The summery or arbitrary execution of individuals in SPDC controlled Burma continues to be one of the most gruesome and obvious evidences of the gross violations of human rights violations committed in the country. In 2000 there continued to be numerous reports of summery or arbitrary execution of civilians, especially in the border areas of armed conflict. The military officers and rank and file soldiers of the SPDC army battalions, leaders and members of the SPDC endorsed people’s militias ("pyi thu sit"), and other SPDC officials including MI, Police and USDA officials were the perpetrators of these crimes. This clearly shows SPDC’s complete disregard for the human rights and humanitarian law treaties it has signed.

Many arbitrary executions are carried out in line with SPDC’s "Four-Cuts" policy, which is practiced in the areas of armed ethnic conflict against the ethnic minority villagers. According to this policy, the SPDC army has aimed to cut support to the opposition through mass relocations of villagers to areas under army control, and through detaining, torturing and executing villagers and village elders and leaders considered to have any contact with the opposition. Villagers found outside of SPDC controlled areas, including villagers in hiding from the army, and villagers outside of forced relocation sites are often assumed to be rebels or rebel supporters. Indeed, accusing a villager of being a rebel soldier, a relative of a rebel soldier, or helping rebel soldiers in any way is a blanket accusation punishable by death; the implicit SPDC threat to other villagers is to renounce suspected rebels before innocent villagers pay the price for their subversion. Villagers in resistance areas fear traveling outside their village for any reason, especially to tend their hill fields in the jungle, because they risk discovery by SPDC troops on patrol and the inevitable accusation of rebel activity. Villagers seen outside of SPDC controlled areas or villages are often shot on sight by patrolling troops without any kind of warning. As most accusations of rebel association are unfounded, this system can be used to execute almost anyone; for example, woman found in a village without their husbands are often accused of being ‘married to a rebel soldier’. Villagers can also be executed for simply carrying food in areas outside SPDC control, as the army assumes that the food is to supply rebel troops.

The SPDC often orders the army battalions to hunt down and kill villagers in hiding as well, during "Search and Destroy" operations. In 2000 many such IDPs in hiding were discovered and summarily executed.

The case number of arbitrary and summery executions is high. For the year 2000 the HRDU compiled reports of over 600 individuals who had been arbitrarily or summarily executed by personnel associated with the SPDC. This number includes 16 individuals who were executed by, or after torture, 25 women who were executed following rape or gang-rape, and 62 individuals who were executed while being forced to porter or labor for the military. These numbers are low and do not indicate the actual number of people who were summarily or arbitrarily executed by SPDC personnel, as this number is the reported incidents as compiled by the HRDU. It can be affirmed that many more such incidents occurred in the year 2000 which were not known of or reported. It is horrifying to note that these numbers are only indicative of how serious the problem is in Burma under SPDC control.

There were major massacres of displaced people which occurred in the Shan State in 2000. On January 30, a group of villagers were returning to their village in Keng Kham village tract with permission and passes from IB 246 in Kun Hing relocation site when they were stopped by an SPDC patrol from IB 66. Nineteen people were executed, including three women. On February 12, a group of 20 male villagers from Kun Pu village tract who had been living in hiding in the forest were spotted by a patrol from IB 246, and all 20 of them were executed; the same patrol later killed five women and children who were hiding in a nearby hut. On March 27, 2000, 13 relocated farmers, 8 men and 5 women, were shot dead by a column of 80-90 troops from Company No.5 of LIB514, under the command of Capt., Pan Aung. They were surrounded and gunned down without any questions or warnings as they were clearing a plot of land for growing rice near Murng-Kern town.

Then on May 23, 2000, a column of 90-100 SPDC troops from IB 246 led by Capt. Htun Aung rounded up 64 displaced people, including men, women and children of all ages, working in the rice and sesame fields near the deserted village of Hueypu, Hsaimong Tract, Kunhing Township and executed all of them. An estimated 40-50 other people were reportedly also killed in the area by the same troops around the time of the May massacre.

Summary executions also took place in the course of capturing villagers for the purpose of forced labor and portering, or during the villagers’ forced labor and portering duties. When porters attempt escape or can longer work due to over-exhaustion or illnesses, they are nearly always beaten and often killed or abandoned in the jungle without food and medicine. In the case of prisoner labor and prisoner porter duty death rates are high and many such cases were reported in 2000. Escapees of prison labor camps have reported death rates as high as 4 people per day. According to one former prisoner who escaped a prison labor camp,

"Many prisoners died- at least four or five prisoners died every day. The bodies of the dead couldn’t be buried well and their legs and hands showed above ground. When we had to bury a body, we could see other bodies buried everywhere, so we had to bury them on top of each other."

This subject is covered more extensively in the chapter on forced labor, and a list of incidents of deaths due to forced labor and porter duty is included in that chapter.

Women are commonly killed by soldiers after being raped, for fear that survivors of these double crimes will report or publicize the sexual assaults. A list of the women who were reported to have been killed after rape can be found in the chapter on women,

Torture is widespread in Burma and affects many people who are legitimately or arbitrarily arrested and detained by SPDC or SPDC aligned individuals. Political and convict prisoners, and those suspected of having contact with the armed ethnic opposition are routinely captured and tortured. Often the torturers are so severe in their methods that death, intentional or occasionally accidental results. Other times, after the interrogators/torturers have learned everything they desire to know, or have given up the interrogation/torture, they proceed to kill the victim. More information, as well as a list of incidents of torture leading to death in 2000 is included in the chapter on torture.

In addition to the death of prisoners in prison labor camps and in the front lines as porters, there are also cases where prisoners have died in jail as a result of the poor prison conditions in Burma. This is covered more extensively in the chapter on arbitrary arrest and detention.

On May 17 2000, Lance Corporal Soe Wai and Privates Aung Ko Oo and Myint Thu from LIB 280 based in Zayetni, Tavoy Township fled along with three G-3 rifles because they could no longer tolerate the abuse by their superiors. Lance Corporal Soe Wai and Pvt. Aung Ko were killed during a prolonged clash with soldiers from their battalion who pursued them, and Myint Thu, who was wounded, was captured. Later, he was shot dead on the spot by the SPDC troops. (Source: DVB)

On January 1, 2000, at 5:00 a.m., a column of 70-80 troops from IB66 led by Capt. Htun Mya fired at a farm hut in Kho Lam area, Nam-Zarng township, Shan State without knowing whether or not it was occupied, and shot dead Lung Aw-Zinna, m, age 45, and Naang Tha Mya, f, age 22 at a farm. The farmers were from Kho Lam relocation site. 2 other farmers, Naang Suk, f, age 25, and Zaai Su Zinta, m, age 20 were caught alive while trying to run away. They were taken with the column for 90 days, during which the soldiers beat and tortured them and raped the woman. Then Capt. Htun Mya ordered Sgt. Tin Hla and 5 troops to send them back to Kho Lam relocation site. Naang Suk died at the relocation site 5 days later from the injuries she suffered from the beating and raping by the SPDC troops. (Source: SHRF)

In the first week of Jaunary 2000, a Burmese Muslim villager, U Soe Thein, reported to the commanders of IB 202 and 203 how his village had been relocated by police inspector U Tun Kyaing. He was then arrested and shot dead by U Tun Kyaing. (Source: MICB)

On January 7, 2000, troops from IB 246 shot villagers Loong Nya Mi, age 60, and Nai Mai, age 35, from Wan Sa Harng in Wan Tong tract of Kunhing township, Shan State.(Source: TIR)

On January 7 2000, SPDC troops from IB 246 shot 2 innocent villagers to death. Loong Nya Mi, (m), age 60, and Nai Mai, (f), age 35 were from Wan Sa Harng, Wan Tong tract, Kun-hing Township, Shan State.
(Source: SSANews)

On January 7, 2000 a troop from SPDC IB 76 headed by Battalion Commander Oak Ka, shot dead Saw Po Kla, 46 during their patrol of deserted village Panwepoklo in Palaw township, Mergui district, Tenasserim Division. He had been hiding behind the village at Nya Pla Hta (Panwepoklo village tract) since the SPDC had forcibly relocated the village. (Source: KNU Mergui-Tavoy)

