay Region died on August 16 and was documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 17, a total of (5712) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Than Sein, a local villager from Kyauk Sauk Kalay Village in Kyauksei Township, Mandalay Region, who was arrested by the terrorist junta’s troop around 10 am on August 15, died on the morning of August 16 due to severe beatings. Three of his teeth fell out due to the punching, and beating with wire and bamboo sticks because Than Sein did not open his phone lock. Than Sein was beaten this way until in the evening, according to locals. Than Sein was actively involved in his community and in-hiding after the terrorist junta came to search and arrest NLD supporters. He was arrested because a junta-appointed administrator informed that he had arrived home from hiding.
Kyaw Thiha, a protest leader with the Mandalay Boycott Forces Column, was hit by a private car driven by the terrorist junta’s troop wearing plain clothes yesterday. Kyaw Thiha was beaten and arrested at gunpoint at 5pm on August 16 on his way driving a motorbike. In addition to this, the terrorist junta raided houses where protestors were hiding and Pi Ti, one of the protestors in that boycott column, was arrested that day.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]..."
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2021-08-17
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More than a third of the population of Kayah State has been displaced by clashes
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"The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) has called on local and international aid groups to provide urgent help to tens of thousands of people affected by both fighting and surging Covid-19 cases in Kayah (Karenni) State.
Junta troops have been raiding villages to break into homes and loot property, while also hampering local efforts to stop the spread of the virus in the state, the group said in a statement on Friday.
The KNPP’s armed wing, the Karenni Army, have clashed with the junta’s forces numerous times in Bawlakhe Township and elsewhere since early May. They have fought alongside the newly formed Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) on some occasions.
Some 100,000 people – more than a third of the population of the state – have fled their homes because of the violence.
The Karenni people are facing hardship in every aspect of life, the KNPP’s statement said, adding that people were in need of food, shelter, and healthcare.
Many of those displaced are living in forests without adequate shelter from this year’s monsoon rains.
“We have been helping the refugees by providing some food, shelter and medication,” said Khu Daniel, a secretary of the KNPP. “We can’t provide them with complete protection as of now, so we need donations for shelters, since it’s the rainy season, as well as food and medication.”
Locals in Hpruso and Demoso townships are also fleeing their homes as fighting intensifies in the area.
A resident of the state capital Loikaw, which is about 20km from the town of Demoso, said that around 1,000 locals from the east of Demoso fled their homes on Friday evening.
She could hear gunshots almost every night and has been preparing to flee as well in the event that the fighting comes closer to her, she added.
“Everything’s hard now considering both the pandemic and the war are here,” she said. “We are just staying in our houses.”
She added: “We have to be prepared to flee as we don’t know when the war will arrive. We’ve got some beds and food ready so we can flee anytime.”
Residents of Loikaw recently set up Covid-19 checkpoints in each neighbourhood but were ordered to stop by the junta last week, she added.
Between June 29 and August 12 there were 729 Covid-19 cases reported in Loikaw, six in Hpruso, 39 in Bawlakhe and 251 in Hpasawng, making up to a total of 1,025 cases including 47 deaths, according to a report in The Kantarawaddy Times.
Dozens of Myanmar military soldiers have been killed in fighting in Kayah in recent months, according to the KNDF, including 80 who died in a battle in early June.
This month 18 junta soldiers have been killed and 20 injured so far, the group said. It has not released full details about casualties among resistance fighters..."
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2021-08-16
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"As of 14 August, (971) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (3) fallen heroes today. These (3) fallen heroes from Falam Township in Chin State, Waingmaw Township in Kachin State and Myaung Township in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 14, a total of (5604) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
A woman called Lang Pyung was shot by the 58th Infantry Battalion after returning from purchasing groceries from Waingmaw on the evening of August 13 when their motorbike passed through a road in front of the 58th Infantry Battalion, her husband managed to escape. The couple, from Wu Yan village in Waingmaw Township, Kachin State. Lang Pyung died at Waingmaw Hospital from a gunshot wound from left to right rib.
On August 12, Joshua from Parmun Chaung village in Falam Township, Chin State, was arrested by the terrorist junta’s troop, and shot dead in the back of the head.
On the night of August 10, the terrorist junta’s troop raided Kyi Kone village in Sagaing Region’s Myaung Township and beat unprovoked a local villager called Nyi Nyi Latt. The junta soldiers shot him to death when he then ran away. The body of Nyi Nyi Latt was found in a port in the village with many injuries on his body, and gunshot injuries to the neck and head, according to locals.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected] ..."
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2021-08-14
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"As of 13 August, (968) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Myingyan Township in Mandalay Region and Minkin Township in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 13, a total of (5571) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
A young girl around one-years-old was shot in the head and stomach and died on the spot in the morning of August 12 at Myingyan Township in Mandalay Region when the terrorist junta’s soldiers opened fire on three young men on motorbikes near the child’s house. In addition to this, Nyein Chan, father of the child, was shot twice in the arm, and the mother was also shot in the leg.
On August 5, junta soldiers and the Pyu Saw Htee detained five Than Pauk villagers near Obo village in Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township allegedly for being involved in the anti-coup revolution. A 26-year-old was beaten to death, called Hlaing Wai Oo, right in front of the detained persons at a school in Pan Sat village. Two sons had taken their mother to Yar Village which is close to Pan Sat village because she was suffering from illness. A total of five people including two sons and their mother and two other men were arrested while returning together. Hlaing Wai Oo was killed in front of his mother. A few days later, three of the villagers were released, but nothing has yet been heard about the one remaining villager.
Win Zaw was arrested when terrorist junta troops wearing plain clothes did not find his son when they searched his home in Dawei, Tanitharyi Region on the morning of August 12.
Myint San, MP of Magwe Region Hluttaw in the constituency No. (2) of Pauk Township and also NLD party member, who was charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code and had a warrant issued against her, was arrested in Nattalin Town in Bago Region on the night of August 11 by local junta police.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]..."
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2021-08-13
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"Myanmar's military junta, which has branded itself as caretaker government, has
announced the extension of ceasefire with conditions. However, taking advantages of
the uniliteral ceasefire, the junta has deployed more troops across Karenni (Kayah)
State who are thre atening lives and properties daily as follow;
1. Claiming to pursue local people resistance forces, junta’s troops have entered
villages and threatened residents, broken into their homes, and looted their
properties including chicken and pigs.
2. Jungle patrols and searches in villages by junta’s troops pose increased danger to
lives and safety of villagers who are in hiding from recent fighting and villagers
who are faming, and cause further displacement.
3. Jungle patrols and attempts to control more areas by junta’s troops have also
increased the number of daily armed clashes with Karenni Amy.
4. Servaral incidents have also been reported on junta’s troops' orders to remove and
p rohibit Covid-19 p revention facilities and programs initiated and supported by
locals in their communities.
Karenni National Progressive Party is very concerned over Burmese military junta's
activities that have endangered community peace, the rule of law, and public safety and
have worsened the risk of starvation among the affected populations.
Therefore, Karenni National Progressive Party urges humanitarian assistance groups in
the country as well as international governments and organizations to pro vide speedy
assistance and take measures to protect the people..."
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2021-08-13
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"As of 12 August, (966) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen heroes today. This (1) fallen hero from Botahtaung Township in Yangon Region was killed on August 10 and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
In relation to the apartment raid by the terrorist junta on 44th street in Botahtaung Township, today, AAPP added Wai Wai Myint a.k.a Apple to our fatality list as we confirmed she had died then. AAPP will continue to verify and report information regarding this incident.
As of August 12, a total of (5562) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
At least five philanthropists including Naing Lin and Jue Mar were arrested on the morning of August 11 whilst they were planning to provide rice to the poor in Wakema Town, Ayeyarwady Region. A local said it is unknown why they were arrested.
On the evening of July 31, Poe Ei Khaing, the wife of Aung Kyaw Htet and his one-year-old daughter were arrested as hostage when the terrorist junta did not find Aung Kyaw Htet from Mandalay who is accused of having relations with the PDF. Poe Ei Khaing was suffering from an illness when she was arrested. The one-year-old daughter was released on August 2 two days after her arrest. The day his one-year-old daughter was released, the police station announced they would allow part-time breastfeeding, but they did not end up allowing this the next day, at which point they said Poe Ei Khaing contracted COVID-19. After this, he did not hear anything about his wife, according to Aung Kyaw Htet.
The nephew of Nay Myo named Myat Noe Lwin was detained as a hostage when the junta did not find Nay Myo, NLD Ward and Village Secretary of Kyauk Gyi Su Ward in Bago at home on the night of August 5. Nay Myo is charged under Section 505 of the Penal Code. In addition to this, the parents and son of Han Tun were detained as hostages when the junta did not find Han Tun, NLD campaigner of Pyan Kya Village in Sagaing Region’s Tabayin Township on the afternoon of August 8.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
“Our uprising must succeed”..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-08-12
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Fighting has raged between junta troops and Peoples Defense Forces in recent months, with police and soldiers storming villages after every clash and arresting and killing local residents.
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"More than 80 civilians have died during clashes in nearly four months of fighting between local militia members and junta forces in one strife-torn township in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing, said the local militia in a statement that accused regime troops of killing 46 in three massacres.
Fighting has raged between junta forces and the Kani People’s Defense Force in Kani township in recent months, with police and soldiers storming nearby villages after every clash and arresting and killing local residents, local sources say.
Junta forces also set fire to homes, take away valuables, farming tools, and agricultural produce, and slaughter cattle, sources say.
A total of 82 township residents have lost their lives, the Kani People’s Defense Force said on Aug. 8 on its Facebook page. Of these, at least 46 people were killed in three separate massacres by Myanmar troops, including 31 members of the militia, it said.
There have been 35 clashes in 31 different places in which 31 of our comrades were killed, and there were three massacres of civilians by the military in which 51 died,” one militia member said.
“The clashes took place on both sides of the Chindwin River in our township,” he told RFA, speaking on condition of anonymity.
At least 50 Kani residents have also been arrested in the past four months, he said.
Since the beginning of the fighting in April, junta forces have set up checkpoints along the Monywa-Yargyu-Kalewa road in Kani township and are closely monitoring all passing pedestrians and motorbikes, local sources say.
“While we were fleeing the fighting, all incoming and outgoing traffic was blocked, and it became very hard to find food,” one township resident said, adding that access even to medicines used to fight fever had been cut off.
“There is no way to buy even a single pill of paracetamol for when you are sick, and cash and over donations from wellwishers can only be carried in small amounts on a motorcycle,” he said. “We have had to share food for the past several days.”
“If this situation continues for much longer, there will be famine. Even now, many people are just eating rice porridge, and some have not been able to cook anything now for a day or two,” he added.
Locals also said that they are fleeing the war during the rainy season, which is usually the farming season, and that this could lead to even more food shortages during the coming winter.
Fear of famine
One villager in Kani township said that some villages lying west of the Chindwin River will face famine in the next one to two months.
“We are facing different difficulties at all levels,” he said.
“People from the western part of the Chindwin River are coming to the eastern villages to ask for food. Most of them are day laborers and bamboo traders, and in the next one or two months they will find it very hard to survive.”
“Some people have had to carry their elderly relatives on their backs because the military were setting fire to the villages. How can you not hate them?” he asked. “The only reason people are suffering like this is because they are helpless.”
“If I could, I would give my life to end all their suffering,” he said.
At the end of July, villagers found the body of a man hanging from a tree in a forest outside of Kani town center, and that a closer investigation revealed four graves containing the remains of at least 10 people.
On July 11 and 12, residents of Kani township found the hog-tied and severely beaten bodies of at least 15 people scattered in the jungle, days after a government military unit left the area.
On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government, claiming voter fraud had led to a landslide victory for Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD party in the country’s November 2020 election.
The junta has yet to provide evidence of its claims and has violently suppressed nationwide demonstrations calling for a return to civilian rule.
According to the Bangkok-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, at least 966 civilians were killed by police and soldiers between Feb. 1 and Aug. 12..."
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"RFA" (USA)
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2021-08-12
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"As of 11 August, (965) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
In relation to the terrorist junta’s raid of the apartment on 44th street in Botahtaung Township, Yangon, some media outlets have said five people died, others that six died. It is without doubt there were deaths, but we are continuing to inquire and confirm the exact figure and identities.
As of August 11, a total of (5550) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Terrorist junta’s troops entered Htauk Kyant village in Sagaing Region’s Kalay Township on the afternoon of August 10 and arrested the father-in-law and mother-in-law of Maung Phyu when they did not find Maung Phyu living in that village.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
“Our uprising must succeed”..."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-11
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"As of 10 August, (965) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (3) fallen heroes today. (1) from Falam Township in Chin State was killed today and (2) from Myaing Township in Magway Region and Myanaung Township in Ayeyarwady Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 10, a total of (5534) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
60 year-old Pi Ngeih Tling was shot dead in the chest at home in an unprovoked shooting by the terrorist junta’s soldiers on the morning of August 10 at Falam Township in Chin State.
On the afternoon of August 9, three junta police wearing plainclothes entered Pike Thin village and opened fire because a protest leader San Ko from Pike Thin Village escaped from arrest when three junta police tried to arrest him at a COVID-19 checkpoint. Aung Zay Ya, a villager from Pike Thin village in Magway Region’s Myaing Township, was dragged into their car because he was holding a slingshot when he went out of the house to look. When junta police arrived near a pond at the top of the village, they told Aung Zay Ya to get out of the car and told him to run towards the pond. While Aung Zay Ya was running, they shot him from his back. Aung Zay Ya died on the spot from this gunshot injury, according to a local.
A family was informed that San Win from Tha Pyay Kone village in Ayeyarwady Region’s Myanaung Township, who was arrested by Tha Pyay Kone Village Police Station in the morning of August 7 for questioning, died at the hospital at 2 pm that day due to severe injuries. It is reported there were beatings all over his body consistent with torture. Win Tun and Aung Myint Oo from Tha Pyay Kone village were arrested with him and were released the same day. On the morning of August 9, local police Kyaw Kyaw Maung and a person wearing plain clothes came to his family to settle the case for 3 million kyats. It is reported that his family members will not accept this negotiation.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
“Our uprising must succeed”..."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-10
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"As of 9 August, (962) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. (1) from Myingyan Township in Mandalay region died today and (1) from Mandalay died yesterday. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 9, a total of (5526) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Doctor Maung Maung Nyein Tun, lecturer of surgery of University of Medicine of Mandalay, who is involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), was arrested on June 13 and sued three counts of charges, died on August 8 at Mandalay General Hospital due to COVID-19. It is reported that he was contracted COVID-19 while detained in the Interrogation Center of Mandalay Nandwin. At first, it is heard that the terrorist junta did not transfer him to the hospital and detained him at the No.9 police station for two weeks. He was transferred to the Mandalay General Hospital when his condition was worse as he did not receive sufficient medical treatment in the cell.
Maung Htay from Kywe Chan Village in Myingyan Township in Mandalay Region, who was arrested on July 10 allegedly because he kept youth protesters and charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, died in Myingyan Prison on August 9. According to a friend of his family member, although the Prisons Department said Maung Htay died due to atherosclerosis and hypertension, his body was covered and only allowed to look at the face.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
“Our uprising must succeed”..."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-09
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"Today, August 9, we celebrate the indigenous people of the world who are the protectors of their land and natural environment. In many parts of Myanmar, different groups of indigenous people possess unique practices, traditions and culture. Unfortunately, indigenous groups in Myanmar face many challenges that threaten their enjoyment of their rights and identity. Decades of conflict have brought suffering on ethnic groups like the Chin, Rohingya, Shan and Karen. At the same time, Myanmar’s ethnic people have also faced other violations of their rights including threats to their distinct cultures, languages, and identities; as well as development projects by the Tatmadaw leading to land confiscations, forced displacement, and negative environmental and social impacts.
On June 11, 2021, KHRG and Karen Rivers Watch released a joint statement condemning the State Administration Council’s (SAC) announcement to push ahead with the construction of the Hatgyi hydropower mega-dam on the Salween River. KHRG reiterates that the construction of the Hatgyi dam will be severely detrimental to the ecosystems in the area, as well as to people’s livelihoods, wellbeing, and cultural identity. Further, construction of the Hatgyi dam will exacerbate the dire humanitarian crisis in Southeast Myanmar caused by the ongoing SAC military offensives.
Since the February 2021 coup, hostilities between the SAC and ethnic armed organizations have intensified across the country. In Southeast Myanmar alone, the SAC has indiscriminately bombed and shelled villages which has killed, injured, and forcibly displaced thousands of villagers. Villagers who have been forced to flee into the jungles and caves, or across the Salween River into Thailand are in desperate need of basic supplies such as food, water, shelter, and medicines. Many villagers are also afraid to return to their lands as they fear the SAC’s indiscriminate airstrikes and ground artillery attacks.
In addition to the suffering faced by indigenous people as a result of intensified conflicts in ethnic lands, the COVID-19 pandemic also adds to the suffering of the ethnic people in Myanmar. In rural areas of Southeast Myanmar alone, where healthcare services are extremely limited, many villagers have no choice but to turn to home-based care. Rather than allowing patients access to life-saving medical care through non-SAC channels such as ethnic healthcare providers, in early July the SAC prohibited the sale of medical oxygen to private clinics and individuals throughout the country. At the same time, the SAC is actively undermining the Karen National Union’s COVID-19 response policies in Karen State. Recently, the SAC has destroyed the KNU’s COVID-19 screening checkpoints and disapproved of KNU travel restrictions in Karen State because of the potential impact on the movement of SAC soldiers in the region. The SAC’s weaponization of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to many avoidable deaths.
As the COVID-19 pandemic and the SAC’s military coup have introduced new challenges to Myanmar’s indigenous people, KHRG would like to call upon the international community to not only support the country’s ethnic groups in defence of their rights, but also to celebrate their resilience in the face of adversity and persecution..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-09
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"As of 7 August, (960) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (12) fallen heroes today. These (12) fallen heroes from Kani Township in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 7, a total of (5512) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Khun Nyein Chan, Khun Bay and Khun Phoe O, living in Kayan Tharyar Village in Kayah State’ Loikaw Township, were arrested by the terrorist military at the Kayan Tharyar checkpoint in Loikaw on August 6. They were arrested on suspicion of an alleged connection to the PDF after inspecting their phones.
Wai Yan Tun a.k.a Myo Myo, a dance teacher, who was arrested on June 24 for allegedly being a protest leader in Mohnyin Town, Kachin State, was charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code on July 31.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
“Our uprising must succeed”...."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-07
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"As of 6 August, (948) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 6, a total of (5502) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Peter Aung, Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Hpei Hkon Township, Shan State and also NLD member Maung Lwat, Zin Thaw Hein, Sai Lu, Maung Thet, were arrested by the junta at a checkpoint in Shan State’s Nant Hsan Township on July 30.
Nan Sandar Win and Nan Hsu Paing Phue, 4 th year students of Mawlamyine University, living in Sin village in Mon State’s Paung Township, were arrested by the terrorist junta on August 3, and charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code then sent to Mon State’s Kyeikmaraw Prison on August 4.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
“Our uprising must succeed”..."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-06
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YANGON – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that its lifesaving operations in Myanmar are being held back by a major funding shortfall, with over 70 percent of its funding needs over the coming six months still unmet.
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"A massive wave of COVID-19 infections currently surging throughout the country is compounding hunger, as families struggle amid job losses, rising food and fuel prices, political unrest, violence and displacement.
In April, WFP estimated that the number of people facing hunger could more than double to 6.2 million in the next six months, up from 2.8 million prior to February. Subsequent monitoring surveys carried out by WFP have shown that since February, more and more families are being pushed to the edge, struggling to put even the most basic food on the table.
“We have seen hunger spreading further and deeper in Myanmar. Nearly 90 percent of households living in slum-like settlements around Yangon say they have to borrow money to buy food; incomes have been badly affected for many,” said WFP Myanmar Country Director Stephen Anderson.
Starting in May, WFP launched a new urban food response, targeting 2 million people in Yangon and Mandalay, Myanmar’s two biggest cities. The majority of people to receive assistance are mothers, children, people with disabilities and the elderly. To date, 650,000 people have been assisted in urban areas.
More than 220,000 people have fled violence since February, and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. WFP has reached 17,500 newly-displaced people and is working to assist more in August. In total, 1.25 million people in Myanmar have received WFP food, cash and nutrition assistance in 2021 across urban and rural areas.
However, with US$86 million more required over the next six months, it is uncertain how far these operations can go.
“The people of Myanmar are facing their most difficult moment in living memory. It is critically important for us to be able to access to all those in need and receive the funding to provide them with humanitarian assistance,” Anderson explained.
“Now more than ever, the people of Myanmar need our support. We are deeply grateful for the backing of the international community – the people of Myanmar will never forget your generosity and solidarity.,” said Anderson..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (Rome)
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-06
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"As of 5 August, (948) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Ye Township in Mon State and Minkin Township in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 5, a total of (5497) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Pyay Thein, who was arrested while protesting in Ye Township, Mon State on March 22 and charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code and detained at Kyeikmaraw Prison, died on August 4 in prison. Even though police said he died from diabetes, Pyay Thein had never suffered from diabetes according to his family’s friend. Myo Chit, a member of Minkin PDF of Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township, who was trapped and arrested along with over 50 members of Minkin PDF on July 28 at Taung Phyu Village in Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township, was killed on August 3 in an interrogation center in Kalay Town.
Thet Htar Hnaung, MP for Kachin State Hluttaw of No (1) Constituency of Mohnyin Township, Kachin State and also NLD member, was arrested and beaten around 2am of August 4 by junta soldiers and those wearing plain clothes. Approximately six people were arrested along with her at the home.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
“Our uprising must succeed”..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-08-05
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"Renewed Rakhine-Rohingya Tensions?: On 29 July 2021, the Rohingya Post first reported that hundreds of Arakan Army troops
and Buddhist Rakhine had sealed off a Rohingya village in Minbya Township, since 24
July 2021. The village was running out of essential supplies and villagers were being
tortured in the local mosques.
Burma Campaign UK reported that the Arakan Army had occupied and laid siege to Let
Ma (also known as Lumbashor by the Rohingya) Village, Minbya Township, Rakhine
State, but had withdrawn in the afternoon of 2 August taking two villagers with them.
Burma Campaign UK called on the Arakan Army to immediately release the two villagers
and to commit to ending all abductions and hostage taking of civilians. Burma Campaign
UK also reported that the Arakan Army had forced villagers to sign documents and be
filmed stating that no human rights violations had taken place.
The Development Media Group, a Rakhine news agency promoted for its professionalism
and unbiased news, denied the report claiming that it is propaganda against the Arakan
Army and its growing influence on the people of Arakan/ Rakhine State.....What Happened and Why?: Letma or Lumbashor is a big village with quite a large population. The villagers are well
known for being very united and strong in protecting themselves from the excesses of
successive authorities, even during the Japanese occupation. There is no Tatmadaw
base near the village but there are some AA bases which means the area is likely
‘administered’ by the civilian arm of the AA – United League of Arakan.
According to local sources, on 21 July before Eid ul Adha, the festival commemorating
Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, AA troops demanded that every household
making kurbaan (animal sacrifices) in the village pay Kyat 15,000 and provide 3 kilograms
of meat (beef or mutton). Some villagers did not comply. Therefore on 24 July, AA troops
arrived at Letma from three directions. Rakhine villagers from surrounding villages then
surrounded the village. The family and relatives of 12 villagers who refused to pay were
detained and kept imprisoned in a mosque without food for three days. During the
occupation, AA soldiers apparently made the villagers cook and provide meals for them.
Soldiers were reportedly also stealing cattle and goats owned by the Rohingya villagers.
According to Burma Campaign UK, the AA troops were commanded by Lt. Colonel Zaw
Min Htun and Major Khaing Kyaw.
The AA denies the allegations and claims that they were trying to capture bandits, who
are engaged in smuggling cattle. It is true that cattle smugglers are active in the area but
Twan Mrat Naing, Commander-in-Chief of the AA, posted an apparent threat to
Rohingyas on his Twitter account today, stating: “We promote ethnic diversity and
religious tolerance but can’t afford to provide safe haven and breeding ground for the
terrorists and criminal gangs. Be aware that you are just about to turn your best friend
into (an) enemy by using your best tool of disinformation.”
