CIVILIAN TORTURED AND KILLED DURING MILITARY
OFFENSIVE
(Kao Wao and IMNA report:
Ye – Civilians are abducted and
killed by the Burmese Army during military operation against guerrillas in
southern
According
to the witness, 19 villagers including Buddhist monks and village headmen were
arrested for interrogation three days ago.
Being accused as supporters of the Mon guerrilla group, those arrested
were ordered to sit in the sun, beaten and tortured by the Burmese Army
Regiment No. 22 led by Colonel Nyi Nyi Swe.
Local source reported, the Pa-An
based Regiment No. 22 of Southeast Military Command took civilians and made
them march in front of army when they launched the offensive against the Mon
armed group led by Nai Hloin,
Nai Bin and San She.
The
Burmese troops severely tortured 2 Buddhist monks, the abbot of Krein Kanyeh and Khawza PhaeDay monasteries while
they were beaten and their legs being burned for questioning.
According to a refugee who
recently arrived at the Thai-Burma border, over 40 civilians were arrested and
5 villagers were killed during the brutal military operation.
Since the area is defined as the
black area, the BA restricts movements of civilians to block off alleged
support for the rebels and villagers were prohibited going out at night from
A 25 year old son of Nai Pe from Hangan
village was killed near Hangan village due to the
curfew imposed by the army; and on December 23, Nai KaoChan (19 years old) from Yang Dong village was shot to
death in his farm near the village.
On December 20, a former medic of
the New Mon State Party Nai Norn
Ong and other member Nai A-zan were taken from their houses and killed by the army
after investigation. Another victim Nai Zit (age 40), a hunter from Hangan
village, was also being shot and killed.
The
front line operation office of about a thousand troops was led by Colonel Nyi Nyi Swe and stationed at Khawzar village, southern Ye
township since in early December.
After
the New Mon State Party reached a cease-fire with the ruling military junta in
1995, a former NMSP member Nai Hloin
split from the Party and resumes fighting against the BA in the rural areas of
southern
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