On January 9 2000, after the Karen New Year ceremony held in Wa-Paw village of Ye-township, about 60 troops from the Ye-township based # 299 battalion, led by Lt. Col. Aye Tun came and arrested Ko Ohn Myaing from Wa-Paw village. Lt. Col. Aye Tun accused him of having contact with the KNU, and shot him dead in front of the villagers. The Lt-Col then threatened the villagers that he would kill them all if they contacted or supported the KNU. (Source: YOMA3)

On January 13 2000, SPDC troops from Loi Kaw, Karenni State fought with one of the ethnic armed groups at a spot near Kawng Larng village, Parng Phone tract, Kesi Township, Shan State. After the fight was over, the SPDC troops went into the village and accused the villagers of failing to send messages to them and opened fire on the villagers. One of the villagers named Ai Nyo was shot dead on the spot and another villager, named Nai Ing, was wounded but escaped from the firing. The soldiers also captured a villager (name unknown) and made him follow them. (Source: SSANews)

On January 14 2000 troops from IB 246 shot and killed the village headman of Nampa Marn, Wan Phwee village tract in Kunhing township, Shan State. The deceased was identified as Loong Nya Ning, age 35, son of Loong Moo and Nai Pom. (Source: TIR, SSANews)

On January 15 2000, in the evening, SPDC troops from LIB 355, based in Law Kaw Tee, entered and shot into Lay Gay Tah village, Papun District, Karen State. Naw Gyi Paw, age 27, the mother of an infant, was killed. Ma La Win, age 58, Pi Kyaw Aye, age 70, and Naw Si Paw, age 6 were wounded. (Source: KWO)

On January 17, 2000, 4 displaced farmers were shot dead 2-1/2 miles from the town of Kun-Hing by 50-60 SPDC troops from Co.4 of IB246 led by commander Than Oo, who ordered the shooting. Before they were shot, the troops tied the villagers up, beat and tortured them, and interrogated them as to the whereabouts of Shan soldiers in the area. A local villager who was serving as an interpreter was ordered to keep silent about the incident or face severe punishment, possibly death. The victims were Loong Nya Mi (m), aged 60, Sai Pan-Ti (m), aged 47, Sai Oong (m), aged 40, and Naang Num (f), aged 25.(Source: SHRF)

On January 19 2000, troops of LIB 516 entered Kayeh Kee village, Karenni State and killed an innocent family. Saw Tatee, 37, his wife who was five months pregnant and their two children had tried to escape, but the troops recaptured them and killed them all with a paddy pestle. (Source: KNAHR)

On January 19, 2000, Kya Pa (m), aged 31, Kya Po (m), aged 28, and Kya Ha (m), aged 49, all Lahu villagers of Waeng Long village, Murng yarng tract, Murng-Yarng township, Shan State were shot dead by SPDC troops from Co.2 of IB 279 at Waeng Long village. (Source: SHRF)

On January 19 2000, a company of troops from LIB 516 entered Kayeh Kee village, Lopwakoe province, Karenni Sate at 10:12 am and suddenly opened fire on the village. Due to the raid, villager Saw Dah Tee was killed and Saw Htoo Hae was wounded. In addition, before leaving, the Burmese troops set fire to the village. (Source: KNAHR)

On January 24, 2000, 30 SPDC troops of Co.3 of IB66 led by Capt. Khin Maung Win accused a villager of setting fire to the market place and shot him dead in the military camp at Kho Lam village, Nam-Zarng township. The victim was interrogated and tortured for some time before being shot. The troops searched his house and took away 14,600 kyat of money, 4 baht weight of gold ornaments, a cow worth 3,600 kyat and 1 tape-recorder worth 5,000 kyat. (Source: SHRF)

On January 26 2000, Kyint Maung, 41, and Ai Tun, 43, villagers of Linphon, Karenni State were killed by troops from LIB 516. They were killed in retaliation for a battle which had occurred earlier that month near their village between the Karenni forces and LIB 516. The troops of LIB 516 continued to round up villagers in the vicinity of Linphon in order to search for more people who they suspected to be involved in supporting Karenni forces, and arrested tortured and detained another 21 villagers the following day. (Source: KNAHR)

On January 28 2000, a patrol from IB 332 killed Loong Nar Ling, (m), age 45, a villager of Wan Kung Teng, Wan Nong tract, Mong Nai Township. He was shot at a place north of Wan Yod, Wan Nong tract and then robbed of 23,000 kyats and his belongings. (Source: SSANews)

On January 30, 2000, 19 relocated villagers, who were given permission to return to their former village of Kaeng Kham by the local SPDC military authorities (Kun-Hing-based IB246, led by Col. Kyaw Aye), were killed by SPDC troops from Nam-Zarng-based IB66 led by Capt. Zaw Thein, at Kaeng Kham village, Kun-Hing township. The villagers had paid 50 kyat each for their passes to leave the relocation site. They were clearing a part of their old village, which had virtually turned into jungle, when the column of about 85-90 SPDC troops, with 40 forced civilian porters, saw the villagers clearing the deserted village, and then surrounded and shot them. The SPDC troops claimed that they had shot at a group of rebels. (Note: Another witness stated that the troops surrounded, arrested and interrogated the villagers even after they showed the pass to them, and eventually shot all of them dead)
(Source: SHRF)

On February 2, 2000, a group of SPDC and DKBA officers led by Captain Na Khan Mhwe and Captain Rambo arrested five Muslim villagers {(1) Siddiq Meah, age 35 (2) Salim, age 20 (3) Abdul, age 25 (4) Suleiman, age 23 and (5) Soe Naing, age 25} of Khwet Phoe Village, Hlaing Bwe Township, Karen State. They accused the 5 men of having contact with insurgents and brought them to their army camp and shot them dead there at about

8.00 P.M. the same day. The families of the deceased and some villagers left the village for refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. (Source: MICB)

On February 6, 2000, a patrol from IB 246 shot and killed Loong Phaw Ka, age 40, a villager of Wan Pang Inn, Weing Phwee tract, Kunhing Township, Shan State. Loong Phaw Ka is survived by his wife, Nang Khong. (Source: KNU Mergui-Tavoy, SSANews)

On February 8 2000, Khu Soe Reh, 20, of Daw Tamadu village, Deemaw Soe Township, Karenni State was killed outside the village by a unit of IB No. 72 which was encamped in his village. He was shot on sight at 06:30 AM while on his way to the paddy field.(Source: KNAHR)

On February 10, 2000, a patrol of 7 SPDC troops from Co.3 of LIB316, led by Lt. Myint Oo, shot at 2 villagers from Nam Kai village at a place between Kaw Kaw and Wan Laan villages in Pa Leo tract, Ta-Khi-Laek township, killing one and wounding the other. The 2 villagers were shot, without any warning, while walking in opposite directions on the same trail. The 2 victims were: - Zai Teet (m), aged 20, from Nam Kai village, Pa Leo tract, was killed instantly - Zai Lao (m), aged 19, from Nam Kai village, Pa Leo tract, was wounded in the left shoulder (Source: SHRF)

On February 10 2000, a SPDC troop operating in the Naw Ter Hkee area, east of Tenasserim River, shot dead a female villager hiding in the jungle. The victim was Naw Blah, age 20, whose original village was Klot Ta Kwat (Kyauktakwa) in Theyetchaung Township, Tavoy district, Tenasserim Division. (Source: TIR)

On February 12, 2000, 20 male villagers were massacred by a column of about 80-90 SPDC troops from IB246, in Kun Pu tract, Kun-Hing Township led by Capt. Hla Khin. These villagers were among those who had been forcibly displaced a few years ago by the SLORC/SPDC troops and had been in hiding since then, trying to survive by secretly growing small plots of rice and foraging for wild vegetables, game and fish. On the day of the incident the villagers were conducting an annual respect-paying rite at the altar of a territorial guardian spirit at Loi-maak-hin-taang. After the massacre, the troops ate all the food they found among the offerings and continued to patrol the area. Later the same day they shot dead another 5 women and children who were hiding in a makeshift hut in a forest in the area. Their names were: Mae Thao Mya (f), aged 65, Naang Kya Yong (f), aged 37 (wife of Lung Saw of Paang Khaa village who was killed earlier in the group of 20), Naang Awng (f), aged 18, Zaai La Khin (m), aged 15, and Zaai Thun (m), aged 11.