Given the rapid expansion of the AA and its ‘administrative’ areas due to the absence of
local authorities following the 1 February coup, it is possible that as one observer noted,
“Twan Mrat Naing, sometimes may not know what is really happening on the ground.
Some of his commanders may have been misbehaving and intentionally wrongly
reporting to him. It is likely that they did something that was not right. But even if Rakhines
do not like what has been happening on the ground, nobody (especially Rakhine) dares
or wants to criticise the AA openly even on social media.”
If this is true, the AA leadership will need to redouble its efforts and make a
sincere attempt to improve. Compared to fighting, governance is difficult and good
governance is even more difficult. The culture of impunity so prevalent in the Tatmadaw
must not be allowed to grow in the AA and ULA. Twan Mrat Naing is a good leader and
he needs to face problems head-on. The goodwill of the Rakhine and Rohingya people
as well as that of the Myanmar and international communities must not be squandered..."
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"As of 4 August, (946) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 4, a total of (5495) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1984 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Khin Mar Lin, a chair of Myittar Lay Nyin Social Association of Nan Mar Town in Kachin State’s Mohnyin Township, was arrested at 1am on August 4 by the terrorist junta. Other people were arrested along with her. In addition to this, Min Min Tun, a political activist from Pyay Town and NLD member of Pyay Township in Bago Region, was arrested on the morning of August 3 by the terrorist junta when his father’s funeral ceremony was being held.
Nan Sandar Win and Nan Su Paing Phue, 4th year students of Mawlamyine University, living in Sin Village in Mon State’s Paung Township, were arrested at their homes by the terrorist junta in the evening of August 3. Moreover, Thinzar Tun, third year student of University of Nursing, living in King Ma Village in Magway Region’s Pauk Township, was arrested on the way from King Ma Village to Kan Ma Village on August 2. Three youths from King Ma Village were also arrested with Thinzar Tun.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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2021-08-04
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"Updated 3 August 2021:
As of 3 August, (946) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Myingyan Township in Mandalay Region was killed on a previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of August 3, a total of (5478) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1964 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Moe Zaw, who was arrested with four other villagers from Sone Ywar Kone Village in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township on July 6, died on July 31 at Myingyan Hospital and found with injuries consistent with torture from interrogation. Injuries on his dead body included knife cuts, cigarette burns on his back and his ribs and abdomen were bruised with gunstock.
Policeman Phyo Zaw Hein from Yesagyo Town in Magway Region, who is involved in Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), was assaulted and arrested on August 1 by police wearing plain clothes. In addition to this, three youths named Soe Thura Moe, Aung Myo Chit and Zaw Khet, who were involved in the Motorbike Strike Column in Pyinmana, Nay Pyi Taw, were arrested at their homes on the night of August 1. Moreover, Aung Sein, Pyithu Hluttaw MP from Dawei Township in Tanintharyi Region, was arrested at his home in Dawei on the night of July 30.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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2021-08-03
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Soldiers burned down two houses and destroyed several others with the help of thugs from the military-backed Pyu Saw Htee group
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"Over 1,000 people have fled a village in Magway Region’s Pauk Township after junta forces burnt down two homes there and raided or destroyed several others on Saturday when the administrator of a neighbouring village was killed, anti-regime guerilla fighters have said.
Members of the military-controlled Pyu Saw Htee group helped soldiers torch the houses in Wun Chone during a rampage through the village, a spokesperson for the guerilla group told Myanmar Now.
“They rampaged through the village and destroyed many shops as well as motorbikes,” he said, referring to testimony from five witnesses. “Many villagers have already fled, fearing they might come back.” Some fled to nearby woodlands while others sought refuge in surrounding villages.
There is a group of soldiers stationed at Pin Taung village, which sits two miles northeast of Wun Chone. The military arrived in Wun Chone immediately after the administrator of Pin Taung was assassinated at around 7am.
The soldiers clashed with guerilla fighters near Wun Chone before beginning their rampage. The guerillas’ spokesperson said none of the group’s fighters were killed in the clash and could not confirm if any of the junta’s forces were killed.
He added that the group’s fighters shot and killed Hti Myo, the 30-year-old administrator, because he supported the junta, and had ordered villagers in Pin Taung not to offer assistance to residents of Kinma village when it was burnt down by the junta’s forces in June.
Myanmar Now was unable to corroborate the allegations about the administrator.
A Wun Chone resident said soldiers also destroyed furniture during their rampage: “I went back to check last night. The fires burned the affected houses’ upper floors and sides. The lower floors were intact since they’re made of brick. I took what I needed and came back because there was a risk of running into Pyu Saw Htee there.”
Junta representatives could not be reached for comment.
Last week soldiers raided Thar Aye village in neighbouring Sagaing Region, displacing around 3,000 villagers, after an alleged military informant was shot and killed on July 28.
Around 10,000 civilians have been displaced by military attacks in the Sagaing townships of Kani, Yinmabin and Depayin since early July, according to local estimates..."
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2021-08-02
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6 Months After Takeover, Urgent Need for Targeted Sanctions, Arms Ban
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"Myanmar’s military junta has committed numerous abuses against the population that amount to crimes against humanity in the six months since the February 1, 2021 coup, Human Rights Watch said today.
Since the military takeover, millions of people have taken to the streets across the country and peacefully protested for a return to a democratically elected civilian government. As part of a widespread and systematic attack on the population, security forces have repeatedly fired on and otherwise used excessive force to disperse and harm protesters. Police and soldiers have killed over 900 protesters and bystanders, including about 75 children, forcibly disappeared over 100 persons, and tortured and raped an unknown number in custody. Several thousand people have been arbitrarily arrested and detained.
“Myanmar’s junta has responded to massive popular opposition to the coup with killings, torture, and arbitrary detention of people who merely want last year’s election results to be respected and a government that reflects the popular will,” said Brad Adams, Asia director. “These attacks on the population amount to crimes against humanity for which those responsible should be brought to account.”
The concept of crimes against humanity dates to at least 1915 and was part of the 1945 Charter of the International Military Tribunal that created the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders. Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), crimes against humanity are a series of offenses that are knowingly committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population.
The offenses of Myanmar’s junta against those opposed to the military coup have been both a widespread and systematic attack against the population, Human Rights Watch said. The nature of the response, broad-based and frequently consistent, reflects government policy rather than the actions of individual security personnel.
Apparent crimes against humanity committed since February 1 include murder, enforced disappearance, torture, rape and other sexual violence, severe deprivation of liberty, and other inhumane acts causing great suffering. Human Rights Watch previously found that Myanmar’s military had committed crimes against humanity against the ethnic Rohingya population in 2012-2013 and again in 2017 as part of campaigns of ethnic cleansing. The authorities are committing crimes against humanity of apartheid, persecution, and severe deprivation of liberty against Rohingya currently living in Rakhine State. The UN-backed Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) is “closely following” events and is collecting evidence of possible crimes committed following the coup. The IIMM is also mandated to build case files to support efforts to hold individuals responsible for such crimes in criminal proceedings.
The United Nations, regional bodies, and governments, including the European Union, United States, and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), should respond to the continuing crimes against humanity in Myanmar by supplementing, strengthening, and coordinating international sanctions against the military and the State Administration Council (SAC) junta leadership under Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. Actions should include targeted sanctions on individuals, a global arms embargo, and financial restrictions that would reduce the junta’s revenues from extractive industries.
Governments should act to reduce the junta’s gas revenues, which are the military’s largest source of foreign currency income, adding up to about US$1 billion annually in duties, taxes, royalties, fees, tariffs, and other profits. The US, EU, UK, and others should block payments to the junta and state-owned enterprises from foreign-financed oil and gas projects, such as those operated by PTT, Total, and Chevron. Such measures can be designed to target the junta’s access to foreign accounts while allowing for the continued production of gas and electricity in the country.
Since the coup, concerns about vetoes by China and Russia have deterred the United Nations Security Council from adopting resolutions to address the human rights crisis in Myanmar. The Security Council should urgently take measures against the junta, including by referring the situation in the country to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Human Rights Watch said. The court’s prosecutor is currently investigating the crimes against humanity of deportation and persecution following the 2017 ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, as those crimes were completed in Bangladesh, an ICC member. The council should follow the June resolution of the UN General Assembly with its own resolution to impose a legally binding arms embargo and targeted sanctions on junta officials and key military leaders.
The Security Council and UN member countries should end the pretense that ASEAN will place sufficient pressure on the junta to restore a democratically elected civilian government, release political prisoners, and hold those responsible for abuses to account, Human Rights Watch said. Since its summit meeting on April 24, ASEAN has failed to appoint a promised special envoy and has taken no meaningful steps to press the junta to address grave human rights concerns in Myanmar.
“The international response to the Myanmar junta’s crimes against humanity has been stymied by fears of Security Council vetoes, ASEAN’s feckless leadership, and the EU’s hesitance to target foreign gas companies,” Adams said. “The Security Council and influential countries, notably the US, EU, Australia, Japan, India, and Thailand, should apply coordinated sanctions to pressure the junta to end its brutal repression.”
Alleged Crimes Against Humanity Since the February 1 Coup
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines crimes against humanity as one of several offenses “committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack.” “Widespread” refers to the scale of the acts or number of victims. A “systematic” attack indicates a pattern or methodical plan. Crimes against humanity can be committed during peacetime as well as during armed conflict.
The statute defines “attack” as a “course of action involving the multiple commission of acts … pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy.” The “attack” does not need to be a military attack as defined under international humanitarian law. Furthermore, “the term ‘population’ does not require that crimes against humanity be directed against the entire population of a geographical territory or area.”
The ICC statute’s Explanatory Memorandum states that crimes against humanity “are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings. They are not isolated or sporadic events but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority.”
Myanmar is not a party to the ICC, but the UN Security Council could refer the situation in the country to the ICC.
The Myanmar military’s killing of numerous protesters, enforced disappearance of opposition supporters taken into custody, torture and rape of many of those detained, and mass political detentions throughout Myanmar since the coup indicate that these abuses are widespread.
The authorities have made statements that suggest that the response to the protests has also been systematic. On February 21, the State Administration Council stated in the government’s Global New Light of Myanmar: “Protesters are now inciting the people, especially emotional teenagers and youth, to a confrontation path where they will suffer the loss of life.”
On March 26, the state MRTV news channel announced that demonstrators “should learn from the tragedy of earlier ugly deaths that you can be in danger of getting shot to the head and back” and warned that “parents should also talk their children out of it [joining protests], let’s not waste lives for nothing.” This language was widely interpreted to signal that the security forces were planning to respond with force to planned protests the next day, Armed Forces Day.
In a May 8 statement, the junta formally designated the opposition National Unity Government (NUG), its parliamentary committee, and their offshoot militias as “terrorist groups” for alleged acts of incitement against the junta, seemingly to justify a broad suppression campaign. The junta said that the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) – composed of members of the majority party from the 2020 elections of the national parliament – and the NUG “constantly incited Civil Disobedience Movement participants to commit violent acts.”
The following alleged crimes against humanity should be independently and impartially investigated:
Murder
Since the February 1 coup, the State Administration Council junta has responded to massive protests with excessive and lethal force. The police and military have killed over 900 people, most of whom were protesters and bystanders in many cities and towns across Myanmar, including Yangon (Hlaing Thayar, North Okkapala, and other townships), Mandalay, Bago, Monywa, and other townships in Sagaing region, Mindat township in Chin state, and other locations. International human rights standards permit law enforcement officials to use lethal force only as a last resort when there is an imminent threat to life. But in numerous cases reported in the media, and by the UN, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights organizations, the security forces fired on demonstrators who were unarmed and posed no apparent threat.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on April 13 denounced “yet another weekend of coordinated bloodshed in many parts of the country.” She said that “[t]he military seems intent on intensifying its pitiless policy of violence against the people of Myanmar, using military-grade and indiscriminate weaponry.”
The UN Human Rights Committee, in its General Comment No. 37 on the right of peaceful assembly, has stated that “[f]irearms are not an appropriate tool for the policing of assemblies, and must never be used simply to disperse an assembly.… [A]ny use of firearms by law enforcement officials in the context of assemblies must be limited to targeted individuals in circumstances in which it is strictly necessary to confront an imminent threat of death or serious injury.”
The crime against humanity of murder has been defined by ad hoc international tribunals as “the death of the victim which results from an act or omission by the accused, committed with the intent either to kill or to cause serious bodily harm with the reasonable knowledge that it would likely lead to death.”
There have been a number of reports of large-scale shooting of protesters by the security forces. The UN reported that security forces killed 18 people on February 28. On March 3, security forces across the country fired live rounds at protesters, killing at least 38 and wounding more than 100, the UN reported. Killings were also reported in one day in Monywa, Sagaing region; Myingyan and Mandalay, Mandalay region; Salin, Magway region; and Mawlamyine, Mon state, according to media reports and local analysts.
Human Rights Watch investigated incidents in which security personnel appeared to deliberately kill individuals. On March 3 in Yangon, at least 10 security force personnel were captured on video pushing a man ahead of a group of detainees and then fatally shooting him in the back at close range.
Medical doctors told Human Rights Watch that security forces prevented them from reaching wounded protesters, some of whom died from blood loss. Doctors working in mobile clinics during protests said security forces used live rounds interspersed with rubber bullets and that many of the fatal injuries were from bullet wounds to the upper body.
On March 13, the authorities killed at least nine protesters, including five in the Sein Pan area of Mandalay, when security forces reportedly shot into a crowd. On March 14 in Hlaing Thayar township, Yangon, security forces killed an estimated 58 people.
On March 17, police pursuing protesters forced their way into Sandar Linn Shein’s family home in Bayintnaung, Mayangone township. She said they accused the family of sheltering protesters and began shooting indiscriminately, killing her older sister instantly and wounding her older brother in the chest and then arresting him.
On March 27, Armed Forces Day, the day after the MRTV news channel announced that demonstrators “should learn from the tragedy of earlier ugly deaths that you can be in danger of getting shot to the head and back,” security forces carried out violent crackdowns on protesters in at least 40 towns and cities, killing dozens, Fortify Rights reported: “Eyewitness photographs and videos filmed [on March 27] show dead bodies, including children, and soldiers firing weapons street-level, dragging lifeless victims away, and brutally beating people.”
In one case, security forces shot and wounded Aye Ko during a night raid in Mandalay. Local media reported that security forces dragged him away and then set him on fire. Residents said soldiers threatened to shoot anyone who tried to help him. In a another widely publicized incident on March 27, a video shows soldiers shooting and killing Kyaw Min Latt at close range as he drove by them on a motorcycle.
On April 9, military personnel killed an estimated 82 people in Bago in a dawn assault on protesters’ barricades and encampments, according to media reports.
On May 26, the Associated Press, in conjunction with the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, published an extensive and detailed report documenting killings. The AP and Human Rights Center alleged that the junta was using the killings, including by dragging bodies through the streets and returning mutilated corpses to families, to terrorize the population into ending the protests. They identified more than 130 instances in which “security forces appeared to be using corpses and the bodies of the wounded to create anxiety, uncertainty, and strike fear in the civilian population.”
Enforced Disappearances
Since the coup, Myanmar authorities have taken into custody and forcibly disappeared more than 100 politicians, election officials, journalists, activists, and protesters, and refused to confirm their location in violation of international law.
Enforced disappearances are defined in the ICC statute as the arrest or detention of someone by the state or their agents followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of the person, with the intention of “removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time.”
Family members and friends of arrested anti-junta protesters told Human Rights Watch that not knowing where the person was being held heightened concerns about their safety and well-being.
In many cases, families only received information informally about the location of their family member, such as when newly released detainees notified others that they had seen another person who had been detained. Some families believe that because a prison accepts a package for their family member, it is most likely the place where their relative is being held. However, there is no factual basis for this conclusion, and it does not relieve the authorities of their obligation to provide information on a detainee’s whereabouts, produce a detainee in court within 48 hours as provided by Myanmar law, and promptly allow access to counsel and family members.
Torture
Many of those detained for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations said after their release that that security personnel tortured and otherwise ill-treated them and others in custody. Methods of torture reported include beatings, mock executions with guns, burning with cigarettes, and rape and threatened rape. While torture by police in criminal cases has long been a problem in Myanmar, coup opponents taken into custody have been at risk of routine beatings, torture, and gender-based violence, indicating that the mistreatment has been part of junta efforts to suppress the political opposition.
One 19-year-old man told the media that on April 9 he was taken to a military compound on the outskirts of Bago after a deadly day of protests. He said the security forces used cables, the butts of guns, and bottles to beat him on his hands. “The commander tied my hands from the back and used small scissors to cut my ears, the tip of my nose, my neck and my throat,” he said. “[He] hit my head with a glass bottle, beat me up, pointed at me with guns but the bullets did not come out.”
Protesters in Myeik, Tanintharyi region, said after their release that on March 9, security force members beat about 70 protesters detained during demonstrations with belts, rifles butts, pipes, wooden sticks, and chains. On April 19, the junta created a public outcry when it aired on MRTV the images of six young detainees who bore marks of torture suffered while they were detained.
A 17-year-old boy told Human Rights Watch that he had been beaten for days while blindfolded, then forced into a pit and buried up to his neck in a mock burial. He said he and others arrested with him were denied food and water for four days and drank toilet water to survive.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said that since the coup, at least 22 people have been tortured to death during custody.
Human Rights Watch investigated the case of Khin Maung Latt, 58, a ward chairman in Pabedan township in downtown Yangon. On the evening of March 6, witnesses saw soldiers and police forcibly enter Khin Maung Latt’s home, beat and kick him in front of his family, and then take him away at gunpoint. The next morning, after notification by the authorities, Khin Maung Latt’s family recovered his body from a hospital. The body had severe wounds to the hands and back and was covered in a bloody shroud, a witness said.
Rape and Other Sexual Violence
The UN special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence, Pramila Patten, condemned alleged sexual violence by the Myanmar authorities. She called for an end to the abuses and for unimpeded access for an independent investigation. In a June 25 statement she said:
Night raids, arbitrary arrests, sieges of townships and neighborhoods, torture and deaths in detention, attacks on locations and sites where civilians are gathered or have fled, and reports of sexual violence in detention sites, particularly sexual assault, torture, physical and verbal abuse, and intimidation, have become an alarming feature of daily life.
Mary Lawlor, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, noted in a July 19 statement on Myanmar that “[w]omen human rights defenders are particularly at risk in remote rural areas and are often beaten and kicked before being sent to prison where they can face torture and sexual violence with no medical care provided.”
The opposition National Unity Government reported that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have been particularly vulnerable to sexual violence in custody. One transgender woman recounted after her release that she was raped in custody with an object, tortured, and severely beaten.
Human Rights Watch investigated the case of a woman whom the police arrested on April 17 and accused of involvement in a series of bomb attacks against security forces in Yangon. Local media reported that police in Yankin township severely beat the woman, including on her genitals, causing vaginal bleeding, during interrogation at the police station. They beat her again at an interrogation center in Shwe Pyi Thar township, making it difficult for her to eat or urinate. Her cellmate said she herself was molested, threatened with a gun, and slapped during interrogation at another police precinct in Sanchaung township.
On March 3 in Yangon, the authorities arrested two journalists, Han Thar Nyein and Nathan Maung, during a raid of their Kamayut Media office. Nathan Maung, who has been released, said the police beat them for days at an interrogation center and that Han Thar Nyein, who is now in Insein prison, was also burned with cigarettes and threatened with rape.
Imprisonment or Other Severe Deprivation of Liberty in Violation of International Law
On February 1, the military arrested State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, and several dozen other senior officials in early morning raids in the capital, Naypyidaw. They remain in detention.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) has reported that since the coup, security forces have arrested 6,990 people, of whom 5,442 remain detained. In some instances, security forces have arrested and detained family members and friends of activists, protesters, and opposition members as a form of collective punishment. The AAPP said that at least 119 people, including an infant, have been arrested during raids when security forces were unable to find the person they sought to arrest. At least 83 of them remain in detention and some family members have been sentenced to prison terms.
The junta has particularly targeted members of the media for arrest. Since February 1, the authorities have arrested 98 journalists, 46 of whom are currently in detention, according to the AAPP. Six journalists have been convicted, including five for violating section 505A of the penal code, a new provision that makes it a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison to publish or circulate comments that “cause fear” or spread vaguely defined “false news.”
Other Inhumane Acts Causing Great Suffering or Serious Injury
The junta has harassed, arbitrarily arrested, and attacked medical professionals, sometimes as they treated injured protesters. Many healthcare workers were early leaders of the opposition Civil Disobedience Movement and refused to work in government hospitals as a form of protest. Since the coup at least 260 healthcare workers have been attacked while trying to administer medical aid, and 18 killed. The AAPP said 76 remain in detention and up to 600 medical professionals have outstanding arrest warrants against them. Many have been forced to work underground in makeshift mobile clinics or have gone into hiding to evade arrest. The UN Country Team in Myanmar has said that the attacks on medical workers have jeopardized the Covid-19 response.
CCTV footage released online shows at least six police officers removing three workers from an ambulance of the Mon Myat Seik Htar (MMSH) volunteer rescue team, then beating the workers with their guns and batons and kicking them. The MMSH volunteers were subsequently arrested and released on March 24, Myanmar Now reported..."
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Release Journalists Wrongfully Detained, Sentenced
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" Myanmar’s military junta should stop prosecuting journalists and end its assault on independent media, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a video about the media crackdown.
Since the February 1, 2021 coup, Myanmar’s junta has arrested 98 journalists, 46 of whom are currently in detention, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). Six journalists have been convicted, including five for violating section 505A of the penal code, a new provision that makes it a crime to publish or circulate comments that “cause fear” or spread “false news.” “Fake news” appears to be any news that the authorities do not want to reach the public.
“Myanmar’s junta has made the mass arrest of journalists and control over the media a key component of its seizure of power from a democratically elected government,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director. “The junta’s intensifying surveillance, harassment and detention of journalists is rapidly turning Myanmar into one of the region’s most dangerous places to be a journalist.”
On June 30 the Ministry of Information issued a warning to journalists to stop describing the military-appointed State Administration Council as a “junta” or face prosecution. It also warned foreign news agencies to cease using the terms “military council” or “military junta,” and to stop “disseminating false news to global people.” The order threatened that “action will be taken against them under the existing laws if they apply wrong usages, quote and exaggerate fake news, and disseminate false information.”
Those sentenced under section 505A are:
Kaung Myat Hlaing, from Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), who was arrested at his home in Myeik, Tanintharyi Region, and sentenced to two years in prison.
Min Nyo, from DVB, who was arrested while reporting on a protest in Pyay Region, and sentenced to three years.
Thet Naing Win, from DVB, who was arrested in Bago Region and sentenced to three years.
Zaw Zaw, a freelance reporter who was arrested while covering demonstrations in Myeik, Tanintharyi Region and sentenced to two years.
Htoo San, a freelance photographer in Myeik, Tanintharyi Region, who was sentenced to three years.
Another DVB reporter, May Thwe Aung, was sentenced to one month in prison under penal code section 188 for disobeying a public servant. She had learned on March 16 that the authorities had arrested her husband, Min Min Aung, who is a reporter for The Voice Daily. When she arrived at the police station in Oakkan township in Yangon region to try to find him, the police detained her, ultimately leading to her being charged and prosecuted.
The crackdown on journalists is part of the junta’s larger effort to suppress independent media coverage of the situation in Myanmar, and to deny the serious rights violations the military is committing across the country, Human Rights Watch said. “If the situation becomes worse, then it becomes not a safe place for us and the only choice would be to leave the country,” one local reporter told Human Rights Watch.
On May 4 the authorities arrested the US journalist Danny Fenster, the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, at the Yangon International Airport as he prepared to leave the country. On June 18 the authorities charged Fenster under penal code section 505A in a closed hearing inside Insein prison. The basis for the charge against him is not clear.
