March 2001
Mergui-Tavoy District Information Department
Karen National
According to a deserted
porter, on
1. U Win Aung, 52 yr. son of U Than
Naing and Daw Khin Thin from Thabyechaung,
2. U Mya, 51 yr., son of U Mya Maung and Daw Yin Ywa, from Thabyechaung, Theyetchaung Township, Tavoy
District.
On
On
On
A group of 20 villagers returned to their village in Thayetchaung
township, Tavoy district
after they have worked in a Thai village in Tong Pha Phum district, Kanchanaburi
province. When they arrived to a
On March 2, 2001 villagers from Pawdaw, Htooler and in the neighborhood villages in the east of Theyetchaung township were forced by Burma Army to carried
170 sacks of rice (1 sack = 50 kgm) from Pawdaw to Kantawni village. There
is two days walk form Pawdaw to Kantawni
village.
Thousands of civilians continued were forced as porter
for military food stockpiling
In
1. Tagu village tract 319
persons
3. Pawat village tract 148
persons
4. Taket village tract 145
persons
6. Villagers
living outside Tenasserim town 96 persons
7. Nyaungbingwin village tract 106 persons.
The porters have to carry military food supplies and
ammunition to frontline military camps in the east, along Thai-Burma border and
Tenasserim Riverside.
Burma Army still forced thousands of civilians to carry
their food supplies for six months stock to their Thai border outpost camps for
coming raining season.
It was learnt that from the beginning of February and up
to now, Burma Army are stock piling food for their camps along the Thai border
in Tenasserim division. In
Burma Army had planned to finish their food stockpile in
February, but did not finish implementing it. So they resumed in March. Started
on
According to our field reporter from February and up to
this date, at least one thousand villagers from seven village tracks in some
parts of
1. Tagu
village tract 319
persons
2. Ta Po village tract 297
persons
3. Pawat
village tract 148
persons
4. Taket
village tract 145
persons
5. Ban Law village tract 166 persons
6. Villagers living
outside Tenasserim town 96 persons
7. Nyaungbingwin
village tract 106
persons.
Totally 1277 persons were
forced to carry military food supplies for more than a moth and so far.
Burma Army forced at least 10,000 people as porter every
month in Tenasserim division. The porters have to
carry military food supplies and ammunition to frontline military camps in the
east, along Thai-Burma border and Tenasserim
Riverside.
Without porter,
Ten Thousand of civilians
were forced to be porter, monthly.
Burmese troops captured 110 villagers from Nyaungbingwin village, and 80
villagers from Shwekyingon village.
According to a porter who escaped to the Thai-Burma
border, a porter died of exhausted while were forced by Burma Army. U Ba Han, a prisoner and other porters were forced to carry
military supply from Maw Hta to Min Htine Hta in
The Burma Army used to use two kinds of forced portering.
One is call 'Won Htan' (villagers) and 'Won Hsaung Taat Tha' (prisoner).
At the same time, on
Burma Army forced at
least 10,000 people as porter every month in Tenasserim
division. The porters have to carry military food supplies and ammunition to
frontline military camps in the east, along Thai border and Tenasserim
Riverside.