The following is the list of the names of the 20 male victims and their original villages:

(Source: SHRF)

On February 15, 2000, Soe Aye and Po Nee, members of the SPDC guerilla unit led by Captain Maung Maung, came to Nga-lauk-tet village, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State and arrested villagers Saw Thay Ko Htoo and Saw Htoo Baw. On February 16, 2000, they executed the 2 villagers by cutting off their heads. (Source: KIC)

On February 27 2000, combined troop from SPDC LIB 560 and 589 led by Nay Linn Soe and Se Sein entered Keh Chaung village in Tenasserim Township, Mergui district, Tenasserim Division and summoned all the villagers. They accused them of killing one of their officers from LIB 560 on February 25. The officer had, in fact, been killed by 4 soldiers from LIB 560. They interrogated all the villages and later arrested two villagers: Saw Ba Saw, age 60, and Saw Ya Kyaw, age 40, the son of Saw Kya Din, and killed them both. (Source: TIR)

On February 29, 2000 LIB 560, 589 killed five villagers at Ba Kwa Hkee in Tenasserim township, Mergui district, Tenasserim Division during their operation to search-kill and destroy hiding villagers (IDPs). The victims are:

1. Saw Ka Shwe Yin, 30 yr., son of Saw Pleh Waw

2. Naw Paw Dee, 30 yr., daughter of Saw Aung Sein

3. Pee Haw Po, 50yr.

4. Saw Tin Htun Aung, son of U Shwe Than

5. Saw Kay Thaw, around 30

(Source: TIR)

On March 1 2000, LIB 560 and 589 arrived to an IDPs hiding site in the Manorone village area, Tenasserim Township, Tenasserim Division, and killed 2 villagers, whose names were still unknown at the end of March 2000. (Source: TIR)

On March 9 2000, troops from LIB 376 headed by Major Kyaw Shwe, executed three villagers at Hsa Mu Taw village, located on the banks of the Tenasserim River in the east of Tavoy township, Tenasserim Division. The troops captured and killed the villagers after they found them in the deserted village of Hsa Mu Taw, which had been forcibly relocated to Myitta village in 1997. The villagers had been hiding from the relocation site. They were:

1. Saw Hto Kee Say, 17 years, son of Saw Hla Shwe, Seiku villager.

2. Saw Hto Tay, 37 years, son of Pu Ni Plo, Hsa Mu Taw villager.

3. Saw Bo Lu, 40 years, son of Pu Ni Plo, Has Mu Taw villager. (Source: TIR)

On March 10 2000, about 6 AM, a patrol from IB 120 based in Mong Yong killed an innocent villager of Wan Loi Lomp, Kho Ood tract, Mong Nai Township, Shan State. The victim was an ethnic Palaung named Paw Sarng La, age 22. (Source: SSANews)

In the evening of March 13 2000, IB 495, which was patrolling between Au-Tu and Ka-Zee villages in Thaya-Chaun Township, Tenasserim Division, killed 2 villagers without asking any questions. The two villagers U Tin Ngae and U Ngaw Aye Kyaw were from Ka-Zee village and had been fishing and hunting between the two villages. The troops assumed that the two men were members of an opposition group and killed them. However, there are no opposition groups which operate in this area, and the villagers were only 20 miles out of Thaya-Chaun Town. (Source: THRF)

On March 13, 2000, troops from SPDC LIB 14 came upon villagers near Au-po-hta village, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State, carrying paddy to their hiding place. The troops shot at the villagers, killing Naw Eh Moo (F, 40) daughter of Saw Pa Hsay. The rest escaped by running away, dropping the paddy they were carrying. On the same day, the troops destroyed by burning 50 rice fields of Au-mee-hta and Au-po-hta village. (Source: KIC)

On March 13, 2000, troops from LIB 6 came to Maw khee village, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State, and randomly shot at villagers, killing Saw Ko Maung (M, 70), from U-po-kee village and Naw Dah Dah (F, 15), daughter of Saw Ta Lay of Maw-khee village. Two women and an infant were wounded. In addition the troops looted various items from the villagers. (Source: KIC)

On March 15, 2000, at about 13:00 hours, SPDC troops fired on the villagers hiding in a place between Per and Ler-klo farms, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State, killing Naw Hgay (F, 32), wife of Maung Tin Tin of Tu-lay-soe village. Her daughter Has Ku Pa, 4 years old, has since then been disappeared. (Source: KIC)

On March 17 2000, Eid ul Adha day (sacrificing day of Islam), two Muslims were stabbed to death by seven members of USDA, a pro-SPDC organization. The two, carrying beef, were about to enter their home when seven USDA members led by U Sein Han, 36 attacked them. The victims, U Soe Naing, 28 and his brother U Ar Nu, 24 lived in Thaketa (A) block, Rangoon and the USDA members also lived in the same block. The matter was reported to the authorities, but no action has yet been taken against them. (Source: MICB)

On March 25 2000, at 9:20 AM, a combined troop of soldiers from IB 30 and LIB 350 shot and killed 2 villagers from Htee Law Plo Day village, Nyaunglebin District, Mone Township, Karen State. After the troops killed Saw Kya Po, age 65, and Naw Bu Gay, age 76, they burnt down their houses. (Source: TIR)

On March 27, 2000, 13 relocated farmers, 8 men and 5 women, were shot dead by a column of 80-90 troops from Company No.5 of LIB514, under the command of Capt, Pan Aung. They were surrounded and gunned down without any questions or warnings as they were clearing a plot of land for growing rice near Murng-Kern town. The farmers were originally from Yaang Loi village, Yaang Loi tract, Murng-Kerng township, Shan State and had been forced to relocate to the outskirts of Murng-Kerng town by SLORC/SPDC troops in 1997-1998 (Source: SHRF)

On March 27, 2000, a Loi-La man, Ai Lao, aged 28, of Kui Nam Ngaw village was accused of stealing a cow and beaten to death near his village in Huay Pha tract, Murng-Yawn township, by SPDC troops of Company No. 2 from LIB334, who were stationed at the bridge on Nam Luay river. After they had killed Ai Lao, the troops went to the village headman of Kui Nam Ngaw village and threatened the villagers that anyone else who stole a "military" cow would be beaten to death like Ai Lao, then they immediately left the village. (Source: SHRF)

On March 27 2000, at 4 PM, 95 soldiers of IB 336 captured and killed 2 innocent villagers without trial. San Ta Ling, age 38 and Sai Wisa, age 31 were villagers of Wan Pha Sont, Loi La tract, Mong Nai Township, Shan State. (Source: SSANews)

On March 29, 2000, an unidentified SPDC troop killed a villager as part of their operation to search, kill, and destroy the villagers hiding in the jungle at Gaw Pe Plaw, in the Tenasserim Riverside area, Tenasserim Division. Saw Pla Ko, age 36, was found in this area and shot on sight. (Source: TIR)

On April 2, 2000, SPDC troops from IB 246 led by Capt. Aung Htay saw 5 people working in a farm at a remote spot near an old village of Naa Hawng, in Wan Lao tract, KunHing Township, Shan State. Without warning, the troops opened fire on the villagers. 2 men, Zaai Aw, age 25 and Zaai Mon, age 23 and 2 women, Naang Kui, age 24, and Naang Awng, age 21 were instantly killed. The other, Zaai Zitta, managed to run away, but received a fractured skull from falling down while running. After they killed the farmers, the troops looted their makeshift camp Source: SHRF)