On March 9 the police arrested the Kamayut Media founders Nathan Maung and Han Thar Nyein at their office in Kamayut township in Yangon. Nathan Maung, who has since been released and left the country, said both endured days of torture including routine beatings and sleep deprivation. Han Thar Nyein remains in detention. “Although I am free, my aim now is to make sure Han Thar and the others are also released,” he said. “They are journalists, not criminals.”
The many arrests and prosecutions of journalists have had a severe chilling effect on independent journalism in Myanmar. On March 8 the junta stripped media licenses of five local outlets: DVB, Khit Thit Media, Mizzima, Myanmar Now, and 7Day. On May 4, the authorities banned 2 other outlets, the Kachin-based 74 Media and the Shan-based Tachilek News Agency. They also banned satellite television on May 4, extending strict censorship restrictions. Mobile internet restrictions imposed on March 15 remain in place.
International human rights law prohibits arbitrary restrictions on the rights to freedom of speech and expression, including by detaining journalists and banning media outlets.
“The military’s sustained crackdown on independent media and the arrests of journalists, combined with tightening censorship, threatens to isolate Myanmar’s people with only junta propaganda,” Robertson said. “The junta should immediately and unconditionally drop all politically motivated charges against journalists, reinstate the licenses of banned media outlets, and revoke abusive laws used against members of the media.”..."
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"Updated 24 July 2021:
As of 24 July, (931) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 24, a total of (5360) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On July 17 in Magway Region’s Pwintbyu Township, Min Wai from Pay Taw Village, Soe Naing from Kywel Di Village, Tin Htay Aung from Thamin Chan Village and Myint Myint Htwe from Kan Pyae Village were arrested by many terrorist junta troops, due to informers alleging they were in possession of weapons. Myint Myint Htwe is pregnant and was arrested as a hostage when the junta did not find her husband Nyunt Win, in Kan Pyae Village.
On the night of July 23, Kyaw Moe, who has COVID-19, was arrested while he was banging pots against dictatorship in North Dagon Township, Yangon Region.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-07-24
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"Killing: The number of documented killings by SAC security forces has increased from 76 to 82 during the past two weeks, although the actual total death toll is higher as this does not count the number of decomposed bodies of unidentified civilians that have been found. The six recently killed were civilians who were accused of being informers.....Ongoing military aggression: On July 12, KNPP plus KNDF troops had four armed clashes with SAC troops from LIB 530 and Infantry Division 66, who were carrying out clearance operations and entered into a KNPP controlled area in northern Loikaw township. The four clashes were: 1) at 8 am northeast of Nan Kwe village; 2) at 12 pm near Thiree Dah Wan Kai village; 3) at 4:15 pm near Daw Tahay village; 4) at 6 pm near Daw Tahay and Payapyu villages. The SAC troops fired artillery in the vicinity of Loile Lay town and Tee Lon village tract but retreated from the area when 14 of their soldiers were killed. During their operation. the SAC troops killed local villagers’ livestock, including chickens and pigs, for food. As a result of the fighting, 20 villages with a population of around 8,000 have been displaced as IDPs.
On the same day, July 12, KNPLF, KNLP and Kayaw Ni troops found several unidentifed decomposed dead bodies in a ditch next to house No. 3-27 in San Pya 6-mile village of Demawso township where the SAC troops from Infantry Division 66 had been based for two months. The SAC troops had moved out during a troop rotation on July 10. The KNPLF troops helped to burn the dead bodies.
On July 16, at 2:45 pm, joint KNPP and KNDF troops had a 30-minute clash with about 50 SAC troops from Infantry Division 66 near Nan Peh village of Bawlake township, where the KNPP and KNDF have been operating. The number of SAC casualties is not known, but the SAC then brought in about 200 more troop reinforcements to continue their clearance operation. On July 18, SAC troops from Bawlake town launched artillery attacks into Nan Peh village tract in Bawlake township, and ground troops entered Nan Peh village and continued to patrol into Taw Kho village tract in Pruso township. As a result, around 2,629 villagers from 7 villages in Taw Kho village tract and Nan Peh village tract have fled their homes to
hide in the surrounding jungle. The SAC troops also entered Nan Peh village and broke windows and front doors of villagers’ houses Due to the ongoing offensives carried out by SAC, the KNDF has announced that they will cooperate with local ethnic armed organizations and fight against the SAC, meaning that the temporary cease-fire agreement has failed and there will be more fighting.....Covid situation in Karenni State: As in other areas of Burma, the third wave of the Covid 19 pandemic has also spread to Karenni State. From June 15 to July 17, there were 157 Covid cases, 3 of whom died. Most of the cases were Loikaw town residents. The fast spread of the disease has caused increased worry among the IDPs, who are already facing health problems and insufficient health care. Local communities have set up their own Covid 19 screening points at village entrances, but there is a shortage of experienced health personnel and equipment. The SAC’s mismanagement of the country and collapse of the health care system are fuelling fears that the pandemic will become much worse.....Situation of IDPs and humanitarian aid: Due to the rainy season, it is difficult for the IDPs to shelter from the rain. Some IDPs have plastic tarpaulins, but due to wear and tear, they need to use two tarpaulins instead of one to protect themselves from the rain. However, during heavy rain, even double tarpaulins are insufficient to keep dry. Some IDPs have nothing, no tarpaulins or even thin plastic sheets. Moreover, due to lack of clean water for drinking and cooking, and lack of nutritious food, the IDP children and pregnant women have been suffering from diarrhea and skin diseases, such as scabies. The lack of hygienic toilets is also causing diarrhea. As it is the rainy season, flu and malaria are becoming more prevalent too. There is an acute shortage of medicines to treat these diseases. In some sites, they only have paracetamol. Local civil society groups and church based groups under the Karenni IDPs Support Network (KISN)and Karenni Humanitarian Team (KHT) have been helping the IDPs to receive rice, cooking oil, salt, beans, noodles and other dried food. Mosquito nets, tarpaulins and school materials have also been distributed. However, the aid received has been inadequate to meet all the IDP needs. It is unclear whether international agencies such as Save the Children, UNHCR, Mercy Corps, NRC, ACF, MAG and IRC, who used to have a presence in Karenni State, are still operating there. They have not been seen giving assistance to the local Karenni people..."
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Karenni Civil Society Network
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2021-07-23
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"As of 23 July, (931) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 23, a total of (5358) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On July 17, four youths named Ye Myint, Htet Wai Min, photography enthusiast Kyaw Zin Win and another youth (name still unconfirmed), who all are from Lashio Town in Shan State, were arrested at their homes by junta police and soldiers for being accused of associating with the PDF.
In the evening of July 21, workshop owner Soe Aung who was filling oxygen at Myingyan Industrial Zone in Mandalay Region and his 26 years old son, two others from the workshop, and a person who arrived to fill oxygen were arrested by the terrorist junta wearing plain clothes with five private cars.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-07-23
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UNHCR is partnering with local communities and faith groups to help an estimated 200,000 people driven from their homes by fresh violence since February’s military takeover.
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"Armed conflict is sadly nothing new for 27-year-old Nway Nway Htay. An ethnic Rakhine woman originally from Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, she became familiar with the sounds of artillery and gunfire as the Myanmar Armed Forces, locally known as the Tatmadaw, battled ethnic armed groups in her native state. Security was something she constantly worried about.
“I may be used to the sound of gunshots, but the fear is always there,” she said. “Last year, I came back to Rakhine to give birth when fighting erupted near the hospital. The explosions made the process even more stressful.”
Following the birth of her son, Nway Nway Htay returned to Kachin State, a mountainous region wedged between India and China, where she had been living with her ethnic Kachin husband for two years. There, the couple worked the land along with a small group of villagers, growing oranges as cash crops in Injangyang Township to support themselves.
Nway Nway Htay’s move to a rural corner of Myanmar’s northernmost state in 2019 was made in the hopes of living a more peaceful life. While also embroiled in its own ethnic armed conflict, prospects for peace in Kachin State had been improving. Negotiations between the Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) were making headway. Major hostilities ceased in late 2018, while smaller-scale skirmishes had largely subsided by the end of 2020.
“I may be used to the sound of gunshots, but the fear is always there.”
That all changed in 2021. Following a military takeover on 1 February, Myanmar was plunged into a crisis that saw the spread and intensification of fighting in many areas. Violence resurfaced once again in Kachin State, including frequent heavy clashes and airstrikes.
Nway Nway Htay is one of an estimated 200,000 people across the country forced to flee their homes by the upsurge of armed conflict. One sunny day in mid-March, she was at home with her son when the sound of gunshots echoed between the hills. Having experienced similar incidents before in Rakhine State, Nway Nway Htay’s first instinct was to stay inside the safety of her home. Moments later, her husband burst through the door saying they had to leave. The fighting was getting closer.
By the time Nway Nway Htay stepped outside, the village had emptied and they were the last to leave. Her anxiety grew as they fled. “The Tatmadaw and KIA were constantly firing at each other and a soldier we encountered warned us of landmines in the area. Each step we took filled me with dread,” she recalled.
The family eventually reached the banks of the Malikha River where a boat transported them to a nearby safe zone. There, they hid with other villagers for five days before making their way by motorbike to the Kachin State capital, Myitkyina. With little more than what they could carry on their backs, the family called on a relative who took them in.
Seeking the assistance of relatives is often the preferred choice for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar, a country with a strong tradition of extended family support and community solidarity. Religious affiliation often also determines how assistance is sought. Buddhists prefer to approach Buddhist charities and shelter at monasteries while Christians often receive assistance from Christian organizations and seek refuge at church compounds.
Host families and communities therefore act as crucial first responders, offering material assistance such as shelter and food as well as psychological support in the form of emotional and spiritual security.
In Nway Nway Htay’s case, her husband’s religious affiliation as a Baptist led to the family seeking assistance from the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC). The ethnic Kachin are predominantly Christian and faith-based organizations like KBC play a prominent role in supporting IDPs within Kachin State. Many facilitate the day to day running of IDP camps and mobilize resources to support new arrivals.
“We have to find them so that no one is left behind.”
“These organizations spearhead humanitarian responses and our role is to reinforce their capacity, introduce best practices and complement their interventions,” explained Cliff Alvarico, UNHCR’s Head of Office in Myitkyina. Since 2012, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has been helping KBC and other faith-based organizations optimize resources to assist displaced populations and ensure a swift response.
“We also ensure that those who stay outside of IDP camps remain on our radar and receive the same level of assistance as those inside,” he added. “Wherever they are, we have to find them so that no one is left behind.”
The focus on assisting IDPs outside of camps is particularly pertinent in Kachin State. Many existing camps in urban centres face space constraints as they already host thousands of IDPs displaced up to a decade before the recent resurgence of armed conflict. New arrivals have therefore on occasion been asked to seek temporary accommodation elsewhere.
“Restarting will not be easy.”
Though hosted by a relative, Nway Nway Htay and her family are entitled to the same level of assistance as those living in camps. UNHCR ensures this by having them registered as members of a nearby IDP camp. A coalition of humanitarian agencies provide food and other support to the population on a regular basis. For its part, UNHCR distributes domestic items such as blankets, sleeping mats and mosquito nets to new arrivals as well as the rest of the registered population.
While relieved that her immediate material needs have been taken care of, Nway Nway Htay is worried about what lies ahead. Four months after their arrival in Myitkyina, the family has been unable to return to their village due to continued insecurity. Finances remain tight as they seek alternative means to make ends meet.
“My husband has left to work at a mine. It’s not a stable job and when fighting occurs nearby, he has to stop work and flee,” she said. “Restarting will not be easy. We’ve already lost one harvest and have to wait until the rainy season ends.”
Nway Nway Htay’s focus in the meantime remains on caring for her child. “My priority is my son. I want him to be strong and healthy before we return in case we ever have to run again.”..."
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva)
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2021-07-23
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The death toll in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single city since mid-March. It had a chilling effect on the pro-democracy movement.
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"Running through alleys or hiding in terror at home, they feared for their lives as friends were picked off one by one. Many were never heard from again.
It started in the early morning on April 9, as people in Myanmar woke up to graphic social media posts about military operations unfolding in the city of Bago, just 55 miles northeast of the country’s biggest city Yangon. But this was no normal operation.
As blasts and gunfire lit up the predawn darkness, heavily armed forces launched an unprecedented assault on pro-democracy protesters in the medium-sized city studded with pagodas.
After security forces arrested leader Aung San Suu Kyi and seized power in a Feb. 1 coup, Bago emerged as a flashpoint in the nationwide demonstrations sweeping Myanmar. Local civilian protesters set up barricades in the eastern part of the city, establishing a level of autonomy signaling resistance to junta rule.
But in just 24 hours in Bago, human rights groups and residents say soldiers hunted down and killed more than 80 people there, many of them young activists. The government downplayed the crackdown and blamed protesters for the violence, but witnesses tell a different story of nearly being killed and losing friends.
According to human rights monitor the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which keeps a running database of confirmed deaths and detentions, more than 900 protesters and bystanders have been killed by the military since February. The death toll in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single city since March 14. It had a chilling effect on the pro-democracy movement and forced many activists to flee into the borderlands of Myanmar to join guerrilla resistance groups.
It was just before sunrise, when troops encircled the “safe” zone established by protesters in the city, then stormed the encampment, using rifle grenades to destroy barricades on main cross streets and firing live rounds indiscriminately.
“Some of us who were taking cover behind that barricade lost their lives. But we couldn’t go to pick up their bodies,” said Myo Ko, a protest organizer who had spent the previous night with his friends guarding barricade number 7 on the city’s Magadit Road. “While the road and the streets were filled with smoke, they started shooting at any moving thing or shadows they saw with a machine gun.”
“Some of us who were taking cover behind that barricade lost their lives. But we couldn’t go to pick up their bodies.”
In a matter of minutes, protesters on Magadit Rd were trying to defend themselves with homemade airguns, slingshots and fireworks against encroaching troop movements. While Myo Ko took cover with friends, “Thiri” could see what was happening on the street from her home.
“We all heard the sound of shelling. We heard the noises continuously,” she said. “From the next streets we heard the machine guns. We heard the screams ‘run!’”
Her real name is not being used out of fear of reprisals from security forces, who have arrested more than 5,000 people since the coup, according to monitors.
With little effort, the army had taken over Magadit Road. Soldiers moved east to San Daw Twin Road to reinforce units attacking protesters there. That’s where another protest organizer going by the name of Kay was trapped.
“Some of my friends were killed and many others were also arrested,” Kay said.
In just over an hour, the last barricade on San Daw Twin Rd fell. The military had full control of the city. But the bloodshed was just beginning, as soldiers went door to door as people cowered in whatever safe place they could find.
“We felt like we could die anytime,” said Thiri, who hid in an old storage room for 24 hours. She remained in utter silence and did not open the door until the next morning.
“We felt like we could die anytime.”
Myo Ko survived by fleeing south through alleys and fields, but his cousin wasn’t so lucky.
“My cousin, he got shot in the leg and was hidden in a neighboring house. When the soldiers got into that house, he tried to run away and was shot from behind,” he said.
Residents reported seeing soldiers stack dozens of bodies at the Zeyar Muni pagoda near Magadit Road. They said the injured were slumped over the dead. By the next morning, most of the bodies had disappeared, according to residents, along with much of the evidence of the military’s massacre.
Only three bodies of victims were recovered by families in the days that followed the massacre, according to human rights organizations and sources on the ground.
The next day, residents picked up shells, bullet casings and other remnants of the bloody day that littered the streets of Bago. Used mostly in remote border areas to fight rebel insurgents, the rifle grenades stood out in the urban environment. The message to the people of Myanmar was chilling: if you rise up against the army, you will pay.
The junta disputes the allegations, claiming only one person was killed, even as AAPP has confirmed the deaths of 82 people. But the day marked a turning point in the protests. Months later, many protesters have given up on the idea of mass demonstrations and strikes, taking up arms with a People’s Defense Force as a last resort.
“We will keep on fighting any way possible,” Myo Ko said, from an undisclosed location. “The youths are gathering to fight, to end this military dictatorship.”..."
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"VICE" (New York)
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2021-07-22
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"Updated 22 July 2021:
As of 22 July, (931) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Minkin Township and Shwebo Township in Sagaing Region were killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 22, a total of (5333) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On July 21, terrorist junta’s troops raided Kun Seik Village in Sagaing Region’s Shwebo Township and shot dead local villager Thein Tint a.k.a Jit Leik, when he was running away in fear.
Khin Mar Yi a.k.a Phwar Cho, former chairman of Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township Development Committee, who was arrested and charged under Section 505(b) of the Penal Code since March for involvement in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and protesting, suffers from chronic diabetes. She died on July 21 in a Minkin detention cell due to diabetes and heart failure as she was not allowed to receive medical treatment at hospital while detained.
On the night of July 20, Mya Wunn Yan, chief editor of Than Lwin Thway Chinn News Agency based in Shan State’s Taunggyi City, and her two daughters, Nan Khin Hphone Thwe and Su Myat Noe, who are also reporters, were arrested at home in Taunggyi by the terrorist junta.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-07-22
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"Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) stands firmly for human rights and is concerned by the news of 25 men found killed in Waw Lay, Ka Nae Lay area, Kaw T’ree Township, Dooplaya District in June 2021. In interviews with The Irrawaddy and Karen Information Center (KIC), the Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) justified the killings, claiming that these men were spies working for the military junta, and adding: “we have had to do what we are supposed to do as we are fighting a war.”
KHRG strongly condemns this mass killing. Extrajudicial executions constitute “willful killings” and are thus in serious violation of the Geneva Conventions, specifically Common Article 3, which addresses non-international armed conflict, and which the KNU has formally committed to abiding by. Also, under the International Human Rights Law, the prohibition of the arbitrary deprivation of life, the right to humane treatment, and the right to a fair trial applies to everyone including those alleged to be spies.
KHRG welcomes the announcement by the Karen National Union (KNU) of a full investigation into this incident. Given KNDO is an armed wing of the KNU, KNU has a responsibility to conduct an impartial investigation. KHRG will watch for the results of the KNU’s investigation into this case and calls on the KNU to hold accountable those found to be responsible for this crime and to take appropriate judicial action against the perpetrators. KHRG is committed to the defense of human rights and the need to end impunity for violations, regardless of who the perpetrators may be. KHRG calls for accountability for all human rights violations and abuses committed by any actor during the present military coup and under past regimes..."
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Karen Human Rights Group
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2021-07-22
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"Updated 21 July 2021:
As of 21 July, (929) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (7) fallen heroes today. These (7) fallen heroes from Momauk Township in Kachin State, Htandabin Township in Bago Region and Kalay Township in Sagaing Region were killed the previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 21, a total of (5323) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On July 20, Su Su Htay, a 2nd-year university student Kaung Myat Naing, and an 8th-grade student May Htoo Naing. The wife, son and daughter of Kyaw Soe Naing, MP for Nganzun Township of Mandalay Region, were arrested at Shwe-Kyar-Inn Monastery in Myittha Township when the terrorist junta could not find Kyaw Soe Naing there. Moreover, San San Maw, who is involved in Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), and lived with the family, was also arrested. In addition to this, Chit Naing, a 1st-year distance education student majoring in Geography at Dawei University, was followed and arrested by the terrorist junta wearing plain clothes in Dawei City, Tanintharyi Region on July 20.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-07-21
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"Updated 20 July 2021:
As of 20 July, (922) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (3) fallen heroes today. These (3) fallen heroes from Sanchaung Township and Hlaing Tharyar Township in Yangon Region and Kyaukdaga Township in Bago Region were killed the previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 20, a total of (5315) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Nyan Win, NLD Secretary, who contracted COVID-19 while he was detained in Insein Prison, and only then transferred to Yangon General Hospital due to his severe condition because he did not receive adequate medical treatment in prison, died on July 20 in hospital. Likewise, Win Kyaing, NLD executive member of Western Hlaing Tharyar Township of Yangon Region, died on July 20 due to COVID-19 having been detained in Insein Prison.
Aye Hla, Vice Chairman of NLD of Kyaukdaga Township of Bago Region, died on July 19 at Daik-u (Kyaik Za Kaw) Prison due to injuries consistent with torture during interrogation. He was arrested on June 16 having been accused of providing training to PDFs and allegedly in possession of weapons, when the junta did not find his son Linn Linn Kyaw, MP for Kyaukdaga Township of Bago Region.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-20
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Over 5,000 residents from three villages in Shwebo Township, Sagaing Region, fled their homes after junta raids on Sunday.
Shootouts occurred outside Pa Lai village on Sunday evening when resistance fighters used homemade rifles against large numbers of advancing junta troops.
“They came with informants. At first, there was only a truck of them but more troops followed in smaller vehicles. We were outnumbered and they fired artillery at the village. All the villagers have fled into the forest,” said a Pa Lai villager.
Junta troops set a National League for Democracy ((NLD) supporter’s house in Pa Lai on fire. The two-story building, along with four silos and harvesters, was destroyed. The financial loss was estimated at more than 100 million kyats (US$61,000), said another resident.
About 16km from Shwebo, Pa Lai is a large village with a population of more than 3,000. Nearby villages Kantha and Gontan have a combined population of over 2,000.
“All the villagers fled. We can’t yet return because they are stationed at a monastery in the village. Some houses were damaged by shelling. I don’t know yet if anyone was injured,” said a resident.
Junta troops also reportedly ransacked the house of a former NLD chairman in Kantha village and detained three villagers. Personnel have also reportedly raided villages adjacent to Kantha and Gontha.
“We are still in the forest and having troubles. Some of us are elderly and children. They are raiding one village after another. I heard a woman was shot by a sniper. I don’t know if she died. Many of us ran as soon as they entered the village. All the villagers followed after they started firing artillery,” said a villager.
Four residents were killed in a shootout between a neighborhood watch group and junta troops in Seik Khun village on Saturday..."
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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-19
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"Updated 19 July 2021:
As of 19 July, (919) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (5) fallen heroes today. These (5) fallen heroes from Bago Township in Bago Region and Shwebo Township in Sagaing Region were killed the previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 19, a total of (5293) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
The family was informed that political activist Naing Linn Soe a.k.a. Ye Gyi from Bago Township in Bago Region, who was detained and interrogated by Infantry Division No.77 in Bago since June, was sent to hospital on July 17 due to COVID-19, and died on July 18. He was arrested after his wife was detained as a hostage on June 14, and forced to show his hiding place to the terrorist junta. On the night of July 17, junta troops raided Seik Khun village in Sagaing Region’s Shwebo Township and shot four youths to death unprovoked while they were guarding the village. These youths are Thet Soe, Htay Hlaing Win, Aung Paing Htwe and Aung Hein Kyaw.
Activist Tin Htut Paing and Aung Min Oo were arrested at an apartment in Yangon Region’s Hlaing Township by junta forces on the night of July 18. In addition to this, on the night of July 18, Lin Htin Soe, Mandalay Region’s Chairman of the Takhon Farmer Federation for Burma, living in Pyin Oo Lwin Township in Mandalay Region, was arrested at his home by the junta, the junta forces also confiscated some money and a car from his home.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-19
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Updated 17 July 2021:
As of 17 July, (914) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Sinbaungwe Township in Magwe Region and Minkin Township in Sagaing Region were killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when..
As of July 17, a total of (5281) people are currently under detention. (254) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
In the morning of July 16, Tin Ohn from Ayekayit village in Magwe Region’s Sinbaungwe Township, was shot over 15 times by the terrorist junta and died while he was working at sesame field when the junta did not find his son Yan Myo Aung, MP of No (1) Constituency of Sinbaungwe Township of Magwe Region, who was evading arrest because he did not sign to not support CRPH and NUG.
On July 16, the terrorist junta raided nearby villages including Inpinhla Village in Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township and shot Zwe Ko Ko from Inpinhla Village to death.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-17
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"HUMANITARIAN NEEDS COUNTRYWIDE: A total of 3 million people are targeted for humanitarian assistance and protection services across various parts of the country. This includes 1 million people in need in conflict-affected areas previously identified and a further 2 million people identified since 1 February.