On April 4, 2000, a column of about 170 SPDC troops from IB 72, from Loi Kaw township in Karenni State, led by Maj. Aung Win, killed 3 displaced farmers from the Kun-Hing relocation site and burned their camps and granaries 2-1/2 miles south of Kun-Hing town, Kun-Hing township, Shan State. The farmers had been trying to grow crops at an area somewhat distant from the site, as there was no farmland near the site. Lung Sara Wi (m), aged 62, was hit with a bullet in the head before he could run and was instantly killed. Lung Na-Ling (m), aged 35, was wounded in his upper right thigh while running away and died before he could reach his house Zaai Zit-Ta (m), aged 21, son of Lung Sara Wi, was caught alive by the troops and beaten to death on the farm (Source: SHRF)

On April 6 2000, a troop from LIB 539 under controlled of 1st Tactical Command, Operation Control HeadQuarters 9, while operating in the outskirts of Kaw Htee Lor (Thamyuchang) village, in Tavoy Township, Tenasserim Division captured 4 villagers who had been hiding from the military in the jungle. The troops killed all of them, and afterward confiscated their two baskets (1 basket = 21 kegs) of rice and 30,000 kyat cash. (Source: KNU Mergui-Tavoy)

On April 8 2000, Three Karenni hideout dwellers (IDPs) from Klaw Tuleh, Hsoe Tasha district, Karenni State were found and killed by troops of LIB 66. They encountered the Burmese troops at May Yu Stream and were immediately shot dead. The killed persons were Soe Reh, 18, Koe Reh, 20 and Saw Reh, 17. (Source: KNAHR)

On April 13 2000, a Muslim cattle trader, Mr. Mali Meah, along with his 5 workers was stopped at a checkpoint during their journey to purchase cattle in Nyaunglebin Township, Pegu Division. SPDC authorities at the checkpoint, led by Lt. Tin Tun Oo robbed Mr. Mali Meah of 1.7 million kyat and then shot him to death. Two of the workers, who were Muslim were detained for at least 2 weeks, and their families feared their lives, the other 3 non-Muslim workers were released. (Source: MICB)

On April 18 2000, SPDC troops entered Day Paw Plaw area, Papun District, Karen State and shot indiscriminately. Naw Dah Dah, age 13, and Naw Yway Htee, age 42, were killed. (Source: KWO)

On April 21 2000, SPDC and DKBA soldiers led by Lt. Saw Kaw of DKBA arrested two Muslim fishermen, Mr. Mohammad and Mr. Nor Uddin. The men were accused of having contact with the KNU, shot to death, and then their bodies were thrown in the river. The troops were from the Taw Lay Hta SPDC and DKBA camps in Papun District, Karen State adjacent to Mae Sam Lat, Mae Sarieng District, Mae Hong Son province of Thailand. (Source: MICB)

On April 28, 2000, between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m., 3 SPDC troops from IB227 shot dead Zaai Khe, male, aged 26, as he was returning from hunting near his village, Nam Maw, in Nam Yaang Long tract, Murng-Khark township. The troops shot at him without warning or asking any questions. After shooting Zaai Khe, the SPDC troops went into Nam Maw village and told the village headman that they had shot a rebel, they didn’t know from which group, and that he was lying at the head of their village for them to bury. After the troops left, the village headman and some villagers went right away to the site of the incident only to find an innocent fellow villager, Zaai Khe, who had gone out to hunt that morning, lying dead in a pool of blood. (Source: SHRF)

On April 29, 2000, at Htee-nya-moe-klo place, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State, troops from SPDC IB 54 shot to death, with out reason, Par Hgaw Hkeh, 35, of Naw Po Lah of Ler-wah village. (Source: KIC)

On April 29 2000, LIB 560, led by Thein Kyaw Moe, killed, without reason, Naw Nu Yee, age 21, the daughter of Saw Kya Dee, and Naw May Aye of Kya-Chaung place, Merqui-Tavoy District, Tenasserim Division. (Source: KWO)

On May 1 2000, U Kadir, age 25, Soe Myint, age 20 (both of Myin Zee village) and Mae Tee, age 22 of Tha Kwet Poe village were accused of contacting the KNU and shot to death by Bo MoJo of DKBA. They had been summoned to a meeting in Tha Kwet Poe village, Pa-an District, Karen State by the Commander along with other villagers. After the commander threatened the villagers to abide by the laws or meet the same fate.
(Source: MICB)

On May 4, 2000, troops from SPDC L1B 383 came to Poe-po-kee village, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State, and shot to death, without reason, villager Saw Kalaw, M, age 55. (Source: KIC)

On May 4, 2000, a group of 15 men from SPDC People’s Militia of Pawat Htee Hta village, led by Kyaw Moe, came to Pawat Plaw Pataw area in Tenasserim Township, Tenasserim Division, and shot indiscriminately at villagers Naw Ma Aye and her husband who were picking wild vegetables. Naw Ma Aye, age 35, the mother of a young child, was killed instantly. The villagers were among those who had been relocated to the Pawat Plaw Pataw relocation site in 1996, and were shot because they had been found outside of the relocation site. (Source: KIC, KWO, TIR)

On May 9 2000, a Burmese patrol from LIB 377, under the command of Operational Commanding HeadQuarter’s No.1 Tactical command # 9, met a Karen family while patrolling the surrounding area of their Tactical Command Headquarters. Spotting the family 500 yards from the headquarter as the family was heading to work on their rice field, the troops accused the family of attempting to supply food to the rebels and killed all of them on the spot. The family was from the village of Kataungni where the No.1 Tactical command had set up its headquarter in the east of Tavoy Township. The victims were:

(1) Saw Wah Htoo, 25 years: Son of Saw Sanet
(2) Naw Spider, 20 years: Wife of Saw Wah Htoo, who was 4 months pregnant.
(3) Saw John, 3 years: son of Saw Wah Htoo.
(4) Saw Joy, 2 years: son of Saw Wah Htoo.

They were shot to death and abandoned on the footpath to their plantation. Though knowing that the family was killed and abandoned on the path, their relatives from the Kataungni village were afraid to retrieve the bodies because of the Burmese soldiers. (Source: TIR)

On May 11, 2000, two Lahu men on their way back from selling chickens at the market in Kaeng-Tung, Shan State saw SPDC troops from IB 225 coming towards them. Fearing that the troops would rob their hard-earned money, the men started to run away. The troops shouted for them to stop, and shot their guns into the air. Kya Pa, age 40 stopped while his friend ran into the forest. The troops then beat Kya Pa, tied him up, robbed him of his newly earned money, and then released him and told him to run away. When he did, they shot him dead on the bank of the Nam Khawn River. (Source: SHRF)

On May 14 2000, 2 Muslim villagers were shot to death by SPDC troops when they went back to collect hidden belongings near their old village. Their village, Zarthabyin, in Pa-an Township, Karen State had been destroyed on April 4 2000 to make way for an army pig farm. (Source: MICB)

On May 19, 2000, a patrol of 12 SPDC troops from LIB 334 stopped and searched 3 Akha villagers who were returning from their farm near their village, Ho La, in Tong Noi tract, Murng-Yawng township, Shan State. As the soldiers were aiming their guns at them, Aa Zer, male, age 46, was so terrified that he tried to run away and was shot dead on the spot. The troops continued to search the 2 remaining women and when they found nothing illegal or unusual after searching the women and their baskets, the troops beat and kicked them so hard that they fell down, and then the troops left. (Source: SHRF)

On May 21, 2000, SPDC troops from Loi Kaw, Karenni State captured an old villager named Loong Wi Lar Sa at Wan U Marng, Parng Phone tract, Kesi township, Shan State. This old man had served the SPDC troops by gathering porters to carry supplies for them and he himself was also captured by the SPDC as a porter once but he escaped. The SPDC troops accused him of having connections with the SSA and supporting the SSA, and shot him dead the next day, May 22. (Source: SSANews)

On May 22 2000, SPDC officers led by Sgt. Hla Moe of a military camp between Pa-an Township, Karen State and Bilin Township, Mon State under the command of Bilin Strategic office extorted 150,000 kyat from 3 Muslim cattlemen before allowing them to drive their 45 oxen towards the Thai-Burma border. Soon after, the 3 men, 1) U Han Tha, age 28, 2) U Imam, age 26, and 3) U Win Naing, age 34 were shot and killed by the same troops and all their oxen seized. (Source: MICB)