The additional caseload of 2 million people includes families in urban and peri-urban townships in Yangon and Mandalay, which have seen dramatic increase in humanitarian needs, as well as people newly displaced in conflict-affected areas since 1 February.
An additional US$109 million is requested to address the new needs and complement the existing Humanitarian Response Plan, which seeks $276.5 million in funding.....DISPLACEMENT IN THE SOUTH-EAST: The security situation in southeastern Myanmar remains volatile, with sporadic clashes reported between the MAF and “People’s Defense Forces (PDF)” in Kayah and Mon states, marking an increase in hostilities in recent weeks.
UNHCR estimates around 170,100 people have been internally displaced in southeastern Myanmar due to violence, insecurity and clashes between the MAF, EAOs and “PDF” since 1 February.
This includes 121,400 people displaced in Kayah and neighboring townships in southern Shan since late May, a further 47,600 people displaced in Kayin with another 1,100 displaced in Mon states since 1 February.....DISPLACEMENT IN KACHIN AND SHAN: The security situation in Kachin and Shan states remains volatile, with clashes reported between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) or among the EAOs on a regular basis.
In Kachin, around 11,510 people have been internally displaced since the resurgence of hostilities between the MAF and the “Kachin Independence Army” in mid-March 2021. Over 7,800 of them remain displaced in eight townships.
Around 6,900 people were newly displaced due to various clashes in north and southern areas of Shan State over the course of June. In total, 22,156 people have been internally displaced across Shan State since the start of 2021; about 7,500 people remain displaced in six townships....DISPLACEMENT IN CHIN, CASUALTIES IN RAKHINE: The security situation remains volatile in Chin State with intermittent clashes between the MAF and “PDF” reported in several townships in Chin State, as well as in neighboring Pauk and Saw townships in Magway Region.
About 16,300 people are currently hosted in over 100 displacement sites in five townships in Chin State since May and in Saw Township in Magway and Kale Township in Sagaing regions since June. Meanwhile, almost 9,850 people, displaced by the MAF-Arakan Army conflict, remain in Paletwa Township, Chin State.
In Rakhine, two civilians in Ann Township sustained injuries from a landmine explosion on 10 July. According to UNICEF, 38 civilians have been killed or injured by landmines in Rakhine State in the first five months of 2021, which represents 37 per cent of the total casualties countrywide during this period..."
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Date of entry/update:
2021-07-16
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The deaths included 19 military troops, two militiamen, and two civilians, sources said.
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"At least 19 troops loyal to Myanmar’s junta and two members of a militia formed to protect residents from the military were killed during a firefight in Saigaing region’s war-torn Kalay township, sources said Friday, as fighting drove some 3,000 civilians to flee for safety in the nearby mountains.
Fighting broke out between the military and members of the Kalay People’s Defense Force (PDF) around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday as junta soldiers began a raid on the villages of Doe Nwe and Ashaysee, around 30 miles south of downtown Kalay, a member of the PDF told RFA’s Myanmar Service, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
“The battle went on for six hours … and only ended after 8:00 p.m.,” the source said in recounting the fighting that killed the 19 people.
“Additionally, two [civilian] men from Tin Thar [village] who were on their way to Doe Nwe village on a motorcycle were killed when soldiers fired at them. Myint Thein and Tun Naung actually were ordinary villagers and not our fighters,” the militiaman said.
After a relatively quiet night, fighting resumed early on Friday morning, the PDF member said.
“They have been firing at us with heavy weapons since about 5:00 a.m. We are also hitting them back with Tumee [traditional flintlock] rifles and handmade rockets. They have not been able to get out of the village since yesterday. Our PDF teams have surrounded the village and attacked them. There are only injuries on our side. No deaths. Hold on, a rocket is coming our way. I'll call you back in a moment. "
PDF members later told RFA that two of their group had been killed and claimed that the military was “using drones” to track down their fighters.
Residents of the area confirmed to RFA that they had heard the sound of “hundreds of shells” beginning at 5:00 a.m. on Friday and said more than 3,000 people from nine of the surrounding villages had fled into the mountains beginning the previous night, when junta troops began conducting surprise checks and arrests.
“They were checking the cellphones of anyone they encountered, so we decided to leave,” said one villager, who declined to be named.
“Along the way, we saw many people from other villages fleeing the area too. There are four villages near Ashaysee village. A lot of men are among those who fled.”
A resident of Doe Nwe village said the region is currently dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19 infections and that many of those who fled lack access to medicine.
A Tin Thar villager told RFA that nearly everyone from the surrounding area had left.
“We are worried [the military] might set fire to the houses,” the villager said.
“Only some elderly and some family members of COVID-19 patients are left behind. Everyone believes the army will launch an all-out offensive against us. I’m in the forest myself now.”
Attempts by RFA to contact junta Deputy Information Minister Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun about the fighting in Kalay went unanswered Friday.
There have been at least seven clashes between the PDF and the military in Kalay since the junta ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government on Feb. 1, the last of which was on June 27.
Junta troops remain stationed in the villages of Kyaukphu and Ashaysee and the Kalay PDF has warned residents to exercise caution.....Military murders: Myanmar’s military says its takeover was warranted because former State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in November 2020 general elections as the result of voter fraud. The junta has provided no evidence to back up its claims and violently responded to widespread protests, killing 912 people and arresting 5,277, according to the Bangkok-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).
Amid nationwide turmoil, the military has stepped up offensives in remote parts of the country of 54 million that have led to fierce battles with several local militias.
According to the United Nations and aid groups, conflict in Myanmar’s remote border regions has displaced an estimated 230,000 residents since the junta coup. They join more than 500,000 refugees from decades of conflict between the military and ethnic armies who were already counted as internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the end of 2020, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a Norwegian NGO.
Reports of the clashes in Kalay came as sources told RFA that at least 23 villagers in Sagaing’s neighboring Kani township have been murdered by the military in the past 16 days, including 16 villagers who were discovered with their hands bound behind their backs and appeared to have been shot from behind, execution-style.
A resident named Tittar told RDA that junta troops entered the villages of Yin and Kone Thar on July 9 and 10 so that they could surveil Kani township from afar.
“When they were about to enter the villages, they started firing with heavy weapons. Four houses in our village were destroyed by the shelling. One house was set on fire. All the villagers fled in fear into the jungle as the army arrived. Some took their elderly on carts, motorcycles and tractors, he said.
“The soldiers followed into the forests and hunted the refugees down. Those who were found were tied with ropes and some were cut down with machetes. We also found trails of some who were tied to ropes and dragged away. The bodies were no longer recognizable as they were all bruised and mutilated.”
Tittar said people were killed and left in the forest, still bound, while others were “tied to small tree trunks and dragged along” to their deaths.
“Some of the bodies were piled up. All of them were simple farmers. None of them were PDF members,” he said, adding that several were people who couldn’t leave their elderly parents.
There were those who couldn't leave behind their parents who couldn’t run. Some were people who were asked by their parents to stay with them. People who were murdered ranged from a 63-year-old to a 21-year-old ... Some were tied and dragged. All of their clothes had been torn off and some of them no longer had pants on.”
In addition to the killings, residents said, junta troops destroyed more than 60 motorbikes, and burned down food storage containers and crops.
Another villager named Moe Thee said the men were shot dead by soldiers from behind.
“They didn’t kill them immediately after the arrests, the victims were tortured and killed,” he said.
“It looks like these people had their hands tied behind them and told to run and then shot from behind, like in the movies. It was totally inhumane.”
Other deaths included four villagers killed on July 1 whose bodies were discovered “in close proximity, with their heads blown off,” a resident said.
“They must have been shot at close range. The tops of the heads were gone. Only the mouth remained,” the resident said. “We couldn’t collect the bodies and had to set them on fire.”
The military has yet to comment on the allegations.....Children at risk: Also on Friday, the United Nations’ Child Rights Committee (CRC) issued a statement noting that since the coup, about 75 children had been killed, while around another 1,000 were arbitrarily detained and countless others deprived of essential medical care and education. The group warned that children’s rights are facing an onslaught that “risks leaving an entire generation damaged,” the agency said.
“Children are exposed to indiscriminate violence, random shootings and arbitrary arrests every day. They have guns pointed at them and see the same happen to their parents and siblings,” said Mikiko Otani, chair of the CRC.
The CRC said it is “profoundly concerned” at the major disruption of essential medical care and school education in the entire country, as well as access to safe drinking water and food for children in rural areas.
According to UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, a million children in Myanmar are missing key vaccinations. More than 40,000 children are no longer getting treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
“As a result of the military coup and conflicts, children’s right to life, survival and development have been repeatedly violated,” said Otani.
“If this crisis continues, an entire generation of children is at risk of suffering profound physical, psychological, emotional, educational and economic consequences, depriving them of a healthy and productive future.”
The CRC called for immediate action to resolve Myanmar’s political crisis and called on the country’s leadership to safeguard and promote children’s rights to the utmost degree..."
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"RFA" (USA)
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2021-07-16
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"Updated 15 July 2021: As of 15 July, (912) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Pyi Gyi Dagun Township in Mandalay Region was killed on the previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 15, a total of (5269) people are currently under detention. (254) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Sithu, 16 years old, was shot dead as the terrorist junta opened fire into the crowd arguing among each other in Pyi Gyi Dagun Township, Mandalay Region on July 14.
Htwe Htwe Myint, NLD member of Aye Thar Yar Town in Shan State’s Taunggyi Township, was arrested at home under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code on July 12 by the terrorist junta for allegedly writing on Facebook criticizing the junta.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-15
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"As of 14 July, (911) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (5) fallen heroes today. These (5) fallen heroes from Seikphyu Township in Magwe Region, Minkin and Kani Townships in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 14, a total of (5257) people are currently under detention. (254) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On July 12, Lun Maung, a local palm farmer from Thayet Pin Village in Seikphyu Township in Magwe Region, was shot dead unprovoked by local junta police.
Locals from nearby villages including Zin Kalal village in Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township are fleeing the terrorist junta raids on villages. San Win from Zin Kalel Village, one of the villagers fleeing, was killed by the terrorist junta while he was returning to the village to bring rice on July 11. According to a local, his hands were placed behind his back and there were injuries on his face and heads from beatings consistent with torture. In addition to this, Myint Swe from Than Pauk Village in Minkin Township was killed by the terrorist junta on July 13.
On July 12, three teachers from Thar Ya Mae Village in Tanintharyi Region’s Myeik Township, who are involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), were arrested on the night of July 12 by the terrorist junta wearing plain clothes. These three teachers are primary school teacher Nyo Mar Lwin from Pa Htet Kyun Su High School, primary school teachers Zin Mar Lwin and Than Ei Ei Nyein from Sub Shwe Du Middle School. In addition to this, Naing Linn, a hundred households administrator from Thar Ya Mae Village, was arrested on the same night.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-14
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Updated 13 July 2021: As of 13 July, (906) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (4) fallen heroes today. These (4) fallen heroes from Sub-MyoThit Township in Tamu District in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 13, a total of (5239) people are currently under detention. (252) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Two teenagers were shot dead on spot, three arrested and one managed to escape when the terrorist junta opened fire on the six teenagers from Naungket village in Sub-MyoThit Township, Tamu District, Sagaing Region who were returning home from visiting a nearby village at 10pm on July 10. One of the three arrested teenagers was shot in the stomach and released on July 12. The two others were tortured to death in detention, it is not yet confirmed if they were the teenagers under-18. The four fallen teenagers were Ngam Chin Pso, 23 years old, Dou Kho Lel, 16 years old, Mang Gou, 17 years old, and Pao Gin Mang, 18 years old. The bodies were not returned to the families.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-13
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Updated 12 July 2021: As of 12 July, (902) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (3) fallen heroes today. These (3) fallen heroes from Chan Aye Tharzan Township in Mandalay Region, Kani Township in Sagaing Region and Thongwa Township in Yangon Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 12, a total of (5203) people are currently under detention. (249) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Hla Po, Yin Village in Sagaing Region’s Kani Township, who was arrested by the terrorist junta on July 8, died on July 9 due to torture in detention. According to locals, there were bruises from beatings on the whole body of Hla Po.
Khant Ko Ko Maung, a CDM policeman from the traffic police force in Chan Aye Tharzan Township in Mandalay Region, who was evading arrest in Kyi Kone village, Patheingyi Township, was shot dead from the back in the evening of July 10 when the terrorist junta opened fire while arresting him soon after a woman active in helping the CDM movement was detained.
Phoe Sal died due to with beatings consitent with torture on July 10 after his arrest by the junta on July 10 while he was searching for oxygen to help treat COVID-19 at Thongwa Township, Yangon Region.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-12
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Sub-title:
2020 IN REVIEW MYANMAR HUMANITARIAN FUND AT A GLANCE
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"2020 IN REVIEW
MYANMAR HUMANITARIAN FUND AT A GLANCE
HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT
Humanitarian situation in 2020
The humanitarian situation in Myanmar remained complex over the reporting period. By the end of 2020, the active conflict in Rakhine and parts of Chin states resulted in a cumulative displacement of over 97,000 people in 194 sites. Despite an absence of largescale clashes in Kachin State since mid-2018, close to 96,000 people remained in displacement sites set up after fighting broke out in 2011, of whom roughly 40,000 were in areas controlled by non-state armed actors. The volatile security situation in northern Shan also continued to drive small-scale short-term displacement, with over 8,700 people temporarily displaced over the course of the year. In parts of Kayin State and Bago Region in the southeast, military operations generated additional internal displacement from December, with latest reports indicating up to 5,300 people displaced due the clashes. According to the 2021 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), by the end of 2020, more than one million people in Myanmar were in need of some form of humanitarian aid, due to armed conflict, vulnerability to natural hazards, inter-communal tensions or other factors.
COVID-19 pandemic
The outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent control measures established by the Government created additional challenges in humanitarian settings across the country, and increased the humanitarian caseload, due to urgent humanitarian needs of returning migrants. The rapid increase in locally transmitted COVID-19 cases across the country from mid-August 2020 has further complicated an already challenging humanitarian situation, with Rakhine State emerging as a key epicenter, in addition to Yangon Region, which has seen the largest number of cases. The Government has also put in place strict measures on international and domestic travel and cumbersome processes to obtain visas and entry permits.
People in need
Some 336,000 displaced people (of whom 29 per cent are women, 20 per cent are girls and 21 per cent are boys) remain in camps or displacement sites in Kachin, northern Shan, Rakhine, southern Chin, eastern Bago and Kayin. In addition, an estimated 470,000 non-displaced stateless persons in Rakhine remain in need of various forms of humanitarian support due to significantly reduced access to livelihoods and critical services including education and healthcare caused by movement restrictions, inter-communal tensions and other factors. Other vulnerable persons are the members of host communities, other conflict-affected populations, and persons in the process of pursuing durable solutions to internal displacement.
Severity of needs
While the drivers and underlying factors triggering humanitarian needs have had an impact on all crisis-affected people to varying degrees in Kachin, northern Shan, Rakhine, southern Chin, Kayin and eastern Bago states, specific population groups and locations have been more severely affected than others and this has been factored into the needs analysis process and consequent humanitarian response.
Among the four population groups, internally displaced and stateless persons (in Rakhine) are in general experiencing the highest levels of inter-sectoral needs, with women, girls and other at-risk population groups being disproportionately affected within these categories. There is also a strong correlation between severity of need and levels of armed conflict.
Security and access constraints
The humanitarian crisis was further compounded by the insecure operating environment. A combination of access related constraints continued to impede the ability of humanitarian partners to reach people in need in a timely manner. Following global trends for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government established strict measures resulting in an extended disruption of humanitarian assistance in Rakhine State in particular. This is in addition to the pre-existing humanitarian access challenges, which remained largely in place, including due to security risks, bureaucratic impediments, blanket bans on eight townships in Rakhine over the course of the year, in addition to continued challenges with access to mobile Internet data in eight townships in Rakhine and Paletwa of Chin states..."
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2021-07-11
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Only 10 bags of rice are allowed into the town each month by the junta, and medicine remains a ‘banned item,’ locals say
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"A temporary ceasefire between local resistance forces and the military in Mindat, Chin State, has been extended until July 14, but locals say the junta continues to impose restrictions on the transportation of basic necessities into the area, contributing to food shortages and insufficient healthcare access.
The Chinland Defence Force (CDF) in Mindat and the military coup council had agreed to a temporary ceasefire from June 23 until July 4 in the town and then extended it 10 more days.
Rice is being transported to Mindat from Pakokku, in Magwe Region, but the junta is only allowing 10 bags of rice—each weighing around 45kg—to be brought in per day, according to the Mindat People's Administration.
“This rice is not enough, even for the town. Most of the people have bought millet and corn to eat,” a Mindat resident said.
Each household is additionally restricted by the military authorities from buying more than one bag of rice per month, a town elder and member of the bilateral negotiating team told Myanmar Now.
He speculated that the aim of the junta’s restrictions on rice may be an attempt to cut off the food supply route for the CDF in Mindat.
An official from the management committee for Mindat’s internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) camps said that the town was running out of medicine and basic healthcare necessities because the junta had declared medicine a “banned item.”
“Medicines are not allowed to be transported to Mindat. The junta’s forces arrest anyone who brings medicine, so no one dares to carry it. There are still a lot of sick people in the mountainous areas,” the committee official explained.
Myanmar Now tried to contact the junta’s information officers to inquire about the restrictions, but the calls were unanswered.
Fighting between local forces and the military began in Mindat in April. Since May 12, clashes have intensified, and more than 20,000 people have fled the area.
A two-week ceasefire agreement was reached in June after the town elders and religious leaders held talks with the military for one week.
The temporary ceasefire agreement bans both sides from firing their weapons, harassing or threatening civil servants—particularly those involved in the anti-coup Civil Disobedience Movement—and states that vehicles transporting food may be inspected but must be allowed into Mindat.
During the 10-day temporary ceasefire extension, representatives from both forces have reportedly agreed to communicate by phone, and to contact the negotiating committee if necessary.
Some IDPs have returned to their homes during this period, but others are reluctant to go back to the town, citing a lack of security and ongoing difficulties procuring basic needs, such as access to healthcare.
“The military council’s side runs an outpatient clinic, from 8 am to 10 am. But some people think the medical care in the town is now inadequate, so they do not come here,” the Mindat town elder and negotiating team member said.
The junta’s health ministry announced on July 2 that there was one new case of Covid-19 in Mindat town.
“If the town is locked down because of the Covid-19 pandemic, people will face more difficulties getting food. Commodity prices will be higher. The situation in Mindat will not be easy at all,” the elder said, adding that he feared his community would “disappear” due to these struggles.
During a one-month period between May and late June, a total of seven people, including pregnant women, infants and the elderly, died while fleeing the ongoing instability in Mindat, according to the Mindat IDP camps’ management committee..."
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"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
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2021-07-11
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"Updated 10 July 2021: As of 10 July, (899) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 10, a total of (5173) people are currently under detention. (249) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
68 year old Saw Kyi and 13 year old Zay Myo Satt, the mother and nephew of protester Kan Win from Pyin Gyi Village in Tanintharyi Region’s Launglon Township were arrested in the evening of July 6 as Kan Win is evading arrest despite terrorist junta searched his home frequently for staging protests.
Political activist Win Tun Naing from Pathein Township, who was evading arrest as a warrant was issued against him for his leading role in the anti-dictatorship protests in Pathein, Ayeyarwady Region, was arrested at a house in Shwepyitha Township, Yangon Region on June 28. He was interrogated at interrogation center 2 of Insein Prison for one week and then transferred on July 6 and now currently detained at Pathein Myoma Police Station.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-07-10
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"Updated 8 July 2021: As of 8 July, (898) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Waimaw Township in Kachin State was killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 8, a total of (5127) people are currently under detention. (247) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. Total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
Mee from Makhawyan Village in Mainer Village Tract in Kachin State’s Waimaw Township was shot to death while she was selling fruit, when junta troops op
ened fire on a car which did not stop on the evening of July 7 at Waimaw Township.
On the night of July 6, Aye Min Thein, who is the father of Aung Khant Hphone, Hlegu Township student union member, was arrested when the terrorist junta did not find Aung Khant Hphone at his home in Yangon Region’s Hlegu Township. Maung Maung and Kyi Thar Maung Maung, the father and younger brother of Khin Marlar Maung Maung, Constituency 2 Regional MP of Hlegu Township in Yangon Region, were arrested by the terrorist junta on the night of July 6.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-08
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"Updated 5 July 2021:
AAPP will not be publishing a briefing, detention, or fatality lists on Sunday’s moving forward.
As of 5 July, (892) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Monywa Township and Kanbalu Township in Sagaing Region were killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 5, a total of (5၀85) people are currently under detention. (240) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1964 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. Total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On July 4 in Mandalay, four people including Myat Thu, a protest leader of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), were arrested by the terrorist junta’s troops while they were at home. Myo Min Soe a.k.a Poe Hat, a village administrator of Pein Ne Kwin Village Tract of Ayeyarwady Region’s Kyangin Township, was arrested by junta on July 1.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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2021-07-06
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"Updated 6 July 2021:
AAPP will not be publishing a briefing, detention, or fatality lists on Sunday’s moving forward.
As of 6 July, (894) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from South Dagon Township and Hlaingthaya Township in Yangon Region were killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 6, a total of (5၀94) people are currently under detention. (241) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1964 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. Total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
On the night of July 5, Khin Kyaw a.k.a Mae Gyi from South Dagon Township in Yangon Region, who is a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD), was shot dead by a pro-junta group called “Pyu Saw Htee”. Khin Kyaw’s dead body was then collected by the terrorist junta from his home.
On July 4, Aung Gyi, a reporter at Myaelatt Athan News Agency, and his 80 years old father San Maung, executive member of NLD of Paungde Township, Bago Region, were arrested on July 4 in relation to the murder of a pro- junta informer in Paungde Town.
Theint Sandi Soe, a third year university student majoring in Law, who was arrested as a hostage when the terrorist junta did not find his father, protest leader of Mogoke Town Soe Htay. Theint Sandi Soe suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and is not being allowed to receive medical treatment for this serious health condition.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-07-06
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"July 4 (Reuters) - Myanmar security forces killed at least 25 people on Friday in a confrontation with opponents of the military junta at a town in the centre of the Southeast Asian nation, two residents and Myanmar media said on Sunday.
A spokesman for the military did not respond to calls requesting comment on the violence at Depayin in the Sagaing region, about 300 km (200 miles) north of the capital, Naypyidaw.
The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said "armed terrorists" had ambushed security forces patrolling there, killing one of them and wounding six. It said the attackers retreated after retaliation by the security forces.
Myanmar has been plunged into chaos by the Feb. 1 coup against elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with violence flaring in many parts of the country of more than 53 million people.
One resident of Depayin, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals, said four military trucks dropped soldiers at the village early on Friday.
Youths from a local People's Defence Force, formed to oppose the junta, took up positions to confront them. However, they only had makeshift weapons and were forced back by the security forces' heavier firepower, the resident said.
"There were people dying at farms and by the railroad. They (soldiers) shot everything that moved," said another resident, who said his uncle was among the dead.
A total of 25 bodies had been collected after the fighting, both residents said.
The BBC Burmese service website and Than Lwin Khet News service carried similar accounts. The Myanmar Now news service put the death toll at not fewer than 31 and said about 10,000 people had fled the area.
Reuters was not able to verify the details independently.
The Depayin People's Defence Force said on its Facebook page that 18 of its members had been killed and 11 wounded.
People's Defence Forces have been founded by opponents of the junta in many parts of Myanmar, some of them in association with a National Unity Government set up underground as a rival to the military administration.
About two dozen ethnic armed groups have fought for decades in Myanmar's borderlands, but Depayin is in the heartland of the ethnic Bamar majority, which also dominates the armed forces.
Violence since the coup has driven more than 230,000 people from their homes, the United Nations says. It also says more than 880 people have been killed by security forces since the coup and more than 5,200 are in detention.
The military authorities have said these figures are not true, but have not given their own estimates.
The army says its assumption of power was in line with the constitution. It alleged fraud in November elections swept by Suu Kyi's party, although the accusations were dismissed by the former electoral body.
In another challenge for the authorities, Myanmar reported a daily record of 2,318 COVID-19 cases on Sunday. The state health system has foundered after it was deserted by doctors and other health workers in protest at the military takeover..."
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"Reuters" (UK)
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-04
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" The junta, still unable to gain political, territorial or economic control in the third
month since its forcible and unconstitutional power grab, has engulfed the entire
country in armed conflict. It has escalated military attacks on urban-based
movements and border-based ethnic communities.
Security forces, including notorious units that committed genocidal atrocities
against Rohingya people, unleashed lethal battlefield tactics in towns and cities,
launched airstrikes on Kachin and Karen states, and shelled villages in Chin,
Kachin, Karen, Shan, and Sagaing States/Regions.
During April alone, security forces killed at least 288 civilians and displaced over
27,000. The junta sentenced 26 civilians to death in military tribunals.
In total, it has killed at least 845 civilians, injured thousands more, displaced over
47,000 ethnic community members, and detained at least 4,537 politicians, activists,
journalists and others, in attacks against the democracy movement.
The Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) (i.e., the elected
parliament) formed an ethnically diverse National Unity Government (NUG).
ASEAN leaders invited junta leader Min Aung Hlaing—who illegally grabbed power
on 1 February—to a meeting, rather than Burma’s legitimate civilian government.
The meeting resolution contained “Five Points of Consensus,” including peaceful
negotiation and cessation of violence in Burma, but not including the release of
political detainees. The junta preceded the meeting by criminalizing the NUG, and
followed the meeting by continuing its violence throughout the country.
The junta’s oppressive attempts to gain control of the country is disintegrating the
economy, potentially dragging it back by 15 years. The UN projects that by 2022,
48% of the country will be in poverty.
In order to avert worse violence and create
space for dialogue and negotiations, the
movement in Burma and allies urge that:
o The UN Security Council must work
with ASEAN, to ensure it complies with
UNSC resolutions on the protection of
civilians, the Geneva Conventions, and
international human rights standards;
o The UN, foreign states, and
international finance institutions (IFIs)
must sanction and stop assisting the
junta; and
o These actors must engage with the NUG
as the legitimate government of Burma,
rather than the junta.....CONTENTS: 2 Burma movement demands
2 Democratic government
4 De jure and de facto authority
5 Air strikes and a new civil war
7 Offensives cross international lines
7 Attempts to stop defections
8 Junta’s violent crackdown
9 Bago massacre, Sagaing attacks
9 Tactics of fear and repression
10 Civilians sentenced to death
11 Media/information restrictions
12 Protests continue despite dangers
13 ASEAN meeting
14 International reactions, sanctions
18 Corporations pick sides
19 Coup continues to destroy economy..."
Source/publisher:
Altsean Burma, Burma Human Rights Network, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Initiatives for International Dialogue, International Federation for Human Rights, Progressive Voice, US Campaign for Burma, and Women Peace Network
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-03
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" The junta, still unable to gain political, territorial, or economic control in the fourth
month since its forcible and unconstitutional power grab, has engulfed the entire
country in armed conflict.
Security forces created battlefields in more towns and cities, expanded airstrikes
on Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, and Sagaing States/Regions, and shelled villages
in all of these places as well as in Shan State.
During May alone, security forces killed at least 125 civilians and displaced over
150,000. There were 530 violent attacks that either targeted or failed to protect
civilians in the first three weeks of May, and a total 2,098 incidents 1 Feb–21 May.
In total, they have killed over 1,000 civilians, injured thousands more, displaced over
200,000 mainly ethnic minority people, and detained at least 5,554 politicians,
activists, journalists and others, in attacks against the democracy movement.
The National Unity Government (NUG) formed an interim armed force, began a
constitutional reform process, and took other democratic, inclusive governance
measures. It suggested granting ICC jurisdiction over events since 1 February.
Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing snubbed ASEAN’s 5-point consensus by escalating
violence and discarding commitments without consequences—ASEAN members
instead moved to remove the call for an arms embargo at the UN General Assembly.
The junta’s oppressive attempts to gain control of the country is disintegrating the
economy. The value of the Kyat fell by 20% since January, inflating costs for people
already impacted by the crippling economic impacts of the coup and COVID-19.
Junta leaders, secure in their access to foreign currency through oil, gas, and
natural resource exploitation, seem willing to accept destruction of the domestic
economy as the price of territorial control.
In order to avert worse violence and create
space for dialogue and negotiations, the
movement in Burma and allies urge that:
o The UN, foreign states, and international
finance institutions (IFIs) must expand
sanctions;
o These actors must engage with the NUG
as the legitimate government of Burma,
rather than the junta; and
o The UN Security Council must take a
more active role, in the face of ASEAN’s
weakness and the junta’s intransigence.....CONTENTS: 2 NUG fights for democracy
5 Air strikes, artillery, and attacks
on towns
10 Violent crackdowns on resistance
13 Resistance bites
14 Protests continue despite dangers
15 Women continue to lead, and
continue to be targeted
16 International reactions, sanctions
18 More corporations depart
19 Economy continues to sink
20 Junta focuses on extractives for
personal enrichment..."
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Altsean Burma, Burma Human Rights Network, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Initiatives for International Dialogue, International Federation for Human Rights, Progressive Voice, US Campaign for Burma, and Women Peace Network
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2021-07-03
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"As of 2 July, (888) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. oup. AAPP compiled and documented (3) fallen heroes today. These (3) fallen heroes from Monywa Township in Sagaing Region, Pyay Township and Shwedaung Township in Bago Region were killed on the previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 2, a total of (5173) people are currently under detention. (233) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1964 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia.
Total 65 sentenced to death in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees.
A youth named Thiha Zaw a.k.a. Nge Lay, who helped people injured during a bomb blast at a factory in Monywa Industry Zone, Sagaing Region, was arrested on the afternoon of July 1. Thiha Zaw’s body was returned on the evening of July 1.
The family was informed on July 1 that a civilian named Soe Min from Bago Region’s Pyay Township, who was arrested on the night of June 29 due to a junta informer who alleged Soe Min destroyed Mya Village School. The body of Soe Min was found with injuries consistent with torture, including bruises over his thigh and body, and electric shock wounds.
In addition to this, Aung Aung Lwin, a 19-year-old, arrested on the night of June 28 due to a junta informer in Shwedaung Township, Bago Region, was tortured to death in interrogation. His body was cremated by the junta on July 1 without being allowed to be seen by the family.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Date of entry/update:
2021-07-02
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"As of 1 July, (885) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. oup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Wundwin Township in Mandalay Region was killed on a previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of July 1, a total of (5195) people are currently under detention; of them (233) are sentenced. 1965 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 40 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 25 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, 1 to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. The names of released detainees have not been immediately available to compile, we will continue to add the released names when confirmed.
Soe San, NLD member in Talsu Village of Wundwin Township, Mandalay Region, who was arrested on June 29, died on June 30. It was informed that he died from COVID-19, however, Soe San had been beaten by the soldiers stationed at the Pintale Hospital.
Assistant surgeon Wutt Yi Aung from Pyay Township, Bago Region, who is involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), was arrested in the morning of July 1. Ko Htike a.k.a Kyaw Linn Htike, who is a member of the Thukha Kar Yi Charity Association and a township Red Cross member in Bago Region’s Nattalin Township, was arrested on the night of June 29 after returning from sending back the patient. In addition to this, Maung Sein, Township NLD Information Committee Member of Taungtha Township in Mandalay Region, who was evading arrest, was arrested on the night of June 29 in Taungtha Township.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-07-01
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"As of 29 June, (883) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 29, a total of (5224) people are currently under detention; of them (222) are sentenced. 1988 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 40 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 25 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, 1 to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
On the afternoon of June 28 in Puta-O Township, Kachin State, Yinn Htan Htal Yam, brother-in-law of a youth the junta police and soldiers came to detain, was arrested as hostage when they did not find the youth they were looking for due to reporting by a pro-junta informer. In addition to this, in the morning of June 28, Aye Aye Myint, wife of, and Hnin Ei Ei San, 14-year-old daughter of a civilian named Tun Wai were arrested as hostage when terrorist junta did not find Tun Wai at his home at Htauk Kyant Village in Kale Township, Sagaing Region.
Aung Soe, a technology student, charged under Section 505(a) and (c) of Penal Code, was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the special court in Dawei Prison, Tanintharyi Region on June 28.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-29
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"As of 28 June, (883) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 28, a total of (5202) people are currently under detention; of them (221) are sentenced. 1966 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 40 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 25 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, 1 to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
Zaw Moe Naing, a policeman of Pauk Myoma Police Station of Pakokku District of Magway Region, and Naing Naing Toe a.k.a Yan Naing Toe, a policeman of Min Ywa Police Outpost in Gangaw Township, who are involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), were beaten and arrested on June 26 by the terrorist junta. On June 24, Pe Tin, a protest leader and NLD member of Kokkar Village of Gangaw Township in Magway Region, was arrested at home by junta troops because of a military informer.
At Mogok Township in Mandalay Region, a wife and two daughters including four years old daughter of protest leader Soe Htay were arrested as hostage on June 13 when the junta did not find Soe Htay. They are currently detained at the Mogok Detention Center. An arrest warrant has been issued against Soe Htay.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-28
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"As of 27 June, (883) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Kale Township and Monywa Township in Sagaing Region were killed on the previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 27, a total of (5183) people are currently under detention; of them (221) are sentenced. 1966 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 40 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 25 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, 1 to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
Zaw Htet, was arrested with his father in the evening of June 25 at Kale Township in Sagaing Region by junta troops, his family was informed on June 26 he died from COVID-19. Zaw Htet was in good health, he was killed from torture according to his friends. On June 25 at 9 pm, Naing Win Oo was shot dead by the terrorist junta without question while he went back to collect a garage key he had forgotten.
In the evening of June 26, Saw Pyae Chan Thar, a reporter from Sagaing City, was arrested by junta troops. On the night of June 25, San Lwin, an engineer, and his son Linn Latt Aung were arrested and beaten on the false information they were carrying explosive materials.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-27
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"The pro-democracy protests continued across the country in different townships despite the continuing lethal attacks by the junta forces and arrested of protests and the youth. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) figures showed that as of 9 May, 780 people have been killed by the junta, 3,826 are currently under detention while 84 were sentenced. 1,540 arrest warrants have been issued and among them 20 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment.
The military junta also said that it would not agree to a visit by a Southeast Asian envoy until it could establish stability. Maj. Kaung Htet San, a spokesperson for the junta’s State Administration Council said in an online news conference: "Whether we will follow the suggestions of ASEAN or not will depend on the situation of the country."
Explosions and killings have been reported in several states and regions including Yangon in the past week while growing numbers of clashes between the military and the civilian defense forces are also reported in Chin State state, Magway and Sagaing regions. Four administrators appointed by the junta were killed in Yangon, Mandalay and Sagaing regions, while a NLD MP and four other people were killed in the explosion of a parcel bomb in Bago region.
Local media also reported the fighting between the military and the KNLA and KIA in Kachin and Kayah States and the military air raids in those areas left dozens of civilians injured. It is also reported more than 7,000 people in Papun district in Karen State are hiding as their villages are being attacked while more than 3,000 fled into Thailand. People of Salween River Basin Network, a civil rights group based in Mae Hong Son, urged the Thai government not to push the refugees back. The CSOs also repeatedly requested humanitarian organisations and relief agencies to take part in the distribution. In addition, more than 200 local and the international NGOs called on the UN to impose Myanmar arms embargo.
The junta also banned three media outlets including Myitkyina Journal, The 74 Media based in Kachin state and Tachileik News Agency from Shan state, totaling up to 8 abolished media outlets since the coup. The detained Japanese journalist, Yuki Kitazumi, was charged for spreading “fake news”.
The National Unity Government (NUG) set up a “people’s defence force” to protect civilians and outlined 35-point basic principles for its defense ministry, after the junta announced that the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), National Unity Government (NUG) and People Defense Force (PDF) are terrorist organizations..."
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Asian Network for Free Elections (Bangkok)
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2021-06-27
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"As of 25 June, (881) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Kale Township in Sagaing Region was killed on the previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 25, a total of (5156) people are currently under detention; of them (218) are sentenced. 1965 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 40 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 24 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, 1 to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
Mai Nuam Za Thiang, 19 years old, died on June 23 at around 10pm after she was arrested with a left thigh injury shot by terrorist junta’s soldiers on June 23 at around 9pm at Kale Township in Sagaing Region. Her family was informed in the morning of June 24 that she died due to COVID-19. It is reported that lots of blood was found on her body.
On June 23, Kyaw Htwe, Dawei Protest Leader in Dawei Township in Tanintharyi Region, was sentenced to (2) years and (4) months imprisonment under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code and Export and Import Law by the special court in Dawei Prison. Likewise Kyaw Htwe, Aung Waiyan Kyaw, a protest leader from Dawei, was sentenced to (4) years imprisonment on June 21.
On the night of June 23, three youths named Kyaw Tayzar Oo, Kaung Kyaw Htet and a youth from Padeegone Town in Bago Region’s Thegon Township, were arrested at their homes by the terrorist junta’s troops for sharing a post of the Thegon People’s Defence Force (PDF). Moreover, La Chake Lwan Nwal, head of nursing in Kachin State, who is involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), was arrested at her home in Chipwi Town on the night of June 23.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-26
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"As of 26 June, (881) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 26, a total of (5174) people are currently under detention; of them (221) are sentenced. 1966 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 40 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 25 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, 1 to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
In the morning of June 26, De Myat Nyein, reporter at Zeyar Times News Agency based in Sagaing City, was arrested at his home. On the night of June 25, seven youths named Hein Thant Zin, Thiha Tun, Hein Min Oo, Sabel Htoo, Aung Paing, Wai Phyo Aung and Aung Htet were arrested by soldiers and police pretending to check overnight guest registration in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon Region. On the night of June 24, Than Than Aye, NLD Chairman of the ward and village in Aye Thar Yar Town in Shan State’s Taunggyi Township, was arrested by soldiers. Kyaw Swar Win, former Major in the military, who had previously been sentenced to two years imprisonment for signing a constitutional amendment, was arrested at his home in Pyin Oo Lwin in Mandalay Region on June 22.
On June 25, Thaw Gyi, NLD executive member of Thazi Township, was sentenced to three years imprisonment under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code by the court in Meiktila Prison in Mandalay Region.
Over 60 people, who have been sentenced under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code in Myeik Prison in Tanintharyi Region, are being forced labor for 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday, 10 hours across Saturday and Sunday.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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2021-06-26
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Most were arrested in townships in the former capital Yangon, where martial law was declared following the army’s coup against the elected civilian government on Feb. 1, 2021.
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"At least 64 Myanmar citizens detained in protests against the country’s Feb. 1 military coup have been sentenced to death by junta courts, with the condemned list including two boys below the age of 18, according to sources in the country.
Most were arrested in townships in the former capital Yangon, where martial law was declared following the army’s takeover on Feb. 1, sources say. None of those sentenced are believed to have been executed, though, with no death sentences known to have been carried out in Myanmar since 1998.
Writing in a letter to his mother sent from prison, one of those condemned—17-year-old Nyein Kyaw Thein, formerly a student at the Thanlyin Youth Training School—denied his guilt in the case of a coup supporter, Zaw Min, who was murdered and set on fire in Yangon’s South Dagon township at the end of March.
“They have called me a killer, but it isn’t true. I didn’t kill anyone,” Nyein Kyaw Thein said, asking his mother to stay strong and look after herself and his father. “Everything’s fine with me. I’ve made you miserable, Mom, and I’d like to make it up to you when I come back, I promise,” he added.
Speaking to RFA, Nyein Kyaw Thein’s mother said she was surprised when soldiers came to arrest her son on April 17, a little more than two weeks after Zaw Min was killed.
“I asked him if he had been involved, and he said he didn’t know anything about it,” she said. “There had been a lot of shooting that day, and the boys went into hiding that night, but we were able to keep in touch by telephone.”
Arrested that same day, 15-year-old Min Thu, a 7th grade student in the school attended by Nyein Kyaw Thein, turned himself in to authorities after being told that his brother-in-law had been detained to force his surrender, his sister said.
“I asked my brother if he had been involved in the killing, and he denied it,” the young woman said. “But someone told him that the police had arrested my husband because they couldn’t find him, and so he gave himself up.”
“He’s a good boy, not a bad kid at all,” she said. “He tells us that [the police] have stopped beating him now, but he’s still being abused by others,” she added.
Four brothers who were working on security duty in their ward of the city on the night of the killing were later taken away from their home at gunpoint after they went to see the murder scene out of curiosity, their mother said, also speaking to RFA.
“At the time, I couldn’t say anything, but it was heartbreaking to see my boys taken from their home in handcuffs,” she said. “We heard nothing about them after that, but later learned that they had been sentenced to death.”
“How am I supposed to take that?” she asked.
“If they had been given prison terms, I would know at least that I would see them again some day after their release, and I could still have some hope for the future,” she said. “But now I can’t do anything but pray every night for their safety.”
“It’s unbearable that they’re in this situation now without having done anything wrong.”
Of the 18 defendants sentenced to death in the Zaw Min case, 11 are now in prison and seven were sentenced in absentia, sources say.
'I suffered in silence'
Bo Bo Thu, sentenced to death in a separate case involving the killing of two soldiers in Yangon’s North Okkalapa township, has now had his sentence commuted to life, his mother told RFA, saying “At least he’s lucky not to be on death row.”
When her son was first sentenced she couldn’t eat or sleep, and would not tell her husband what had happened, she said. “I just kept it in my heart and suffered in silence.”
“I prayed and prayed that my son would not end up on death row—and not only him, but everyone else who had been arrested,” she said.
Myanmar defendants sentenced to death can appeal their sentences within 15 days, but only prison officials are allowed to submit their appeals, lawyers say, with one lawyer telling RFA that officials assigned by prison authorities to submit the documents prepare them according to statements made by the prisoners themselves.
“And we don’t know whether what they’ve written is in accord with the law or not,” he said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a spokesperson for the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said the death sentences imposed by military courts in Myanmar have been handed down “out of resentment.”
“People don’t support their coup and are opposing it in any way they can. And amid all the arbitrary arrests and beatings, the people are fighting back in self-defense. The military then holds a grudge against the people, and they are handing down these death sentences out of resentment,” he said.
Nickey Diamond, a human rights specialist with the Southeast Asian rights group Fortify Rights, said that in recent years death sentences formerly imposed in Myanmar were changed under new laws to sentences of life in prison.
“But there are fears now that the [ruling] Military Council might ignore this fact.”
“These [death sentences] are the junta’s attempt to intimidate those who are opposing the dictatorship and to make them afraid,” he said.
According to data gathered by AAPP and RFA, of the 64 persons sentenced to death in Yangon since the Feb. 1 coup, 20 were sentenced in North Okkalapa, 18 in South Dagon, five in Shwepyithar, seven in Hlaing Thar Yar, and 14 in Shwe Paukkan Myothit..."
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"RFA" (USA)
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2021-06-25
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More than 80 percent of IDPs come back to the Chin State town, but few are expected to stay beyond the two-week ceasefire
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"Locals who had fled fighting in Mindat, Chin State returned home after a ceasefire was agreed to between the regime military and the local People’s Defence Force (PDF), according to a committee working with internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the township.
After one week of negotiations involving local leaders and religious figures, the two forces agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Wednesday. The agreement is only valid until July 4.
More than 20,000 locals have been displaced from Mindat since mid-May by clashes. More than 80 percent have returned home in recent days, the Mindat Township IDP Management Committee has stated.
They had been taking shelter in 80 villages in the region, according to Lawrence, a representative of the committee.
“There’s only a little more than 1,000 IDPs left in the villages,” Lawrence told Myanmar Now.
The majority of the IDPs returned to check on the condition of their homes, many of which were raided when the junta’s armed forces took over Mindat town.
Lawrence noted that this is the season in which Mindat farmers typically cultivate konjac, and the displacement has interrupted their livelihoods and food security.
A member of the anti-coup Mindat Township People’s Administration Team said that while the majority of IDPs have returned following the temporary ceasefire, only a few are expected to stay.
After three consecutive days of clashes in April, the military asked the local defence group to meet with them for negotiations, but the two sides were not able to come to an agreement. Clashes resumed on the night of May 12.
On May 13, the military council imposed martial law in Mindat, and began carrying out raids. They officially seized the town on May 15.
The military council’s armed forces attacked villages sheltering IDPs, including firing heavy artillery at an IDP camp despite the display of a white flag. They also blocked routes through which rations and medical supplies could be sent to the displaced persons.
According to information provided by Mindat’s IDP management committee, by the third week of June, seven people, including a six-day-old baby, a seven-month-old baby, a 13-year-old child, a pregnant woman, and three other adults had died due to a lack of healthcare during their displacement.
A local man who was involved in the negotiations between the regime’s armed forces and the PDF said that the temporary ceasefire was made with these conditions in mind.
“The elderly are struggling a lot. So are the sick and disabled,” he told Myanmar Now.
“Unidentified thieves were destroying the town and people’s homes. People are losing their homes and livelihoods. The entire town became a ghost town. So religious figures from all backgrounds joined hands to pray and plan to bring the town back to life.”
For the period of the ceasefire, both the Mindat PDF and the military agreed to stop carrying out armed searches of people, shooting weapons, pressuring or threatening departmental staff or those involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement, and to allow vehicles carrying aid to IDPs to pass through the town.
Military vehicles stationed on the town’s two main roads—Shwe Aung Thar and Htin Chaung—have since retreated, and some trucks have come to the town to provide supplies, locals said..."
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"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
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2021-06-25
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A pregnant woman, two infants and three elderly refugees died from lack of medical access, sources say.
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"At least six civilians displaced by conflict in Chin state—a pregnant woman, two infants, and three elderly people—have died from lack of access to medical care since fighting erupted between Myanmar’s military and the Chinland Defense Force (CDF) militia two months ago, sources said Thursday.
The deaths come as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated 230,000 people have been displaced by fighting and violence this year and efforts to assist them is being hampered by armed clashes and insecurity.
More than 20,000 people were sheltering at 100 displacement areas in Chin state bordering India, while 177,000 people were displaced in Kayah state bordering Thailand, according to OCHA.
A refugee from the war-torn township of Mindat, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, told RFA’s Myanmar Service that the six had died in the jungle while fleeing a junta offensive in the area.
“At least six people have died in the jungle due to lack of medicine,” the source said, adding that he was unsure of their names.
“The babies were just a few days old. There are old people [who died]. Some fell from the narrow mountain roads while escaping the fighting. Others died because they could not secure their usual medicine.”
Clashes between the military and the CDF have been raging in the remote township of southern Chin state in Myanmar’s northwest since April 26 and have forced more than 30,000 people to flee to safety, according to aid groups.
A five-point bilateral agreement was reached between the two sides Wednesday to ban armed surveillance and the targeting of civilians in Mindat, end the disruption of government services, cease the use of intimidation or coercion to force Civil Disobedience Movement participants protesting the military’s Feb. 1 coup d’état into returning to work, and lift a blockade of the Kyauktaw-Mindat-Matupi Road to allow the delivery of relief.
A member of the CDF, who also declined to be named, said his group agreed to a ceasefire to alleviate the suffering of those in need of food and medicine, while the military “does not care about the plight of people fleeing the war.”
“I don’t think they did it to show compassion to the people,” he said, adding that the military’s decision to enter the agreement likely stemmed from heavy losses it sustained in nearby Chaungzon township.
“They suffered many casualties around Chaungzon and sent in around 60 more men as reinforcements. I don't know whether they came in to quell riots in other areas or to pressure us, but I’m sure they didn’t call for a ceasefire because they care about the people.”
A CDF spokesman said military troops in the region had been told not to disturb residents or make arrests, adding that he was “monitoring the situation.”