On May 22 2000, SPDC and DKBA officers led by Lt. Bo Myint entered Minzi village, Pa-an township and began to search and loot houses. Two Muslim villagers, Maung Tun Kyaw, age 28 and Maung Than Win, age 30 who had been former SPDC army personnel, requested that the officers not harass the villagers. As a result, the officers shot them to death. Their bodies were found 2 days later by villagers. They had been thrown into a creek. (Source: MICB)

On May 23, 2000, a column of 90-100 SPDC troops from IB 246 led by Capt. Htun Aung rounded up 64 displaced people, including men, women and children of all ages, working in the rice and sesame fields near the deserted village of Hueypu, Hsaimong Tract, Kunhing Township and people working in fields near the main road. They brought all the people together at a place between Hsaimong village and Kun-Hing town, about 20 meters south of the main road. The SPDC troops separated all the men from the women and children and lined them up, while some of them made the women and children stay together in a group, and shot all the men dead. The women and children were so terrified by the gruesome scene that they cried and screamed and tried to run away. The troops then turned their guns and fired at them until they all fell dead on top of one another in a pool of blood. The relatives of the victims discovered them when they went in search of them in the fields later. It was also learned that one of the porters made an appeal on their behalf and was shot along with the ill-fated villagers. Others found in isolated fields were also shot on sight.

All the victims were displaced people who had been forcibly moved from villages in the Hsaimong area to relocation sites near Kun-Hing town in 1996-97. These people, who had no land for cultivation in the relocation sites and near the town, had been permitted since 1998-99 by the military authorities in Kun-Hing to farm at places within 3 miles of the town and along and near the Kun-Hing - Nam-Zarng main road. The following is the list of the names of some of the victims and their original villages.

(Note: So far the names of 21 of the victims have been confirmed)

On May 28, 2000, 7 villagers originally from Wan Phid village, Naa Poi tract, Kun-Hing township, Shan State were shot and killed by a column of 90-100 SPDC troops from IB 246 led by Capt. Htun Aung. This was the same troop who had committed a massacre of 64 people earlier the same week. The villagers were shot at their farm 2-1/2 miles south of Kun-Hing town. Naang Pawk, (f), age 31, was also shot at, but managed to escape. She had been returning from gathering firewood and saw the troops from afar and managed to run away, but was shot after and was wounded in her right arm. Naang Pawk was too afraid to go to the town hospital and secretly treated her wounds herself. (Source: SHRF)

On May 29, 2000, a column of about 60 SPDC troops surrounded Paeng Nim village, Paeng Nim tract, Murng-Kerng township, and shot at the houses at random, killing 3 villagers and wounding several others. (Source: SHRF)

On June 1, 2000, As Ku, aged 31, an Akha villager from Aa Yae village, Murng Ko tract, Ta-Khi-Laek township, was beaten to death by 6 SPDC troops from LIB526 on the road just outside the entrance of his village. He had been cutting sticks to make into stakes and sell in town when the troops arrested him and took him back towards the village and beat him to death on the road near the village entrance. The troops then entered the village and told the village headman that they had caught a rebel in the forest near the village and they had killed him after he refused to answer their questions. After saying that the villagers should go and bury him, the troops immediately left the village. When the villagers went to bury the dead rebel, they were shocked to find that it was their fellow villager, Aa Ku, who had nothing to do with any rebels whatsoever, who had been cruelly beaten to death at the foot of his own village. (Source: SHRF)

On June 4, 2000, about 30 SPDC troops surrounded the market place on a market day in Ham Ngaai village, Ham Ngaai tract, Murng-Kerng township, and randomly shot their guns at the crowd of people who were doing their shopping, killing 1 and wounding 5. The dead victim was Lung Paem, male, aged 51, from Paeng Kham village, Ham Ngaai tract, Murng-Kerng township. (Source: SHRF)

On June 5, 2000, a troop from SPDC IB 557 entered Pawat Htee area, Mergui District, Tenasserim Division. They saw Pawat Htee Thoo Day villager, Maung Pan Aung, age 20, son of Oo Ohm Nyut and Ma Htah and captured him. The troop killed Maung Pan Aung on their way back to their camp by the jungle path because he was a Christian. (Source: TIR)

On June 9, 2000, SPDC troops seized Tay-mu-doe villagers Saw Klo Moo, M, 25, near his village and shot to death Li-pwe-kee villagers, Saw Hsa Pah Htoo, M, 14, without reason, at a place between Saw-lor-klo and Khu-lah-kho villages, Pa-pun District, Karen State. (Source: KIC)

On June 9 2000, soldiers from LIB 343 and a group of militiamen entered Kyauttai village, Ye township, Mon state and arrested four people separately while they were in a religious ceremony at a monastery in the village. U Sai Win Htut, U Nyan Soe, Saya Tartee (a Karen medic from the village) and a Karen boy were accused of being members of the KNU. After arriving in Kai-Daw village, the soldiers badly tortured the four and asked them to dig their burial holes. The Karen boy escaped just before the execution of the other three. Some villagers from Kai-Daw village saw the event but asked not to mention their names. (Source: Yoma3)

On June 12, 2000, a patrol of 12 SPDC troops from Murng-Khark-based IB227, led by Lt. Min Oo, shot dead 2 Akha men for failing to pay ‘tax’, or protection money, for growing opium in their farm in Paa Khaa Long tract, Murng-Khark township. The 2 Akha villagers who were killed were: Aa Jur, age 46 from Huay Yong Long village, and Ai La, age 40 from Huay Yong Noi village. (Source: SHRF)

On June 18 2000, troops from LIB 284 entered Tawae-Pauk village, Kya Ein Seik Gyi Township, Karen State and shot into the village monastery, thinking KNU rebels were inside. A novice monk, age 12, and 2 other villagers were mortally wounded as a result of the attack. (Source: HURFOM)

On June 24, 2000, a troop from IB 262, headed by Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Kyaw Myint, arrived in Pawat village, Mergui District, Tenasserim Division. They accused villager Saw Wa Khu, age 21, of being a spy of the resistance forces and shot him to death between Htaw Ma and Mee Laung Gwin villages. (Source: TIR)

On June 26, 2000, CHRO field monitor Mr.  Zothang and two other villagers Pu Zadun (32 years old) and Mr.  Siamhmingthang (24 years old) of Bungkhua village, Thantlang township, Chin  State were killed by the Burmese soldiers from LIB  266 of Lungler army camp. led by Captain San Lwin. The Burmese army came to the village and surrounded the house while Mr.  Zothang of CHRO was talking with the villagers. Mr. Zothang tried to escape  as soon as he saw the army, but he trembled and was captured by the army. He  was shot death near the bush shortly after they arrested him. After that the  two villagers Pu Zadun and Mr. Siamhmingthang were arrested and shot death  where Mr. Zothang was killed. The dead bodies of the victims were buried by the soldiers and they planted  land mines near their graves. The villagers asked the soldiers for  permission to bury the victims at the village cemetery. They got permission  from the soldiers to  take the dead bodies of Pu Zadun and Mr.  Siamhmingthang and rebury at the village cemetery, but the Burmese soldiers  refuse to clear the land mine they planted at the grave of Mr. Zothang of  CHRO. In addition, Capt. San Lwin and his troops stole kyats 24,000/- from Pu Mang Hlun and a tape recorder from Pu Chan Hre of Bungkhua village. (Source: CHRO)

On June 26, 2000, a patrol of 30-40 SPDC troops from IB64, led by Capt. Win Myint, was patrolling the relocation site near Lai-Kha town, Lai-Kha township, Shan State. Three of the soldiers, led by Corporal Tin Hla entered the house compound of Lung Kham Leng, age 51, and took away an ox. When Lung Kham Leng tried to stop them, Corporal Tin Hla shot him dead. The troops then proceeded to loot the dead man’s house. Naang Swe Ing, a daughter of Lung Kham Leng, who was pleading and crying, was slapped several times so hard that she lost consciousness. (Source: SHRF)

On June 28, 2000, at about 12:30 p.m. in Toun-goo District, Karen State, troops from SPDC IB 55, while transporting wounded members of their unit to Tharn-daung, shot randomly at workers in the orchards, killing villager Naw Mi Kyaing, F, 45.(Source: KIC, KHRG)

On June 29, 2000, SPDC troops ( battalion unidentified) came into villager’s paddy fields at Bu Tor Hta, Shwe Gyin Township, Nyaunglebin District, Karen State and shot at villagers in a hut, killing Naw Mya Kyaing, age 35. 3 other villagers were also lost, and had not been found as of October 2000. (Source: KIC, KAWU)

On June 29, 2000, Capt. Myint Oo, from the SPDC Lai-Kha-based LIB515, Company No. 3, raped Naang Zing U, aged 18, and shot dead her brother, Zaai Maai, who tried to intervene, at a rice farm in Lai-Kha township. (Source: SHRF)

On June 30, 2000, troops from SPDC IB 367, led by Aung Kyaw Oo, went to Du-baw village, Pa-pun District, Karen State and killed 2 villagers at hut in a field. The victims were Saw Pa Htoo, M, 25 and Di Tu, M, 30. They then forced all the villagers to move to Mae-wain village. (Source: KIC)

On July 2, 2000, a patrol of about 35 SPDC troops from Company No.4 of IB246 led by Capt. Kyaw Myint beat to death a man they met in the forest who was carrying some dried fish and vegetables. The man was Zaai Wun, aged 29, originally from Nawng Khawn village in Ho Yaan tract, Kun-Hing township, Shan State who had been hiding with his family on an islet in Nam Paang river since their village had been forcibly relocated by SLORC/SPDC troops 3-4 years ago. At their hiding place, his family fished and grew some vegetables, some of which they sold and used to buy rice in the town. On that day, Zaai Wun was taking 4 viss of dried fish and some vegetables secretly to the town to sell and buy rice for his family. But before he reached the town and was still in a forest at some distance, he ran into the said SPDC troops who seized him, searched and interrogated him, took away all his food stuff and possessions and eventually beat him to death in the forest. (Source: SHRF)

1. Maung Aye, M, 49
2. Maung Tin Aye, M, 40
3. Hlaing Shwe, M, 55 From No-plaw-plu village:
4. Maung Kyaw, M, 47
5. Kyaw Aye, M, 40
6. Saw Gabaw, M, 27 From Pyin-ma-bin village:
7. Par Tee Gar Doe, M, 60 From Win-yor village:
8. Two unkown villagers

They were put in a pit at night. On July 4, 2000, they executed the 9 villagers without any trial. (Source: KIC)

On July 2 2000, SPDC troops from LIB 360 entered Bu Baw Tah village, Nyaung-Le-Bin Township, Karen State and shot into the villager’s huts. Naw Man Myine, age 35, Naw Mu, age 35, and Naw Eh Wah, age 4, were killed, (Source: KWO)

On July 7, 2000, troops from a Pa-O militia captured a villager named Sai Aw, aged 31, son of Loong Su and Pa Awng who lived in Wan La village, Murng Paeng township, Shan State. He was captured on the way to the market of Wan Ja Lai village. After his capture he was killed at a place east of Wan Ja Lai. The Pa-O militiamen took away 70,000 kyat in cash and one golden necklace from his dead body. (Source: SSA)

On July 8, 2000, a patrol of SPDC troops from Company No.4 of IB246 led by Capt. Kyaw Myint beat to death a displaced man and a woman, who was also raped before being killed, in a forest some distance from Kun-Hing town, Shan State. The man, Zaai Pan and the woman, Pa Mung, aged 40, were displaced persons who were in hiding and on that day they were taking some vegetables and 3 viss of dried deer meat to sell and buy rice in the town when they met the SPDC troops. The troops stopped them, took all their belongings and interrogated them, and raped Pa Mung. Some time later, they beat and interrogated them until they both died. (Source: SHRF)

On July 10 2000, a group of soldiers from LIB 81, based in Papun District, Karen State, led by Lt. Win Naing killed a cattle trader from Kyaik Hto town, Mon State. After they killed him, they took his 4 oxen. (Source: MICB)

On July 11, 2000, a combined force of troops from Column 1 of SPDC LIB 314 and Column 1 of SPDC LIB 340 came to Meh-nyo-ta village, Pa-pun District, Karen State and shot to death Saw Eh Say, M, 55, and burnt down his house. (Source: KIC)

In mid July 2000, 15 Burmese men who had been sent to Zar Det Gyi island, Tenasserim Division to cut wood by their Thai employer were summarily executed for illegally cutting wood by SPDC soldiers from LIB 326. Ko pauk Gyi, age 30, Hnote Khun Hmwe, age 25, Ah Tit, age 20, Ko Yaung, age 26, Ko Shwe Ar, age 23, Ar Yu, age 27, and 9 other people (names unknown) were killed, and their bodies were seen later, by a sailor, floating in the ocean. In accordance with existing SPDC laws, the illegal woodcutters should have been brought to court and sentenced to imprisonment, yet the soldiers decided the fate of these 15 people without bringing them to trial. (Source: Yoma3)

On July 14, 2000, in Doo-pla-ya District, Karen State, a column from SPDC LIB 703, led by Major Moe Kyaw Tway, killed the child of Saw Par Ler, a Mer-ta-pwee villager, without reason. (Source: KIC)

On July 14, 2000, a patrol of SPDC troops from Company No.4 of IB246 led by Capt. Kyaw Myint beat to death 5 displaced persons-in-hiding who were returning from Kun-Hing town, Shan State after buying rice for their families, in a forest some distance from the town.

The 5 victims were:

1. Zaai Thun (m), aged 43
2. Zaai Nyo (m), aged 37
3. Zaai Maat (m), aged 29
4. Zaai Ka-Ling (m), aged 31
5. Zaai Mon (m), aged 41 (Source: SHRF)

On July 15, 2000, a troop of 30 ‘Pyi Thu Sit’ (SPDC’s people militia) from Le Thit village tract, Mergui District, Tenasserim Division, headed by Khin Maung Tint, entered the compound of Saw Hpo Nu and shot at his house. His wife was in the house. After entering the house and learning that Saw Hpo Nu was not there, they told Saw Hpo Nu’s wife that her husband was a rebel informer shot Saw Nu’s son, age 1, to death. (Source: TIR)

On July 15 2000, SPDC soldiers from IB 337 based at the Naung Taing gate, Hliang Bwe township, Karen State murdered a cattle trader named Ko Soe Naing, age 21 from La Da Wei village, Hliang Bwe township. After they killed him, the soldiers took 500,000 kyat from the dead body. (Source: MICB)

On July 16, 2000, a Lahu villager named Ja Yae, age 36, was shot dead by a patrol of 30-40 SPDC troops from Murng-Sart-based LIB527 on the way between his farm and his village, Loi Khaw, in Loi Sawng tract, Murng-Sart township, Shan State. A few days after the incident, the same SPDC troops came to Loi Khaw village and asked for food. They told the villagers that when they came to the nearby village 3-4 days ago they shot dead a man who tried to run away from them and they did not know which village he belonged to. The village headman told the troops that it was his villager who had been shot dead and that his funeral had just been finished. The commander of the troops told the headman to tell his villagers not to run away next time they saw SPDC troops because if they did they would also be shot. (Source: SHRF)

On July 17, 2000, troops from SPDC LIB 705, led by battalion commander Aung Hein Chan and second battalion commander, Zaw Naing Moe, arrested Thet-pyu-chaung villager Saw Tho Tho, M, 21, and shot him to death, without reason, on their way to Shwe-po-hut-ywa-thit village, Doo-play-ya District, Karen State. (Source: KIC)

On July 20 2000, IB 262 soldiers entered Pawat village tract, Htee Thu Day village, Mergui District, Tenasserim Division, and captured a villager named Saw Thwe Swe, age 37, the son of Saw Hpo Toke and Naw Ka Maying. They accused Saw Thwe Swe of cooperating with the resistance force, brought him to a place called Kamalay, and shot him to death. (Source: TIR)