Some of the refugees who were hiding in the jungle to avoid the conflict began returning home in the days leading up to the agreement, relief workers told RFA.
However, they said, access to food and medicine remains a challenge, and many refugees are suffering from illnesses, including seasonal flu and diarrhea, and supplies are desperately needed.
“[The military] questioned people who returned to town and some were arrested,” the worker said, adding that the situation remains tenuous.
“It is still unclear at this time what they will do to people after this. There are no guarantees. And there still is a need for food and medicine for the refugees.”
When transporting supplies for refugees, he said, trucks are required to submit to inspections at multiple checkpoints throughout the area.....Ordering refugees home: On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s military staged a coup, seizing power from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), rejecting its landslide victory in November 2020 general elections as the result of voter fraud. The junta has provided no evidence to back up its claims and citizens from all walks of life have protested the takeover.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), the military has killed at least 880 people, while some 5,104 people have been detained, charged, or sentenced in the five months since the coup.
Amid nationwide turmoil, the military has stepped up offensives in remote parts of the country of 54 million that have led to fierce battles with a plethora of People’s Defense Force (PDF) militias formed to protect residents from troops loyal to the junta. Ethnic armies in other parts of the nation have used the instability to encroach on one another’s territory.
Sources in eastern Myanmar’s Kayah state told RFA Thursday that the military has been ordering refugees from Demoso township—where fighting between junta troops and a branch of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) militia broke out on May 20—to return home, but that most have relocated to other areas because they fear for their safety.
One person living in a makeshift camp outside of the township told RFA that soldiers had come to the area and told refugees to return to Demoso and that they would only be given protection if they agreed to do so.
“Some villagers moved elsewhere instead of going back,” he said, adding that the others had no plan to return any time soon.
“Even if we want to return, where would we stay? All our houses have been destroyed, totally or in part. [Troops] are still stationed in the villages. They are even stationed in the refugee camp’s medical center and are forcing people in the camps to cook for them.”
Other sources said that a brave few have returned to villages near to the suburbs of Demoso, but only temporarily because of the need to cultivate their fields, noting that even the state capital Loikaw remains dangerous.....Few willing to return:At least 100,000 people have been displaced throughout Kayah state since fighting broke out more than a month ago in Demoso. They account for the lion’s share of the more than a quarter million civilians in seven regions of Myanmar that the United Nations estimates have fled clashes between the military and militias or conflict between ethnic armies in the four months since the junta overthrew the country’s democratically elected government.
The 226,000 displaced in 2021 join more 500,000 refugees from decades of conflict between the government military and ethnic armies who were already counted as internally displaced persons at the end of 2020, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a Norwegian NGO.
Palan, a social worker based in Demoso, told RFA that only around less than one-third of the 100,000 displaced in Kayah state have gone home, while others refuse because they fear the military or have no dwelling to return to.
“I think about 30,000 have returned at present,” he said.
“The main problem is that most of them are now homeless. Almost all the residents of Demoso and about 50 percent of those from Loikaw have no homes now. There are still a lot of soldiers in the villages, as well as in Ngwedaung and Demoso [townships]. That’s why it isn’t easy to go back.”
Bringing rice to Kayah state from neighboring Thailand to help feed the displaced is also nearly impossible because the military has blocked the supply routes, Palan added..."
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"RFA" (USA)
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2021-06-25
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"An estimated 230,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Myanmar and need assistance, the United Nations said on Thursday, as a major armed ethnic group expressed concern about military force, civilian deaths and a widening of the conflict.
Myanmar has been in crisis since a Feb. 1 coup ousted an elected government, prompting nationwide anger that has led to protests, killings and bombings, and battles on several fronts between troops and newly formed civilian armies.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said relief operations were ongoing but were being hindered by armed clashes, violence and insecurity in the country.
It said 177,000 people were displaced in Karen state bordering Thailand, 103,000 in the past month, while more than 20,000 people were sheltering at 100 displacement areas after fighting between People's Defence Forces and the army in Chin State bordering India.
Several thousand people had fled fighting in northern Kachin and Shan States, regions with established ethnic minority armies with a long history of hostilities with the military.
The Karen National Union (KNU), one of Myanmar's oldest ethnic minority groups, said it was worried about the military's excessive use of force and the loss of innocent civilian lives as fighting intensifies all over the country.
"The KNU will continue to fight against military dictatorship and provide as much protection as possible to people and unarmed civilians," it said in a statement.
The military says it seized power to protect democracy because its complaints of fraud in a November election won by Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party were ignored.....PROTESTS: Anti-junta protests took place in Kachin State, Dawei, Sagaing Region and the commercial capital Yangon on Thursday, with demonstrators carrying banners and making three-finger gestures of defiance.
Some showed support for those resisting military rule in Mandalay, the second-biggest city, where a firefight took place between the army and a newly formed guerrilla group on Tuesday, the first sign of armed clashes in a major urban centre since the coup.
The military-owned Myawaddy Television said four members of the militia were arrested on Thursday, describing them as "terrorists".
At least 877 people have been killed by security forces and more than 6,000 arrested since the coup, according to the Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), an advocacy group which the junta has declared an illegal organisation.
A diplomatic effort by Southeast Asian countries to halt the violence and initiate dialogue between all sides has stalled and the generals say they will stick to their plan of restoring order and holding elections in two years.
In its nightly news bulletin, state-run MRTV reported on the visit of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to Russia, where a military university named him an honorary professor.
Unlike most global powers, Russia has embraced the junta and the country has long been a key source of Myanmar's weaponry. His visit comes amid international pressure on countries not to sell arms to the military or do business with its vast network of companies.
State media on Thursday carried excerpts from a speech in Russia by Min Aung Hlaing in which he said it was necessary for countries to avoid encroaching on another country's sovereignty.
"Myanmar is striving for restoring political peace and stability," it quoted him saying. "The current government is focusing on the reappearance of honesty over democracy."..."
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"Reuters" (UK)
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2021-06-25
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"Abstract: This article explains cross-border uses of force against ethnic armed groups along
Myanmar’s bloody borders with China and Thailand. I trace the history of Burma’s
ethnic disputes, its state-society relations, and the “modernization” of its military
doctrine to understand how its state-building enterprise can shape the use of
force along a state’s frontier. I treat each of the border regions as distinct subcategories to highlight variation in the micro-dynamics as well as types and conditions under which the use of state-orchestrated violence occurs. First, I point to
the role of greater state-building – extractive, coercive, etc. – and how it influences the use of force along border regions. Second, I explore the modernization
of Burma’s military and evolution of its doctrine – this includes early efforts by
the tatmadaw’s post-1988 shift toward a more conventional counterinsurgency
strategy. An implication of my theory is that more peaceful relations between
states perversely can create the conditions for more cross-border violence, as
there are greater opportunities for states to either “pool” border security or
outsource the use of force to proxies or paramilitary forces.....Introduction: The world’s longest civil war rages on in the frontiers of Myanmar between a
government historically dominated by its military and several bands of ethnic
rebels, many of them seeking self-rule.1
At the same time, a number of other insurgencies, including one against a Muslim minority, the Rohingya, continue
along Myanmar’s other frontier regions. Even as Myanmar begins to democratize,
there has been little to no let-up in the violence along its periphery. To understand
Myanmar’s use of force against these groups, one must understand the complicated origins of its military rule, its fitful attempts at state-building and shifts in
its threat environment, both internal and external.
This article posits that the Myanmar’s approach to counterinsurgency and
application of force is a function of two simultaneous processes: First, the state
under military rule has carried out aggressive state-building along its frontier as
a way to further consolidate its boundaries, alternating between the use of local
paramilitary forces and its own armed forces to quell these border regions,
while purposely not eradicating these groups given that the military benefits
from some level of a threat to legitimize its control.2
Simultaneously, Myanmar’s
military (or tatmadaw) seeks to profit from cross-border trade (timber, jade,
opium, etc.), both licit and illicit (see Lintner, 1999; Meehan, 2011). As a result,
it has vacillated between military coercion and political accommodation as a
means of bringing order to its frontiers while also enhancing its economy,
capacity and legitimacy. To this day, these areas, hilly, remote, rich in natural
resources and ethnic hodgepodges, have proved difficult to control and bring
into the political fold.
Second, Myanmar’s civil-military relations have gone through a series of institutional crises and challenges to the regime’s authority. Together with shifts in its
threat environment, this has spurred on a modernization of its military doctrine
(Maung Aung Myoe, 2009, pp. 16–46). During the first years of postcolonial rule
(1948–1958), Myanmar’s military posture was based largely on fear of external
invasion from China (ibid., p.11). Over the next few decades (1958–1988), its
doctrine congealed around the threat of the country’s internal insurgency and ethnic armed actors along the periphery. Following 1988, military doctrine focused
almost exclusively on modernization, as external threats took on renewed attention and the armed forces shifted towards a more conventional warfare stance
(ibid., p. 11). Interestingly, its use of force against ethnic armed groups, even
across borders into neighbouring states, would become more routinized as the
military modernized itself after Ne Win stepped down in 1988. Part of this modernization process was to consolidate its borders and reduce the threat these
groups posed while simultaneously guarding its border against conventional
threats. The tatmadaw would rely increasingly on local border patrols, some of
them comprising ethnic armed factions it was previously fighting. It was a counterinsurgency policy that mixed co-optation with coercion.
Myanmar’s military rules over a fragmented society. The tatmadaw itself is
riven by elite divisions, yet still rules as a leviathan-like entity. It views itself as a
‘modernizing’ force, despite claims to the contrary.3
The case of Myanmar reveals
how military rulers, insulated from public opinion, perceive of state and non-state
threats along its periphery, and how this perception shapes its military doctrine,
at a time of rapid state-building. Its use of force is manifested by the centre’s
exertions of greater control—economic, political and cultural—over its upland
periphery.4
Despite greater civilian control, the government still retains a strong
praetorian composition, which explains its aggressive use of force along its
frontier (Ben-Eliezer,1997).
Externally, despite relatively peaceful relations with its neighbouring states, and
despite greater civilian control, Myanmar has taken a largely offensive approach
to counterinsurgency, one that mixes conciliatory gestures to co-opt armed actors
with the application of brute military force. This article argues that the peripheral
threat is necessary for the tatmadaw’s claims to institutional authority and legitimacy, as well as for the military to profit from the booming economy along the
border. The implications of my argument are that the state should have little
incentive in seeing these areas become completely pacified and so will continue
to wage a border war that mixes conventional counterinsurgency with political
accommodation.
This article proceeds as follows: First, I examine the country’s historical
background of ethnic war, looking at the postcolonial roots of the conflict. Then,
I discuss its early attempts at state-building, placing Myanmar in the larger
literature. Next, I situate my case study in the broader literature on civil-military
relations and explore the historical evolution of its military, how its military
doctrine has evolved, and specifically its use of cross-border force against rebels
in Thailand and China. I conclude with a recap of my theory.....Background of Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar: Myanmar is strategically located in Southeast Asia, wedged between two more
powerful state rivals, China and India.5
It is a nation hemmed in by a horseshoe of
hill country, ethnically diverse, impoverished and constituting what James Scott
has referred to as a ‘negative space’ (Scott, 2009). The highlands of Kachin state
along the northern Chinese border provide insurgents with a natural canopy to
evade being targeted (Tucker, 2000). Likewise, the jungles between Myanmar and
Thailand, rich in lumber and lucrative teal, are some of the world’s thickest.
As John Seabury Thomson noted in 1957, ‘[The] topography of the country and
its isolation from trade routes tended to make the [Burmese] people look inward
rather than outward […]’ (Thomson, 1957, p. 269). That shapes the country’s
view of itself in the wider region as well as its own poorly defined borders and
helps explain why the country currently faces no fewer than a dozen armed ethnic
conflicts.
Besides the ethnically dominant Burman, which constitutes over two-thirds of
the population, the government officially recognizes 135 distinct ethnic groups.
Virtually all of the ethnic groups can be carved up further into various subgroups. The categories still in use today were mostly derived by the British administrators and missionaries, who made perceptions-based differentiations mostly
based on a group’s language and culture. As one British official noted in 1931,
‘[S]ome of the races or tribes in Burma change their language almost as often as
they change their clothes’ (Smith, 1991, p. 34). Interpreting Myanmar’s history by
delineating it into various political-ethnic groups is problematic, if only because
of these groups’ complex identities and overlapping cultures.6
Myanmar retains some of the strictest citizenship laws, which in theory require proof of ancestry
present in Myanmar before arrival of the British in 1824. This has typically been
a ploy to discriminate against non-Buddhist minorities, like the Rohingya, a
Muslim minority not considered citizens of Myanmar (Tang, 2013)..."
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2018 SAGE Publications India via Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs
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2021-06-24
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"As of 23 June, (877) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Monywa Township in Sagaing Region and Kyaingtong Township in Shan State were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 23, a total of (5088) people are currently under detention; of them (210) are sentenced. 1950 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 18 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
Zayar Linn from Lalzin Sanpya Village in Monywa Township’s Sagaing Region was arrested and beaten on the night of June 21. His family was informed on the morning of June 22 that he died. He was found with wounds consistent with torture, one large on the back of his head and all over his body.
In addition to this, on the night of June 19 at Kyaingtong Town in Shan State, Than Soe Aung, a local, was injured and his one year and six month old daughter was killed when they were hit by a car driven by Deputy Officer of the General Administration Department (GAD) in Kyaingtong Township. This was after Than Soe Aung did not stop when told by the junta forces when riding his motorcycle to go to a clinic for his ill daughter. Moreover, Than Soe Aung is being detained at the Kyaingtong Myoma Police Station and has been charged with two lawsuits against him at the station.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-23
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Myanmar’s ousted State Councilor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi faced her second in-person court hearing on 7 June in Naypyitaw that court announced the charges filed against her will finish within 180 days. Media also reported on Thursday the junta charged her under the anti-corruption law, bringing to seven the number of legal cases brought against her since the military coup on 1 February, 2021.
UNDP estimates that the poverty level is increasing rapidly which is 48.2% at present, and assumes reasons were COVID19 pandemic and the military takeover. This was not seen since 2005. Almost a quarter of all factories in the Japan-backed Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Yangon have suspended operations amid post-coup turmoil.
The protests continued in different parts of Myanmar despite the brutal crackdown by the military junta and the unsettled situation continued even in the fifth month after the coup. The clashes between military and the civilian resistance forces and ethnic armed organizations also emerged in several places in Myanmar, such as in Kachin, Kayah, Karen, Chin, Bago, Magway, Shan, Mandalay, Sagaing and Yangon States/Regions.
Three Indian states including Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland are currently sheltering around 16,000 people from Myanmar, civil society groups and government officials estimate, with the number expected to rise in coming months as the situation in Chin state has not improved over the last couple of months.
Five DVB journalists who were charged and convicted for illegal entry to Thailand were reported to have arrived in a “third country” to seek asylum.
There were intense fighting reported in Demoso, Loikaw and Hpruso townships during this week. The Junta has carried out airstrikes on civilian resistance fighters and used artillery on civilian areas. It has also brought hundreds of reinforcements into Kayah State. The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), which is over 60 years old, is backing the civilian resistance of the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF) and People’s Defense Force (PDF). According to Progressive Karenni People Force (PKPF), 50 civilians were killed from March 19 to June 11 in Kayah State following the coup
According to the aid groups, more than a quarter of a million civilians in seven regions of Myanmar have been displaced by clashes between the military and militias or fighting between ethnic armies. IDPs in Kayah and Chin States are in shortage of food supplies and medicines as the junta blocked all the routes to Kayah and Mindat of Chin State, destroying supplies of rice and medicine intended for IDPs.
The United Nations calls on the security forces in Myanmar to allow safe passage of humanitarian supplies and personnel and to facilitate the direct provision of relief assistance by the UN and its partners to all those in need in Kayah, as well as other states and regions across the country where there are urgent humanitarian needs while the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated this week that credible reports indicate that security forces have used civilians as human shields, shelled civilian homes and churches in Loikaw, Phekon and Demoso in Kayah state and blocked humanitarian access.
According to the information compiled by ANFREL, at least 37 bomb blasts happened across Myanmar in the past week. It was reported that at least 9 people were injured.
The most high-profile interaction between the Myanmar military and China took place this week during talks in Chongqing, China between Southeast Asian foreign ministers and China. Junta’s appointed foreign affairs point person Wunna Maung Lwin attended the meeting involving the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and also the meeting with the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation group, the body that China and the five Southeast Asian countries part of co-chaired by China and Myanmar.
Following the G8 Summit last week, the Myanmar community across the world has increased the number of protests in different parts of the world calling from the world leaders for their support to fight against the military junta that staged the coup on 1 February. Around 400 Myanmar people who live in the UK joined a protest against the Myanmar coup in Cornwall where the G7 summit is being held and some more were held in USA, Italy, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Belgium, Australia, Netherland, Canada, Finland, Norway, Ireland and Czech Republic on 12th and 13th of June. The Burma Spring Benefit Film Festival, which features more than 30 films from or about Myanmar, will run until June 20 aiming to draw attention to Myanmar’s political crisis while raising money for groups inside the country striving to restore democracy and alleviate hardship.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), as of 13 June, 863 people were killed by the junta. 4,863 people are currently under detention and 178 are sentenced. 1,936 warrants have been issued. 31 were sentenced to death, 14 people to three years, 39 people to 20 years, 5 people to 7 years imprisonment. There were at least 21 deaths after bodies were returned to families bearing the marks of torture, although the exact number is unknown. Among them were active members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), election officials, pro-democracy activists and young people..."
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Asian Network for Free Elections (Bangkok)
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2021-06-23
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"As of 22 June, (875) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Bahan Township in Yangon Region and Singu Township in Mandalay Region were killed in previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 22, a total of (5053) people are currently under detention; of them (198) are sentenced. 1950 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 18 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
On the night of June 20, Kyaw Kyaw Myo, a bridegroom from Lat Pan Hla Village Tract in Mandalay Region’s Singu Township, was shot dead on spot while delivering wedding invitations with his friend by riding a motorcycle. His friend was beaten and also arrested. In addition to this, on the night of June 19 in Bahan Township, Yangon Region, Phoe Thingyan a.k.a. Phoe Sein, a 13 year-old, was shot in the back and taken injured by terrorist junta soldiers when he ran away after seeing them, he had been playing. On June 21, his family was informed that he had died.
Ngwe Soe a.k.a San Chote, father of Upper House MP for Yebyu Township of Tanintharyi Region Kyaw Zay Yar Soe, was sentenced to two years imprisonment under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code by Special Court in Dawei on June 21.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-22
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"As of 20 June, (871) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen heroes today. from Kani Township in Sagaing Region was killed on June 19. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 20, a total of (5033) people are currently under detention; of them (196) are sentenced. 1950 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 18 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
In the evening of June 19 at Mi Kyaung Twin Village in Kani Township in Sagaing Region, junta forces shot to arrest a local villager called Sein Min. When Sein Min was lying down injured, they shot him dead and put a rifle beside his body, took the photo to conspire that Sein Min was an armed group member. A 15 year-old Kyaw Min Khant Maung, and a CDM staff at Myanma Economic Bank were arrested, as was a 12-year-old boy, who suffers from illness and was taken as hostage when his father and brother were not found in Kale Township, Sagaing Region on the night of June 19.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-21
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"As of 21 June, (873) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Chaungzon Township in Mon State were killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of June 21, a total of (5045) people are currently under detention; of them (196) are sentenced. 1950 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 18 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
On the night of June 20, Moe Zaw Oo and Zaw Min Oo, two youths from Abaid Village in Chaungzon Township, Mon State, were shot dead by junta soldiers when they did not stop riding a motorbike at a checkpoint in Mawlamyine, Mon State.
In the morning of June 21, Nyein (Bago) a.k.a. Aung Ko, a writer from Bago and columnist at the Bago Weekly Journal, and his nephew Zaw Lin Htwe, a 16-year-old, were arrested at home in Bago. In addition to this, after a bomb blast near Pathein Hotel, Pathein Township in Ayeyarwady Region on the night of June 20, Tun Lin Aung, living in a nearby ward, was arrested on suspicion of involvement.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-21
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Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Myanmar has been embroiled in decades of internal warfare. It is a country, though vast in resources and diversity, has been oppressed by authoritarian leaders who have squandered political dissent in exchange for more power and profit. Victims of human rights violations across Myanmar’s 70-year civil war have not received reparations. Before and after the failed coup, junta soldiers continue to brutally crackdown on peaceful protesters. They are also responsible for arbitrarily arresting and detaining civilians, torturing them, killing them and committing acts of sexual violence against young women and girls. Moreover, shelling in ethnic areas is ongoing, which has resulted in widespread internal displacement. The coup by the military has only exacerbated brewing conflict in the borderlands as the junta’s quest for power and control has blinded them from justice and meaningful reforms. Moreover, the perpetrators must be brought to justice.
Displacement is rampant and widespread in Myanmar as intensified clashes between the Tatmadaw and armed groups force thousands to flee. The establishment of various People’s Defense Forces (PDF) in ethnic areas left civilians with no other choice but to take up arms in self-defense. Junta security forces have been relentless in their offensives, particularly in civilian areas. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has put internal displacement in Myanmar at over 330,000.[1] Yet, the junta continues to block aid and urgently needed supplies to displaced groups.
This short briefing paper will detail the impacts on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in ethnic areas of Chin, Kachin, Karen, Kayah and Shan States from 1 May to 15 June and make strong recommendations to the international community to put an end to decades of entrenched military impunity, which has contributed to prolonged conflict. It is based on accounts from local and international media, and from reports and briefing papers from ND-Burma members.....မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် ဆယ်စုနှစ်နှင့်ချီသည့် ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ပြဿနာနှင့် ငြိတွယ်ခဲ့ရသည်။ သယံဇာတ အမျိုး မျိုးထွက်ရှိသော်လည်း နိုင်ငံရေးအရ သဘောထားကွဲသူများအပေါ် ဖိနှိပ်ပြီး အာဏာနှင့် အကျိုးအမြတ် ကိုသာကြည့်သည့် ဖိနှိပ်အုပ်ချုပ်သော အာဏာရှင်ခေါင်းဆောင်များအောက် ကျရောက်ခဲ့ရသည်။ စစ်တပ်မှ အာဏာသိမ်း ထိန်းချုပ်စဥ်အတွင်း မတရားဖမ်းဆီး ထိန်းသိမ်းခံရသူ၊ ပျောက်ဆုံးသွားသူများ၊ ညှဥ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခံရသူများနှင့် အသတ်ခံရသူများအတွက် တရားမျှတမှုနှင့် ပြန်လည်ကုစားပေးလျော်မှု တစုံတရာ မရှိဘဲ ဆက်လက်ကျူးလွန်နေဆဲဖြစ်သည်။ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကြောင့် နယ်စပ်ဒေသတွင် တိုက်ပွဲများ ပြန်လည်ဆိုးရွားလာစေပြီး စစ်တပ်က လိုချင်တပ်မက်သည့် အာဏာနှင့် ချုပ်ကိုင်လိုမှုက တရားမျှတမှုနှင့် အဓိပ္ပါယ်ရှိသည့် ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲမှုကို ဖုံးအုပ်သွားစေသည်။
စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကြောင့် စစ်အုပ်ချုပ်မှုနှင့် ကြီးစိုးလွှမ်းမိုးမှုအောက် ပြန်ရောက်သွားမည်ကို အထူးစိုး ရိမ်ကြသည်။ စစ်တပ်နှင့် လက်နက်ကိုင်တပ်ဖွဲ့များကြား ပြင်းထန်သည့် တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် အရပ်သား များ ထောင်နှင့်ချီ၍ ထွက်ပြေးရသည့် ပြောင်းရွှေ့မှုများ ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့် ဖြစ်ပွားလာသည်။ ပြည်သူ့ ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ် (PDF) များ ဖွဲ့စည်းလာကြခြင်းက ပြည်သူလူထုသည် စစ်တပ်ကို မဖြစ်မနေ လက် နက်ကိုင်၍ ခုခံကာကွယ်ရန် အခြေအနေသို့ တွန်းပို့ခြင်းခံရ၍ဖြစ်သည်။ အာဏာရှင်တပ်များ၏ စစ်ဆင်မှုများတွင် အထူးသဖြင့် ပြည်သူလူထုနေထိုင်ရာ ရပ်ရွာများတွင် အညှာအတာကင်းမဲ့စွာ တိုက်ခိုက်ကြသည်။ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ ညှိနှိုင်းရေးရုံး (OCHA) က မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးနေရသူ ၃၃၀,၀၀၀[1] ကျော်ရှိသည်ဟု ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည်။ သို့သော် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စုက ထွက်ပြေးရွှေ့ပြောင်းနေရသူများအား အကူအညီနှင့် အရေးပေါ် လိုအပ်ချက်များ မပေးပို့နိုင်စေရန် ပိတ်ဆို့ထားသည်။
ယခုစာတန်းငယ်တွင် မေလ ၁ ရက်မှ ဇွန်လ ၁၅ ရက်အထိ ချင်း၊ ကချင်၊ ကရင်၊ ကယားနှင့် ရှမ်းပြည် နယ်တို့ရှိ စစ်ပြေးဒုက္ခသည်များ အပေါ် သက်ရောက်သည့် အခြေအနေများအား ဖော်ပြထားပြီး ခိုင်မာစွာ အမြစ်တွယ်နေသည့် စစ်တပ်၏ အပြစ်ပေးအရေးယူခြင်းမှ ကင်းမဲ့နေသည့် ဓလေ့အား အဆုံးသတ်စေရေးအတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝန်းအား အားကောင်းသည့် အကြံပြုချက်များ ပါဝင်သည်။ အပြစ်ပေးအရေးယူခြင်း ကင်းမဲ့နေမှုကြောင့် ကြာရှည်နေသည့် ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ဖြစ်ပေါ် စေပြီး လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအပေါ်လည်း စိန်ခေါ်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ ရှိနေသည်။ ယခုစာတန်းကို ပြည်တွင်း၊ ပြည်ပ သတင်းများနှင့် ND-Burma အဖွဲ့ဝင်များ၏ အစီရင်ခံစာများ စာတန်းငယ်များအပေါ် အခြေခံ ရေးသားထားခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။..."