On July 20, 2000, a group of SPDC troops came to Thee-thu-khee village, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State, and shot to death 3 villagers. They also destroyed the houses and hill paddy fields of the three. The villagers killed were: (1) Saw Oh-kler, M, 70, (2) Saw Wah Kay, M, 23, and (3) Naw Nelly Paw, F, 19. (Source: KIC)

On July 20 2000, SPDC troops (battalion unidentified) entered Toe Thoo Khee village, Shwe Gyin Township, Karen State and shot at villagers killing Saw Oh Kler, age 70, Saw Wah Khin age 23, the son of Saw Htan Shwe, Naw Nelly Paw, age 19, the daughter of Saw Thi Htoo and the small baby of Naw Nelly Paw. (Source: KAWU)

On July 27, 2000, at about 3:30 PM, troops from IB 104, led by battalion commander, Aung Htun Oo, of column 2, came to Pa-ko village, Pa-pun District, Karen State and for no reason beat Saw Maw Dwah M, 25 and killed Pa Kaw Lah M, 20. (Source: KIC)

On July 28 2000, SPDC military officers from IB 338 led by Lt. Myint Oo, arrested U Mohammed Yasin, age 36 of Pa-an town, Karen State and shot him dead after accusing him of contact with anti-SPDC groups. (Source: MICB)

On July 30, 2000, troops from SPDC LIB 360 came to a place in Ta-kweh-hta, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State and shot to death 3 villagers, including villager Pah Ta Klo. (Source: KIC, KAWU)

In August 2000, soldiers from IB 31 arrested Naw Laung (about 50 years), on her way to home in Win-laung village, Kya Ein Seik Kyi Township, Karen State and raped and killed her under the accusation that she was a rebel informer. (Source: HURFOM)

On August 1, 2000, troops from SPDC IB 343, led by battalion second commander Khin Maung, came to Ma-tha-yaw village of Kya-in Township, Doo-pla-ya District, Karen State and, for no reason, seized villager Saw Maung Aye. On August 11, 2000, they shot him to death. (Source: KIC)

On August 2, 2000, a patrol of 45-50 SPDC troops from Company No.4 of LIB 520 led by Capt. Aung Hpe entered the farm of a family from Wan Nyawng, Ho Lin tract, Murng Pan Township, Shan State who had been staying and working at their rice farm since June of this year without trouble. The troops ordered the head of the family, Lung Pan-Ta, a 59-year-old man, to gather his family together. Capt. Aung Hpe then accused them of collecting intelligence for SSA troops and, before they could make any response, ordered his troops to shoot them. All 6 of the family members gathered were shot dead together at the same spot. Naang Nae, a 14-year-old girl, who was returning from fetching water and nearing to the farm, heard the sounds of the gunfire and ran away from the farm.

The family members who were killed are: 1. Lung Pan-Ta (m), aged 59, head of the family, 2. Pa Thun Nae (f), aged 47, 3. Zaai Thawn (m), aged 22, 4. Zaai Man (m), aged 20, 5. Naang Mon (f), aged 19, and 6. Naang Ung (f) aged 17. Later, after burying the bodies of the dead, some village and community leaders went to complain to the Commander of LIB332, yet they were told that the troops from LIB520 might have mistaken them as rebel soldiers and misinterpreted the situation and shot the villagers dead, and to go and look at the dead and bury them properly. (Source: SHRF)

On August 3, three villagers from Ha Min Kyi village in Tavoy District, Tenasserim Division were travelling to the Thai-Burma border to sell some cattle. When they arrived to Mo Kyi Pyan Mountain, they were stopped and arrested by a group of 15 SPDC soldiers from Column No. 2, IB 285, which takes security at the Thu Ka border pass. The soldiers arrested the three villagers, U Pu Lu, 45 yr. (male), Ma Chaw Su, 18 yr. (female), and U Aung Than, 40 yr. (male), with their six cattle and took them to the Thuka border pass. It was later learnt that all 3 of them were shot dead by these troops. Ma Chaw Su was repeatedly raped before she was killed. All their cattle were taken by the soldiers. During a 3 day period, from August 1 to 3 2000, SPDC IB 285 killed 10 traders and confiscated more than 30 cattle in the Thuka border pass. It is a route that the Burmese people use to trade cattle and travel to work in Thailand. (Source: TIR)

On August 4 2000, SPDC troops (battalion unidentified) shot to death Saw Tin Win, age 30, son of Pah Tha Say and Naw Mu Po, at Htee Bla village, Shwe Gyin Township, Karen State. (Source: KAWU)

On August 4, 2000, SPDC soldiers from IB 109 patrolling on the way from Wang Murng arrived at the west of the market in Ham Ngai village and they shot down one of the villagers in the market place without asking any questions. The victim was Loong Yord from Wan Kung Kham, Ham Ngai tract, Murng Kerng township, Shan State. After killing him the SPDC troops took clothes from his body, and some money. (Source: SSA)

On August 8, 2000, ten men, led by Mu Nor Dway from DKBA Brigade 999 came to Kaw-thu-kee village, Pa-an District, Karen State and shot at the medical team, killing Naw Chay Ywa, 28, daughter of Par De Pler, and wounding a child, Par Pay Wah, age 1. They looted all the medicine distributed by the medical team and burnt down a field hut.
(Source: KIC, KWO)

On August 10, 2000, at (1:00) p.m., 25 troops from SPDC IB 283, IB 32, and LIB 343, led by No. 2 column commander Aung Thein Myint and LIB 343 No. 3 company commander Khin Maung, seized Tee-po-than villager Saw Doo Shay (a) Saw Thein Hla (M, 42). They accused him of having a gun and then hit him in the head and killed him. They then buried him in the south of Aung-cha-tha village, Doo-pla-ya District, Karen State. (Source: KIC)

On August 10, 2000, at about 8:55 p.m., 20 troops from DKBA Brigade 555 led by Moe Gyo, came to Si-pa-day-kee village, Pa-an District, Karen State and shot to death Pa Mo Lo M, 25, his wife, Naw Mu Thay 20, and his friend Pa Ta Day, M, 30, at Ma-klaw-kee’s farm hut. The troops looted a gold ring and a pair of gold earrings from the dead and burnt down the hut. (Source: KIC, KWO)

On August 11, 2000, troops from SPDC LIB 365 entered Htee Threh Khee village, Shwe Gyin Township, Karen State and shot to death Saw Khin Maung, age 50. (Source: KAWU)

On August 11, 2000, SPDC LIB 365 troops in Nyaung-lay-gin District, Karen State shot at Tee-ta-rat-kee villagers, who were planting rice, killing villager Saw Kyin Maung (M, 40). The troops then looted rice from the villagers. (Source: KIC)

In mid August 2000, 3 Lahu men were shot in front of their families for failing to relocate within the specified time frame. Jalaw, age 27 from Nati village, Jashay, age 42 from Panghawk village, and Lawsha, age 31 from Panghawk village were among the 6 villages which had been ordered to relocate in Kunhing township between August 10 and 15 by Major Kyaw Lin, commander of a military column (unit unidentified). (Source: LNN)

On August 14, 2000, a column of 50-60 SPDC troops from LIB514 led by commander Hla Myint shot dead a displaced farmer, Lung Paan Zing, age 47 and stole his 2 oxen 2-1/2 miles west of Murng-Kerng town, Murng-Kerng township. Lung Paan Zing had been gathering and transporting bamboo to make a new fence. He had been a displaced person frpm a relocation site near Murng Kerng. On hearing the news, Lung Paan Zing’ relatives went after him and found his dead body on the road, near his ox-cart loaded with split bamboo and with no draught-oxen. Even though they were sure that Lung Paan Zing was killed by the SPDC troops, they could not and dared not complain to anyone for fear of further abuses. (Source: SHRF)