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"Excellency,
i am writ ing to you to draw your urgent attention to the recent serious situation in
Myanmar. On 15 June, Myanmar military forces burned an en tire village called Kinma , in
Pauk Township, Magway Region to the ground and those who could not run for their lives
burned to death. Elderlies and sick people were left in the villages when the others had to
flee from their homes d u e to the threatening entering o f the military men.
For y our kind reference. I enclose herewith the Announcement o f the National Unity
Government o f Myanmar dated 17 June 2021 condemning it in the strongest possible
terms.
These horrific acts committed by the military continue amounting to crimes against
humanity. It clearly constitutes the violation o f Article 3 o f the Fourth Geneva Convention
on the Protection o f Civilian Persons in Time o f War o f 12 August 1949. Protecting
civilians must always be a top priority under every circumstance, not only in armed
conflicts. But in total disregarding international laws and principles. Myanmar military has
been terrorizing the civilians since the illegal coup on I February 2021. It is no doubt that
the military will continue to show a total disregard for human life, with no humanity.
The United Na tio n s' call to " spare civilians and civilian infrastructure and ensure
safe and unhindered humanitarian access" has been completely ignored by the military.
There have been on the dire need for medical aid in vulnerable areas o f the country, and
the military has been arresting the healthcare workers who volunteered to provide medical
assistance to the injured. These are clear violations o f international humanitarian law and
international human rights law.
In the aft ermath o f the military coup, collapsing economy, unrest, breakdown o f
public health system, g rowing internal displacement, and difficulty to access aid in need
are leading to a humanitarian c risis in Myanmar. The World Food Program suggests that
some 6.2 million people in Myanmar will face a severe hunger c risis in the coming
months. Despite all the real situations, the military continues blocking and destroying
humanitarian assistance. On 13 June, an ambulance, food, medical supplies, and basic
needs for the civilians were destroyed and set fire. Those supplies were contributed by
well-wishers a cross the country for internally displaced persons.
We are still amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and the military evidently fails to
manage the pandemic. The National Unity Government o f Myanmar has been taking
necessary measures to contain the spread o f the virus and engaging with the people.
The people o f Myanmar do not accept any form o f military rule, and the people have
made their voices loud and clear. Continued military brutal crackdown on the civilians and
pro-democracy movements are being conducted in a systematic and targeted manner. The
National Unity Government together with the people o f Myanmar have been calling on the
United Nations and the international community to take timely collective and decisive
actions on the military to ease violence, to stop killing its own people and to restore
democracy in Myanmar.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances o f my highest consideration..."
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"The UN in Myanmar is alarmed at recent acts of violence that illustrate a sharp deterioration of the human rights environment across Myanmar.
One such case is the discovery of two mass graves in Myawaddy Township (Kayin State), containing the human remains of twenty-five people who had reportedly been detained on 31 May by the Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO). Another case is the reported burning by security forces of more than 150 homes in Kin Ma Village in Pauk Township (Magway Region) on 15 June, leaving two dead and approximately 1,000 people homeless.
The United Nations in Myanmar reiterates its call on all actors in the current crisis to ensure that international human rights norms and standards are respected. This includes upholding the obligation to minimize collateral harm to civilians and to civilian infrastructure, and prohibiting the application of collective punishments against communities, families or individuals.
The United Nations in Myanmar calls for those responsible for human rights violations to be held accountable, including the perpetrators and their chain of command.
လူ့အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်းကျင်အခြေအနေ လျင်မြန်စွာ ယိုယွင်းကျဆင်းလာမှုအပေါ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့အစည်းများ စိုးရိမ်ထိတ်လန့်
(ရန်ကုန်) – မကြာသေးမီက ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့သော အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များ သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်းရှိ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်းကျင်အခြေအနေ လျင်မြန်စွာ ယိုယွင်း ကျဆင်းလာမှုကို ဖော်ကျူးနေသည့်အတွက် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအနေဖြင့် အထိတ် တလန့်ဖြင့် စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်လျက် ရှိပါသည်။
ဖြစ်ရပ်တစ်ခုမှာ မြဝတီမြို့နယ် (ကရင်ပြည်နယ်) တွင် လူ (၂၅) ဦး၏ ရုပ်ကြွင်းများကို မြှုပ်နှံထား သည့် နေရာနှစ်ခုအား တွေ့ရှိရခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထိုသူများသည် ကရင်အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (KNDO) မှ မေလ (၃၁) ရက်နေ့တွင် ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်းခံခဲ့ရသူများ ဖြစ်သည်ဟုဆိုပါသည်။ နောက်ဖြစ်ရပ် တစ်ခုတွင် ရရှိသည့် သတင်းများအရ ဇွန်လ (၁၅) ရက်နေ့က လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များသည် ပေါက်မြို့နယ် (မကွေး တိုင်းဒေသကြီး) ရှိ ကင်းမရွာတွင် လူနေအိမ်ခြေပေါင်း ၁၅၀ ကျော်ကို မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့မှုကြောင့် လူ နှစ်ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီး လူပေါင်း ၁,၀၀၀ ခန့် အိုးမဲ့အိမ်မဲ့ ဖြစ်ခဲ့ရခြင်းပင် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအနေဖြင့် လက်ရှိအကျပ်အတည်းတွင် ပါဝင်ပတ်သက် နေသူများအားလုံးအနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးစံများနှင့် စံချိန်စံညွှန်းများကို လေးစားလိုက်ကြရန် ထပ်လောင်းတိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံတကာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးစံနှုန်းများကို လိုက်နာမှုဟု ဆိုရာတွင် စစ်ဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ လုပ်ဆောင်မှုများအတွင်း အရပ်သားများနှင့် အရပ်ဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ အခြေခံအဆောက် အအုံများကို ထိခိုက်မှုများ နည်းနိုင်သမျှအနည်းဆုံးဖြစ်အောင် လုပ်ဆောင်ရမည့် တာဝန်နှင့် ရပ်ရွာလူထုများ၊ မိသားစုများ သို့မဟုတ် လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များအပေါ် သိမ်းကျုံးရောနှော၍ အပြစ်ပေးခြင်းကို တားမြစ်ရန် တာဝန်တို့အား စောင့်ထိန်းခြင်းလည်း ပါဝင်ပါသည်။
လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများအတွက် ကိုယ်တိုင်ကျူးလွန်သူများ နှင့် အမိန့်ပေးစေခိုင်းသူများအပါ အဝင် တာဝန်ရှိသူများကို တာဝန်ခံမှုရှိစေရန် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့များမှ တိုက်တွန်းပါသည်။..."
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United Nations Myanmar
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2021-06-18
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"As of 17 June, (865) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 17 June, a total of (4962) people are currently under detention; of them (183) are sentenced. 1937 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
On June 15, Yamin Htike a.k.a. Htike Htike, a middle school teacher at the Basic Education High School in Mi Kyaung Ye Town, Magway Region, who was involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), was arrested in Magway. A protest strike in Thayet Hna Khwa Village, Thayetchaung Township, Tanintharyi Region, was cracked down by a private car. Six policemen sped by and opened fire into the air on the evening of June 14. During this crackdown, Thi Thi Mar, a local villager was arrested.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-17
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"A new briefing paper released today by KWAT provides an update of human rights violations by the regime’s security forces in urban and rural areas of Kachin State and Muse District of northern Shan State during April and May, 2021.
Security forces have continued to use live ammunition against unarmed protesters, killing two men, in Bhamo and Hpakant. They have also continued hunting out activists in urban areas, arresting sixty-one people during the two months, including NLD members, doctors, journalists, and youth leaders.
In rural areas, in response to losses inflicted by the KIA, the regime’s forces have stepped up brutal reprisals against civilians, including torture, arbitrary shooting, and shelling of residential areas.
Youth in Myitkyina, Mohnyin and Kamaing have been arbitrarily arrested and tortured for suspected links to the KIA. This included three boys returning from playing football, who were detained in a military base for 12 days, beaten in the head with guns and burned with cigarettes.
Escalated shelling along the Dawhpumyang-Momauk highway in southeast Kachin State has killed nine villagers and injured fifteen, including three children. This was in direct retaliation for KIA gains in the area, including the recapture of the Alaw Bum mountaintop base on March 25, and the shooting down of a regime helicopter on May 3.
The attacks on civilians have caused large-scale displacement, with over 6,000 new IDPs fleeing to Momauk and Bhamo towns. Their former homes are now occupied by Burma Army troops from the notorious elite infantry divisions 77, 88 and 99, who have been looting villagers’ property, livestock and food.
KWAT is calling for economic and diplomatic sanctions on the illegitimate coup regime, and for a global arms embargo and no-fly zone over Burma. Neighbouring countries, including China, are urged to stop the regime from using their airspace to launch attacks.
KWAT urges foreign governments to endorse the National Unity Government as the legitimate government of Burma, and requests international donors to provide humanitarian aid cross-border to the IDPs in ethnic areas..."
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Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
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2021-06-17
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"On 31 May at 1700hrs, the Burma Army attacked Demoso Town in Karenni State; they shot on and off for two hours, with two different helicopters. One was a Russian attack helicopter Mi 35. One person was killed in the attacks and six were wounded. Almost every villager in Demoso and Hpru So have evacuated and are now displaced in the jungle. The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) estimates that there are nearly 100,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) now in Karenni State since these attacks.
KNPP estimates of IDPS:
Eastern Loikaw – over 10,000
Western Loikaw – over 10,500
Demoso – over 65,000
Hpru Soh – over 11,000
The Burma Army has sent reinforcements into Demoso area. They have started to burn the houses of suspected sympathizers believed to be involved with the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) or People’s Defense Force (PDF).
IDPs are in need of food, shelter and medicine as the rainy season has begun.
We are also sad to inform you all that we lost one of our Karenni Rangers. All Lo Sein was killed by the Burma Army on 27 May as he was rescuing civilians trapped under fire by the Burma Army in Demoso Town.
All Lo Sein joined FBR in 2017 when he was 19 years old and told us that he wanted to learn how to help his people more. He was the second son and had nine brothers and sisters. He conducted relief missions after his initial training and also helped organize community support efforts. He was a kind, intense, dedicated and brave man who loved others more than his own life. He was gunned down by Burma Army troops when he placed himself between the troops and the townspeople they were attacking. Read more about him in the following FBR field report..."
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Free Burma Rangers
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2021-06-16
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"As of 16 June, (865) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Pyigyidagun Township in Mandalay Region was killed the previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 16 June, a total of (4911) people are currently under detention; of them (182) are sentenced. 1937 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
On the night of June 14, Su Paing Htwe a.k.a Paing Paing, died from severe bleeding when he did not receive adequate medical treatment after being shot in the stomach by junta’s forces while riding a motorcycle at Pyigyidagun Township in Mandalay Region.
After junta forces set fire to homes in Kingma Village in Magway Region’s Pauk Township on the evening of June 15, Some elderly and a disabled villager were killed, and buffalos and cattles died. In addition to this, a villager was shot in the thigh and some villagers arrested.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-16
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The remains of two bodies believed to belong to an elderly husband and wife are discovered after regime troops burn down the village of Kinma, house by house
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"The remains of two burned bodies believed to belong to an elderly husband and wife—Mya Maung, 85, and Kyi Hmein, 83—were discovered by the villagers on Wednesday. While other residents—including their eight children—fled, the couple had stayed behind and hid in their home.
“The old man was in really poor health. He couldn’t even walk anymore. All of his children were fleeing so none of them could save him from the fire. I think the old woman chose not to run and to die with her husband,” a neighbour of the couple told Myanmar Now.
Kinma’s residents left their homes on Tuesday in anticipation of the raid by regime soldiers, leaving food and water for five elderly people who were unable to run with them, a Pauk Township local said. They had planned to return to check on them the following day.
Once the fire started to engulf the village, residents hiding nearby were able to return and save three of the elders, but not Mya Maung and Kyi Hmein, a local said.
Kinma is home to some 1,000 residents and is 18 miles from Pauk, a town in central Magwe Region bordering Chin State. By Wednesday morning, images posted on social media by Pauk locals indicated that much of the village had been burnt down.
One of the residents who returned to the village on Wednesday told Myanmar Now that he had witnessed Mya Maung and Kyi Hmein’s son crying amidst the ashes of his parents’ home.
He added that only around 50 houses—out of some 230—were still intact.
Conflict in the area intensified after June 12, when gunmen on motorbikes shot at the house of the junta-allied administrator of Deedotekwin village, more than 12 miles from Kinma.
One of the motorcycles broke down and was left behind in Deedotekwin by the gunmen. The regime authorities traced the bike’s licence plate to Kinma, according to a local. Policemen and plainclothes soldiers then went to the village in search of the suspect.
Kinma’s villagers fled when they got word of the junta’s armed forces’ arrival. Seeing no one in the village, the troops then set fire to the village, said the Pauk resident.
Be Tu, a man from Pauk who had contact with the civilian resistance in Kinma, said that gunfire was exchanged between local fighters and the regime troops outside of the village as they arrived in the area on Tuesday.
He said that the shootout ended at around 4pm, and estimated that up to 15 junta soldiers were killed and one local was injured. Myanmar Now was not able to independently verify the number of casualties.
After the clash, around five policemen set fire to Kinma, starting with a house near the village school. Dozens more policemen then set fire to the other residences, according to a resident in hiding who witnessed the community burning.
“The fire did not spread from the first house. They set nearly every house on fire—in the middle, west and north of the village,” U Kin, another Kinma resident, explained on Wednesday. “What I saw at the village today were just mounds of ashes.”
Editor’s Note: This article was updated on the evening of June 16 to include further details concerning the fire and the two victims killed in the attack..."
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"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-16
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After three deaths of alleged regime allies in the area, the junta’s armed forces storm villages and open fire on locals
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"Regime soldiers opened fire on villages in Sagaing Region’s Depayin Township on Monday after both a former local administrator and the daughters of a current junta-allied administrator were killed by unknown assailants one day earlier.
One villager was killed and another was seriously injured in Monday’s attack.
On Sunday evening, locals in the Depayin Township village of Kyi found the bodies of two women—Than Than Sint, a school teacher in her 30s, and San, in her 40s—with visible stab wounds near a creek. Their father, Thein Zaw, the village’s administrator under the military regime, fled the area soon after.
Junta-run newspaper Kyemon alleged on June 15 that “armed terrorists” were responsible for the women’s deaths.
Bo Tint, the former administrator of Inpin village, also in Depayin, was shot in the head on Sunday evening as well. He had been accused of being a military informant regarding anti-coup activities due to his close ties to the army.
After the three deaths on Sunday, 16 military trucks were subsequently deployed to villages throughout the township. On Monday afternoon, the junta’s army first opened fire on residents of Satpyarkyin and Boke, two miles west of Kyi.
“They stormed the villages for no apparent reason. They used a lot of force,” a Boke resident said.
Twenty-one-year-old Boke local Aung San was shot in the chest and died immediately. Thike Htwe, 22 was shot in the abdomen and in the pubic region and is seriously injured.
Villagers feared Thike would be arrested and tortured if he were taken to the hospital, so he was being treated in a safe house at the time of reporting, according to residents.
Hundreds of soldiers then stormed the villages of Kyi, Inpin, Nyaung Hla and Yin Kyay, reportedly chasing and shooting at locals.
At around 6pm on Monday, fighting broke out between the army and the local People's Defence Force (PDF) near Inpin. The clash lasted more than 30 minutes.
Two regime soldiers were killed and seven were injured in the fighting, according to the local PDF.
On Tuesday morning, around 300 soldiers in 22 military trucks opened fire in Nyaung Hla. Further information about the incident was not available at the time of reporting.
Since April, the junta’s troops have been deployed to the Sagaing Region villages where there have been anti-coup activities in Depayin, Yinmabin, Kani, Taze, Ayataw and Mingin townships..."
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"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
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2021-06-16
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"Mindat, a small town in a remote and mountainous region of southern Chin State, is more isolated than ever these days.
A full month has passed since martial law was imposed on the town and the surrounding area, and it now lies virtually empty, according to some of its few remaining residents.
“There are no open shops, no hawkers—just dogs and pigs on the streets,” said one person who spoke to Myanmar Now on condition of anonymity.
“People even left their pets behind when they fled. The pigs broke their fences and now they’re roaming the streets looking for food,” he added.
Martial law was imposed on Mindat a day after talks between the military and local resistance forces collapsed on May 12.
Since then, more than 90% of the town’s roughly 11,000 inhabitants have fled as the military continues to tighten its grip, according to residents.
At least 10,000 people have been displaced, with most seeking shelter in neighbouring villages or in the forest, according to the Mindat People’s Administration Team, which negotiated with the military to end the fighting.
A town in terror
Mindat’s resistance movement was among the first in the country to take up arms against regime forces cracking down on anti-coup protesters.
The Chinland Defence Force (CDF), formed in early April, claimed multiple casualties in its clashes with junta troops, but suspended fighting later in the month as it called for the release of detained protesters.
However, it wasn’t until the military suffered even greater losses after fighting resumed a few days later that it agreed to negotiate.
This led to 10 days of relative peace that ended abruptly on May 12. The resistance forces initially defied the imposition of martial law, but were forced to retreat when the military sent reinforcements to occupy the town two days later.
Anyone who was still in Mindat after troops took control of the town on May 15 has been forced to stay there due to the heavy military presence, according to residents.
Soldiers have taken over all major roads and public areas, making most fearful of encounters that could end in arrest or worse, they said.
“They interrogate everyone very strictly, so no one dares to go out. They’re suspicious of young people, so it’s even worse for them. They want to know if you’re a local and tell you to show them your ID and phones,” said one man still living in Mindat.
Another danger is stray artillery shells, which sometimes hit residential neighbourhoods. The junta has blamed such incidents on local resistance forces, despite the fact that they are not believed to possess any heavy weaponry.
On May 26, the regime released a statement claiming that its troops were under orders to act only in self-defence. However, with soldiers taking over houses and public buildings, including churches and other places of worship, few believe that they are in the town simply to keep the peace.
Meanwhile, the regime has portrayed the resistance forces variously as “rioters” and “terrorists”, citing ambushes targeting military columns and other guerrilla tactics.
Armed only with hunting rifles and improvised weapons, the CDF has been accused by the military of “terrorising” its heavily armed troops.
The regime has made no mention, however, of the thousands of civilians who have fled in terror of the troops that have taken over their town.
Targeting IDPs
While there has been no fighting in the town since it was placed under martial law, the surrounding area continues to see clashes.
Since the third week of May, villages housing internally displaced persons (IDPs) have increasingly come under fire, according to relief workers.
On May 21, the CDF attacked some soldiers in plain clothes who had entered the village of Pukun, where a number of IDPs had been hiding, amid fears that regime forces were trying to infiltrate camps for the displaced.
In another incident that took place on May 30, troops opened fire on an IDP camp in the village of Asakan, despite the fact that a white flag had been raised at the site to indicate that its inhabitants were not engaged in the conflict.
“The moment they hear that IDPs are arriving in a village, it becomes a target. It’s pretty obvious. They are clearly intent on cracking down on civilians, even when the CDF hasn’t made the first move,” an IDP camp administrator told Myanmar Now.
The IDPs live in a constant state of insecurity, as the military steadily widens its area of control to include more and more villages in the area.
“They always have to be ready to run. The moment they hear the word ‘Tatmadaw’, they start getting nervous,” said the secretary of one IDP camp committee, referring to the Myanmar military.
In addition to direct attacks, the military has also moved to block shipments of food and other supplies to the IDPs.
Since June 7, when clashes broke out along the main road from Kyaukhtu, the town in Magway Region that has been the chief source of supplies, most villages located near the road have come under military control, according to relief workers.
“The rations mostly come from Kyaukhtu. Since the military is blocking the road from there, there’s no other way to transport rations. It’s the only route,” said one IDP camp official.
Besides food and clothing, many of the IDPs, including children, pregnant women, and the elderly, are in need of medicine support, he added.
White flags
On May 29, military officials announced that Mindat residents who registered with the authorities would be free to return to their homes or stay in one of eight churches or two monasteries designated as shelters.
Few, however, have taken them up on their offer.
“Some who can’t stay in the forests have gone back, but the vast majority haven’t. They just don’t trust the military,” said a member of the Mindat People’s Administration Team.
Some who were unable to leave in the first place have entered the military-sanctioned shelters, but only because the alternative seemed too dangerous.
“We stayed at home before, but we kept hearing all these shots, so we didn’t dare go outside. [Soldiers] would just start shooting if they heard a sound or saw someone, so we moved here because we were told it would be safe,” said a member of one family now living in an official shelter.
“We can go around town now, but only if we’re holding a white flag,” he added, noting that, to avoid taking unnecessary risks, he only goes to his home once a week.
Other residents also expressed similar concerns about the efficacy of white flags as a form of protection.
“Even when we’re just going out to get vegetables, we need to carry a white flag. That’s still no guarantee, but we have to take our chances so we don’t just starve to death,” said one local.
To make matters worse, the town’s mains water supply has been cut off since May, making trips to collect water a daily necessity.
“There’s no water, so we have to go to the streams to get it. We don’t even have enough water to maintain hygiene,” said another resident.
A member of the Mindat People’s Administration Team said it was difficult to know how many people were still living in the town.
Among them, however, are elderly people who were too frail to flee before the military arrived. In some cases, it is almost certain that they haven’t survived the challenges of meeting their basic needs on their own in a town under siege.
Meanwhile, as fighting spreads to other villages in the area, many are worried that Mindat could once again become a battle zone.
But for some, the greater fear is what will happen to the town if the military ultimately prevails in the ongoing struggle.
“This is the poorest town in the poorest state. Even if our revolution succeeds, it will be difficult for us to get back on our feet. So I want to urge everyone to please be active before the entire population gets wiped out,” said one defiant resident..."
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A month after coming under martial law, the town in southern Chin State has been all but emptied of its inhabitants
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2021-06-16
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"After the military invited civilians displaced by fighting to return to their villages in Demawso Township, many were horrified after discovering that armed forces had completely looted and destroyed their homes.
“My house was hit by shells and riddled with bullet holes…They (soldiers) destroyed everything inside it. There is nothing left,” The man explained the Army destroyed his TV, refrigerator, cabinet and ruined all of his clothing. He said soldiers even took his new cooking pots, pans and plates.
The military stayed in people’s homes during the conflict against the People’s Defence Force (PDF).
Civilians also found live shells and ammunition around their dwellings. Burma Army artillery fire destroyed many homes during weeks of indiscriminate attacks on the villages in the township.
The Army made villagers who had secretly returned to their homes in western Demawso Township work for them.
“Soldiers forced some to carry their food ration and military equipment,” a villager from western Demawso Township told Kantarawaddy Times. Soldiers ordered residents on their knees before beating them, the person explained. After seizing their phones, they put them to work.
A military column shot at residents keeping guard of Patan Kho village in Myalae village tract on June 11.
Local groups appealed to military leaders not to fight in western Demawso Township. PDF listened but Burma Army sent soldiers to patrol the area. They looted homes and killed and ate people’s chickens and pigs.
No one dared to stay in their villages with the soldiers. According to recent reports on social media, the military arrested some civilians who returned home after hiding out in the jungle camps..."
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Kantarawaddy Times (Deemawso Township)
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2021-06-16
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"As of 15 June, (864) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Depayin Township in Sagaing Region was killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 15 June, a total of (4893) people are currently under detention; of them (182) are sentenced. 1937 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
In the evening of June 14, Aung San from Boke Village in Sagaing Region’s Depayin Township was shot dead in the chest when the junta troops opened fire on villages after two daughters of a coup council-appointed village administrator in Kyi Village, Depayin Township were stabbed to death.
The terrorist forces searched for youth protestors to arrest in Patheingyi Township after two police were shot dead in Mandalay Region’s Patheingyi Township. A mother, who is not in good health, elder sister and brother were taken as hostages on June 11 when the junta forces did not find the two brothers who are pro-democracy demonstrators in Patheingyi Township. Lwin Maung Maung, Regional Hluttaw MP for Meiktila Constituency No.1, currently detained in Meiktila Prison, was sentenced to three years imprisonment on May 12 without trial.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-15
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Anti-coup protesters, Spring Revolution, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, violations of, Human Rights Defenders, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"As of 14 June, (863) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 14 June, a total of (4880) people are currently under detention; of them (178) are sentenced. 1937 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
Doctor Maung Maung Nyein Tun, lecturer of surgery at the University of Medicine in Mandalay, and Swe Zin Oo, a specialist doctor at Mandalay Public Hospital, were arrested on June 13 in Mandalay City.
Mar Mar Khaing, MP for No.2 constituency in Thaton Township, Mon State and her husband Nyan Tun, Executive Committee member of NLD of Kyaikmaraw Township, under detention in Kyaikmaraw Prison, were charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code on June 11 by the Thaton Township Court.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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2021-06-15
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"I would like to draw your urgent attention to the horrible situation in Myanmar, in particular in Mindat, Chin State. After the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) staged the coup d’état on 1 February 2021, it killed over 800 people and arrested over 4,000 people. The murderous military and security forces have persistently committed irresponsible, irrational and disproportionate actions against the civilians.
Despite the continued calls by all relevant stakeholders, including the international community, the military has failed to end all forms of violence against the innocent people. It instead has accelerated acts of terrorism in many places acr oss Myanmar.
In this regard, I wish to enclose herewith an announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the National Unity Government of Myanmar dated 15 May 2021 calling for immediate attention on Mindat (see annex). Owing to the Tatmadaw’s terrorist actions against the innocent people of Mindat, Chin State, the Chinland Defense Force, by exercising the right to self-defence, has been defending the defenceless people of Mindat. Since 14 May 2021, the Tatmadaw has been sending more forces to the areas near Mindat, while attack helicopters are hovering about the houses of the people in Mindat. The military is shooting inside the town using heavy artillery. Within the next 48 hours, Mindat could potentially become a battleground and thousands of people are facing the danger of being displaced. There have been 5 innocent people killed by the military actions against the civilian population and 10 people injured. Many more are potentially under the threat of fatalities and serious injuries. The military has arrested the health workers who were volunteering to provide health-care assistance to the injured people. Therefore, we would like to urge the international community to take immediate action to end all violence of the Tatmadaw and protect the defenceless people of Mindat, Chin State.
I would like to echo the announcement by calling for your urgent attention to the situation in Mindat and for immediate and decisive action from the United Nations and the international community to save the lives of civilians in Mindat and to protect the people of Myanmar.
I kindly request that the present letter and its annex be circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda items 34 and 72 (c).
(Signed)
Kyaw Moe Tun
Permanent Representative..."
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Permanent Mission of Myanmar to the United Nations (New York)
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2021-06-14
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"As of 13 June, (863) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Demoso Township in Kayah State was killed on a previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 13 June, a total of (4863) people are currently under detention; of them (178) are sentenced. 1936 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
In the morning of June 11, May Lar was shot dead when he was bringing food back to Padan Kho Village from a displaced camp in Demoso Township in Kayah State because they lacked food. Two lawyers from Hpa-an Township in Karen State, who are representing political detainees including Karen State Chief Minister Nan Khin Htwe Myint, were arrested on June 10 at Myawaddy in Karen State. A lawsuit was filed against them under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code at Myawaddy Police Station. In addition to this, Kyaw Myat Min, a political activist, who was charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, was arrested at Hlae Kyaw Kone Village Monastery which is located in Pathein Township in Ayeyarwady Region on the night of June 10. While the monk was being arrested he was defrocked. Moreover, Aung Ko Min, a disabled man, living in Dawei in Tanintharyi Region, was arrested after leaving his home in a wheelchair on June 11.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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"As of 12 June, (862) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Demoso Township in Kayah State was killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 12 June, a total of (4848) people are currently under detention; of them (178) are sentenced. 1936 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
In the morning of June 11, Saw Bel Kream Hel a.k.a Khun Bel Bel was shot twice in the chest and died on the spot while he was helping to push a pick-up truck. In the evening of June 11, doctor Ye Zin Aung, Obstetrician-Gynecologist from Myingyan Hospital, was arrested at Myingyan Town in Mandalay Region.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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"As of 11 June, (861) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Yenangyaung Township in Magway Region was killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 11 June, a total of (4823) people are currently under detention; of them (176) are sentenced. 1936 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
On the night of June 10, Maung Chit Thae a.k.a Chit Ko Win, a university student, was shot dead on the spot while he was passing through the front of Yenangyaung Government Technical Institute (GTI) riding a motorcycle at Yenangyaung Township in Magway Region. On the night of June 10, Myo Win Aung, photographer, was arrested at home by so-called police and soldiers at Taungdwingyi Township in Magway Region. On June 5, Ma Eaint, a filmmaker, was arrested by the junta in Rangoon while leaving her home.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Escalating violence across Myanmar including attacks on civilians must be halted to prevent even greater loss of life and a deepening humanitarian emergency, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Friday.
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"Ms. Bachelet’s appeal follows reports of a continuing military build-up in various parts of the country including Kayah State in the east – where more than 108,000 people have fled their homes in the last three weeks – and in Chin State in the west.
This runs contrary to commitments made in April by Myanmar’s military leaders to regional powers ASEAN, to cease brutal violence against civilians which has followed the 1 February coup.....Rising toll:
“As I had feared, armed conflict and other violence are intensifying in many parts of Myanmar, including Kayah State, Chin State and Kachin State, with the violence particularly intense in areas with significant ethnic and religious minority groups”, Ms. Bachelet said in a statement.
“State security forces have continued to use heavy weaponry, including airstrikes, against armed groups and against civilians and civilian objects, including Christian churches.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights cited credible reports that security forces had used civilians as human shields, shelled civilian homes and churches in Loikaw, Phekon and Demoso, in Kayah State.
She also appealed for hospitals, schools and places of worship to be protected throughout the country, after several reported incidents in which hospitals, schools and religious institutions were entered and occupied by State security forces, “fired upon and damaged in military actions”.....Aid workers blocked: Soldiers had also blocked humanitarian access, including by attacking humanitarian actors, Ms. Bachelet insisted, noting with concern that more than 108,000 people had fled their homes in Kayah State over the last three weeks alone, many into forest areas where they are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also warned that “sweeping arrests” have continued of activists, journalists and opponents of the regime.
At least 4,804 people remain in arbitrary detention, Ms. Bachelet’s office noted, before citing reports of torture and collective punishment of family members of activists – including one mother of an activist who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in place of her son on 28 May.....‘Human rights catastrophe’: “In just over four months, Myanmar has gone from being a fragile democracy to a human rights catastrophe. In addition to the loss of life, people are suffering from severe impacts on the social and economic rights. The military leadership is singularly responsible for this crisis, and must be held to account,” the High Commissioner said.
Since the military takeover, a minimum of 860 people have been killed by security forces, mostly in the context of protests, the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) noted.
More than 100 self-styled “people’s defence forces” and opposition armed groups also operate across the country, said OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, although there was “little centralised command”.....ASEAN appeal: Appealing for an “intensification” of regional diplomacy, including by regional power bloc ASEAN and other influential States, Ms. Bachelet urged them to insist on the immediate cessation of violence and ongoing violations.
“Dialogue is urgently needed with the National Unity Government and civil society stakeholders”, she said.
The High Commissioner noted that she intends to update the UN Human Rights Council on the situation in Myanmar on 7 July..."
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"Following the February coup, the violence used by the security forces against civilian protestors in Myanmar’s towns and cities has shocked public opinion around the world. But, as Naw Hsa Moo and Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre explain in this commentary, such tactics have long been used by the Myanmar armed forces in military operations in the country’s ethnic states and regions. Awareness is now building and, as they argue, the military coup has brought new understanding and sympathy between pro-democracy and ethnic nationality movements.
Since the seizure of power by the military State Administration Council (SAC) on 1 February, mass protests have swept towns and cities in every state and region in Myanmar. As the days have passed by, civilians have faced the brunt of an increasingly aggressive response from the national armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, whose indiscriminate use of force has now led to over 70 killed, countless injured, and more than 2000 people detained. And yet, despite the heightened use of military force, the general public throughout the country continue to stand in defiance, leading creative protests, with people of diverse ethnicities and backgrounds joining strikes and the civil disobedience movement.
All nationality peoples are being impacted. For lowland Bamar (Burman) people, the majority ethnic group, the current repression against civilians carries terrifying reverberations of past violent state-led responses towards demonstrators, most notably during the 1988 pro-democracy protests. However, for those living in many non-Bamar areas, the militarisation and pervasive sense of fear accompanying current events are sadly all too familiar. For many decades, they have been regular features of daily life, notably in the Kachin, Karen, Kayah (Karenni), Mon, Rakhine (Arakan) and Shan States.
Karen State in Myanmar’s Southeast is a poignant example of such struggles. Home to what is often considered the world’s longest-running civil war, conflict has escalated between the Tatmadaw and the armed opposition Karen National Union (KNU), with over 6,000 civilians displaced from their villages since the Tatmadaw intensified military operations in December 2020. The majority people living here identify as Karen, one of the country’s largest nationality groups, and are largely farming communities living in forested hills and winding valleys that run down the Thailand border. In response to the twin threats of military incursions and the SAC coup, villagers across Kler Lwee Htu (Nyaunglebin) and Mutraw (Hpapun) Districts have been regularly demonstrating, demanding the removal of the Tatmadaw from their lands and expressing solidarity with the protest movement across the country.
Whether in conditions of war or peace, Karen communities have faced the same challenges in every era of government since the country’s independence in 1948. A ceasefire was agreed between the government and the KNU in 2012 but, to date, this has not brought about a significant reduction in militarisation in many areas. Rather, the patterns of conflict and Tatmadaw encroachment have continued. In particular, the recent increase in Tatmadaw activity is linked to road-building, the expansion of a network of military roads in northern Karen State that first began during offensives in the 1990s.
The detrimental consequences for local villagers are profound. Naw Ghay Hai is the principal of Keh Der school in Kler Lwee Htu District in the KNU 3rd Brigade area. But, as she explained, there is no benefit to the local population: only an increase in land loss and fear:
“The road being built crosses through the paddy fields of local farmers, destroying the irrigation systems in the fields, seriously affecting the livelihoods of local people. They [Tatmadaw troops] build camps nearby that are causing the displacement of local villagers, and they are shelling around nearby villages. When local people hear the sound of guns and mortars, they obviously flee out of fear, and don’t dare to return.”
The latest military incursions are now compounding a worsening pattern of land loss and displacement that has built up among the local population over several decades. According to the Committee for Internally Displaced Karen People, approximately 30,000 people have been displaced in the local area since Tatmadaw “regional clearance” operations were initiated in the 1990s. Military offensives and continuing clashes have caused a loss of shelter, a lack of access to healthcare and difficulties in delivering food supplies to displaced villagers, putting children and elderly people especially at risk. Displaced villagers now live scattered in different locations in several townships across northern Karen State.
For many communities, this is not their first experience of flight. Villagers in Keh Der village tract recently explained to staff members from KESAN, a Karen civil society organisation, that they had started to hear the distant sound of gunshots and shelling from 12 December last year. Although this initially appeared to be occurring some way from their village, everyone was worried. Then, on 11 February – ten days after the coup, Tatmadaw forces moved closer to the village and people started to flee. As the troops moved in, they destroyed the food stores of displaced farmers, seized their livestock, burnt down their houses and, in nearby areas, forced villagers to act as porters to carry supplies for them as they continued their military sweep.
For the local peoples, this latest displacement brought back many memories of sufferings in the past. Constant insecurity and the arbitrary use of force have long been a mainstay in the lives of local people in this region. Saw Lo Wah, head of Keh Der village tract, remembered first fleeing from the Tatmadaw as a child in the 1960s. Those who were captured were forced by the soldiers to work as porters, an especially pervasive and egregious abuse of human rights. As he explained:
“Many people were injured or killed when they worked as porters for the military. For example, my father stepped on a landmine when he was a porter for the Tatmadaw. This was the case for many people as the Tatmadaw used Karen villagers to sweep the area for landmines, usually at gunpoint.”
Such experiences continued into adulthood, with Saw Lo Wah describing the situation as having grown “increasingly worse” during the late 1990s:
“When the military came, one family had to flee so quickly that they were unable to take their two children from their home, and the Burmese military burnt down their house. When the family returned, the children were gone.”
This was by no means the end of local suffering. For his part, Saw Lo Wah had to build his own home on three subsequent occasions, but each time Tatmadaw troops burned it down again, with all of his family’s possessions inside.
After six decades of military-dominated rule and a new regime in power, Saw Lo Wah’s assessment is stark. But he is expressing a view of the latest military takeover that can be frequently heard among communities in different parts of the country today:
“This is the root cause of our poverty. The Tatmadaw doesn’t care if you are young or old, male or female, they will kill everybody. They spare nobody.”.....A backdrop of conflict: militarisation as a way of life: Internal military conflicts have long been central to the nation-building ambitions of the Tatmadaw in Myanmar. In a country where national identity has long been linked to a particularly “racialised” vision of ethnicity, the national armed forces have been engaged in protracted warfare with a wide range of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), amongst them the KNU, since independence from Great Britain in 1948. During these years, a simplistic vision of national politics has often pervaded popular imagination and discourse. In recent decades, this vision has been marked by the country’s democratic hero, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), who – it was hoped – were gradually leading the country on a path away from state failure and international isolationism towards democratisation and respect for human rights.
These expectations reached a pinnacle when the NLD won the 2015 general election, assuming government office the following year. Yet amidst the period of economic liberalisation that followed the 2011 shift to a nominally civilian system of government, armed conflicts have persisted in ethnic nationality areas outside of the Bamar-dominated heartlands in the centre of the country. While the army's blood-stained campaign against the Rohingya population in 2017 was the subject of much international media coverage, the Tatmadaw has also continued to carry out “anti-insurgency” campaigns against EAOs among several other nationality groups, including the Buddhist Rakhine people who also hail from Rakhine State. The cycles of conflict within the country are yet to be ended.
Many nationality peoples have been affected. Following the expulsion of over 750,000 Rohingya people, the Tatmadaw became locked in an increasingly bloody conflict with an emergent Rakhine force known as the United League of Army-Arakan Army (ULA-AA). But, after the NLD’s accession to office, the Tatmadaw also escalated military “clearance operations” forcibly displacing local populations in the Kachin, Karen and Shan States as well, severely impacting on the security and livelihoods of farming communities who depend on land for their survival.
Accurate humanitarian statistics are difficult to assemble from different parts of the country. But up to 10,000 people are believed to have died during Tatmadaw operations in the past five years, while over a million civilians are currently displaced from their homes, either living as refugees in neighbouring countries or in displacement camps in the hills. The evidence of a pervasive culture of human rights violations is deeply troubling. Today Tatmadaw actions during the events of the past few years are the focus of ongoing human rights investigations for potential war crimes by the International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice and UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar.
Finding a political language, though, that unites peoples and addresses the conflict challenges in inclusive ways has historically proven difficult. Distinctions between “state” and “non-state” actors have often been opaque within the geographic boundaries of Myanmar. Shifting alliances between the Tatmadaw, ethnic nationality forces, government-backed militias and local military strongmen have been one of the most persistent realities in defining the functioning of “State” in many parts of the country. Today over 20 EAOs remain active in different nationality lands, from Rakhine State on the Bay of Bengal to the Tanintharyi Region in Myanmar’s far south.
In this context, projections of national unity become a reflection of the complex relationship between the Tatmadaw at the political centre and the peripheries where diverse nationality peoples live in uplands surrounding the Ayeyarwady plains. Over the decades, continued exploitation of the wealth of the resource-rich borderlands has been central to the development of Myanmar state, much in the same way that the plunder of native lands, slavery and a western expansionism was central in the shaping of the American national imaginary. Much of this economy is secretive and under-reported, but Myanmar’s ethnic states are home to large mineral reserves, illicit drug production and lucrative cross-border trades from which powerful elites and outside interests – not local peoples – mostly profit.
Compounding the marginalisation of local peoples, there is often a large knowledge gap in the outside world about the harsh living conditions in the country’s conflict zones. Such a lack of understanding is a constant source of frustration for ethnic nationality peoples trying to make common cause with their fellow countryman, yet find themselves stymied by urban-rural differences as well as ethnic, religious and linguistic divides. Even many well-informed urban Burmese only have a limited grasp of what is happening in the hills. The same lack of awareness exists in the international community, where the confusing array of armed groups poses significant barriers for foreign journalists, policy-makers and other outside actors who seek to understand some of the longest-running conflicts in modern Asian history.
For this reason, the failure of Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD leadership to address conflict and the grievances of non-Bamar peoples remains one of the party’s most notable failures during its time in government office. The 2015 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), which the NLD-led administration inherited from its quasi-civilian predecessor, was a cornerstone in a faltering peace process that not only failed to include a majority of the strongest EAOs in the country but was also one in which the none of three words in its title could be said to be true: i.e. it was not nationwide, a ceasefire or an agreement.
To try and pick up the political momentum, the NLD inaugurated a 21st Century Panglong Conference in August 2016 with a promise to re-energise the peace process. But the government never acknowledged the NCA’s many failings. The NCA’s largest signatories in terms of EAO combatants – the KNU and Restoration Council of Shan State – could hardly be seen to be representative of the entire country and both continued to clash with the Tatmadaw. At the same time, most of the eight other EAOs that signed the NCA were significantly smaller, some of which had never seriously fought with the government while others, notably the Chin National Front, had not had protracted clashes with the Tatmadaw since the early 1990s.
Equally damaging to the credibility of the NCA, there were powerful and well-organised EAOs in the north of the country that were either not allowed by the Tatmadaw to join the accord or decided to boycott the process altogether. Pre-eminent EAOs which never joined the NCA include the United Wa State Party and Shan State Progress Party which have formal ceasefires with the government, and the Kachin Independence Organisation, Ta’ang National Liberation Army and ULA-AA that do not.
The ethno-political landscape is now highly uncertain. Following the coup, the NCA EAO-signatories collectively issued a statement on 20 February refusing to recognise the new regime as a legitimate power, and leading to a cessation of further talks. This represents a de facto breakdown in a ceasefire which, since its inception, had given little assurances to NCA signatories that the Myanmar armed forces would hold true to their word. For ceasefire EAOs, this represents a dilemma. According to Lt-Col. Saw La Shwe Hai from the KNU’s armed wing, Tatmadaw officers claim to follow the NCA codes of conduct and that they will try to resolve issues through political dialogue, but they do not follow through in practice:
“Instead they try and control more territory, build roads and further infrastructure and keep sending more reinforcements… They are trying to gradually control our area, bit by bit, but pretend they are following agreements… they couldn’t be lying any more”.
For ethnic nationality communities in the conflict-zones, such experiences are hardly new. But there is evidence that the scale of human rights violations across the country since the SAC’s seizure of power is bringing about a change in attitudes among the Bamar-majority population as well. Amidst the protests in the cities, incidents are being documented that the Myanmar military has been looting shops and houses, stealing food from street vendors and taking livestock from markets. Understanding the reality of such violence from the perspective of those living in the ethnic states and borderlands sheds light on the nature of the ethnocratic state-building policies of governments since independence and the ideology of the Tatmadaw.
Echoing this, a vocal minority of Bamar people have begun apologising for failing to stand behind ethnic peoples as they faced persecution. A female activist, who asked to remain anonymous, explained that “the intimidation, harassment and violence by the police and soldiers are nothing new” but that the “the violence and oppression has now been extended to the cities”. She continued:
“We are not even experiencing the brutality of the military yet in the cities, like those people in Rakhine experienced every day and every night. Those in Kachin. Those in Karen. Those in Shan. Now we too have to defend ourselves.”.....Conclusion: As the military coup enters its second month, people across the country are increasingly faced with the striking parallels between the ongoing indiscriminate use of force, intimidation and suppression against anti-coup protestors and civilians in the towns and the military’s historical and ongoing systematic brutality in Myanmar’s ethnically diverse borderlands. For populations in these areas, this has long been part of their lived experience. But for many young Bamar people in the cities, a growing awareness of this offers important lessons for a country coming to grips with the reinstatement of a military dictatorship amidst longstanding ethnic strife.
Such sentiments are not only rising in urban areas. Much of Myanmar’s largely rural population have also long faced the brunt of military-enabled land confiscations and repressive practices, keeping the majority of the population in poverty. As journalist and author Carlos Sardiña Galache succinctly put it:
“The Tatmadaw has always portrayed itself as the only institution capable of preserving Burma's unity, and this coup is proving the point in an unintended way: virtually the whole country seems to be united in rejecting the coup and the Tatmadaw itself.”
Now that these diverse groups are coming together, new alliances are beginning to emerge amidst the chaos. Although Myanmar’s future remains far from certain, the coup has created circumstances through which people in towns and cities across the country can better empathise with the long-suffering plight of residents of the war-torn lands inhabited by the Karens and other ethnic nationality peoples.
Written in collaboration with members of the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) conducting on the ground interviews..."
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"As of 10 June, (860) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Meiktila Township in Mandalay Region and Yinmabin Township in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of 10 June, a total of (4804) people are currently under detention; of them (173) are sentenced. 1936 have been issued arrest warrants; of them 31 were sentenced to death and 14 to three years imprisonment with hard labour, 39 to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour and 5 to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour, who are evading arrest. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
On the night of 9 June, a teacher involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and who participated in the Amarapura Strike, was arrested in Amarapura Township, Mandalay Region by the terrorist junta. Two poets, Maung Yu Paing and Nayi Myeik (a.k.a Lwin Aung, the lawyer), activist Tin Ko Ko Oo, NLD Township executive member Soe Linn, who were living in Myeik Township, Tanintharyi Region were charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code and sentenced to two years imprisonment on on 9 June, apart from Maung Yu Paing sentenced on 8 June.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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