On August 15, 2000 SPDC troops led by Column Commander Maj. Soe Aung, from SPDC LIB 2, Division 44 entered Boh Ma Heh, Papun District, Karen State and shot into the village. Naw Gaw Gaw, age 20 and her husband, Saw Pa Sa Law, age 25, were both killed, leaving their 2 children behind. (Source: KIC, KWO)

On August 16, 2000, in Pa-pun District, Karen State, troops led by Battalion Commander Aung Soe from SPDC LIB 2 of LID 44, shot to death Poe-ma-heh villager, Saw Par Kyaw Law, M, 25, and took 7,000 kyat found on him. (Source: KIC)

On August 20, 2000, troops from Column 2 of SPDC IB 59 arrested and then executed Saw Ka Pru Mu of Thet-tant village, Nyaung-lay-bin District, Karen State, without reason. They also looted 10 flashlight dry cells, some medicine and 3 guitars from the villagers. (Source: KIC)

On August 28, 2000, combined troops from SPDC IB 96, led by Sergeant Thein Win and a DKBA unit came to Theh-kaw-ta village, Tha-ton District, Karen State and violently beat to death villager Saw Paw Soe, 30. (Source: KIC)

On August 28 2000, Lt. Thein Han of Company No. 5, IB 24 executed 3 Burmese Muslim men and cut them into pieces on the allegation that they were in contact with the KNU. The men were U Mohhamad, age 45, U Saleh, age 40, and Noor Hassein, age 24 of Kaw Yint village, Pa-an Township, Karen State (Source: MICB)

On September 3 2000 the village chief of Hteepawsoe village in Karenni State, Thya Poe, aged 45, was killed by troops from LIB 428 in retaliation for fighting which had occurred in Hteekhu Daw earlier that month. Thya Poe’s wife demanded that the troops return the bones of her husband for burial in the village graveyard, but the troops replied that they had nothing to do with the death of her husband, and that he had killed himself. (Source: KNAHR)

On September 10 2000, military officers led by Capt. Aung Hla of IB 80, under LID 77 arrested 3 Muslim traders with 70 cattle at Nut village military camp near Khayan Ywa Gyi village, Kyaik Hto township, Pegu Division and forced them to pay 70,000 kyats before they were allowed to proceed. However, later the same 3 men were arrested again by IB 80, this time led by Capt. Aung Hla and Sgt. Win Shwe. The second time, the traders were all shot, and their cattle taken by the troops. The men were: U Kasim, age 34 and U E Sia, age 37 of of Tha Nat Pin village, Kyaik Hto township, and U Maung Tun, age 28 of Papun township, Karen State. (Source: MICB)

On September 15, 2000, at 11 PM, Column No. 1 from SPDC LIB 705, led by Zin Yan Naing, came to Mae-tha-kret village, Kya-in Township, Doo-pla-ya District, Karen State and shot at villagers. Saw Kyaw Bleh (M, 30) was killed immediately and Maung Aye Shwe (M, 50) was wounded. (Source: KIC)

On September 16 2000, at (8:30) p.m., troops from LIB 202, led by battalion commander, Ka Nyunt, came to Ta-blu-ko-kee village of Kaw-ka-reik Township, Doo-pla-ya District, Karen State and shot to death Saw Dee Tha (M, 32) for no reason. His son, Saw Si Bet, was wounded in the leg. They then looted from the villagers. (Source: KIC)

On September 21 2000, a patrol of SPDC troops from LIB418 entered a Buddhist temple in Hai Kuay village, Murng Nai township, Shan State at midday. A villager, Zaai Yawn, aged 18, was visiting and talking with some of the novice monks at the temple when the SPDC troops suddenly came into the temple and asked the abbot questions about Shan soldiers. The boy, who had been previously tortured while serving as a porter, was so frightened at the sight of the soldiers that he quickly entered a monk’s room to hide there. The troops saw him and ordered him to come out to the center of the temple. Zaai Yawn was so afraid of the troops that his face clearly showed signs of extreme nervousness and the troops shot him dead in front of the monks, at the center of the temple. The troops then threatened and warned the monks that if they harbored any rebel like this again, they would have to face severe punishment, and left. The monks were shocked by the gruesome sight and were very sad, but all they could do was call the villagers of Hai Kuay village to take care of the dead body and conduct a Buddhist funeral for him. (Source: SHRF)

On September 24, 2000, a patrol of SPDC troops from LIB515 led by Capt. Aung Hpyu killed a farmer Zaai Zaling, age 26 and raped his wife, Naang Mon, age 21 at a farm 2-1/2 miles south of Lai-Kha town. They took the wife away with them for 10 days during which she was repeatedly raped. The couple had been from Kun Hung village, Wan Saang tract, Lai-Kha township. (Also see chapter on Women) (Source: SHRF)

On September 25 2000, troops from SPDC LIB 362 shot to death Saw Ta Ku Kaw ( M,16) at Pwo Hta while clearing weed in his paddy field. Saw Tu Ku Kaw was a villager of Ler Shu Kho village, Kyaukkyi Township, Nyaunglebin District, Karen State. (Source: KAWU)

On September 29, 2000, in Tha-ton District, Karen State, troops from SPDC LIB 1, led by Bo Kyaw Myint Lwin, shot to death Ta-Eu-Khee villager Saw Maung Day, 26, with out reason. (Source: KIC)

On October 5 2000, at 08:00 hrs, SPDC troops from the 315th LIB, 99th Brigade led by Captain Win Shwe besieged one of the farm huts north of Wan Nam Nur village and opened fire on a hut causing an innocent civilian to die on the spot. The victim was known as Nang Mart, aged 42, daughter of Loong Yan Naa and Pa Long of Wan Koong Yoam village, Hai Lai tract, Nam Zarng township. The bullets hit the victim in the breast, in the waist, in the chest and in the thighs. (Source: Freedom News)

On October 10, 2000, a patrol of 7 SPDC troops from Ta-Lur-based LIB316, led by Lt. San Lin, summoned and arrested 2 villagers from Wan Zaang and Ta Pe villages in Kaeng Laab tract, Ta-Khi-Laek township, Shan State. The 2 villagers, Zaai Lawng, age 27 and Zaai Zang, age 29 were accused of being SSA recruiting agents, interrogated, beat and tortured and then eventually shot to death on the bank of the Nam Khawng (Mekong river). (Source: SHRF)

On October 14, 2000, the guerrilla troops of SPDC, under the control of Bo Chet Te, shot and killed, without reason, Naw Law Kaw, F, 39, daughter of Saw Way Ber, at her cardomon plantation, Toun-goo District, Karen State. (Source: KIC)On October 19 2000, troops from SPDC LIB 60 came to Baw Paw Klo and Moe Gi Po Khee, Shwe Gyin Township, Nyaunglebin District, Karen State and captured 3 villagers namely (1) Saw Pah Blai (2) Saw Maw Kyi Na and (3) Saw Soe Tin while carrying rice. Those troops beat them all to death without reason. (Source: KAWU)

On October 23, 2000, a combined column of SPDC LIB (2) and anti-insurgent troops shot at villagers in their paddy field huts of Ta-eu-khee village, Tha-ton District, Karen State, killing a man and a woman. (Source: KIC, KWO)

On October 30 2000, SPDC company commander Captain Aa Kar from LIB 559 combined with Pyi Thu Sit (people’s militia) from Taung Nge village headed by Win Bo (50 men strength) entered into Manorone village, Tenasserim Township, Mergui District, Tenasserim Division. They captured a villager named Saw Htun Hla Thain at deserted Manorone village and accused him as rebel and killed him. Manorone village had been deserted according to an SPDC order. (Source: TIR)

On November 11, 2000, troops from SPDC tactical command (1) LIB 340, led by company (1) commander Win Myint, without reason shot to death Maw-hta villager, Saw Pah Kyaw, 15, son of Saw Too Loo, while he was carrying cardamom seeds. The troops were in the area of Kay-kor, Doh-kho-wah, Maw-hta and Mar-lay-ler, Pa-pun District, Karen State. (Source: KIC)

On November 25, 2000, troops from SPDC IB 289, led by Battalion Commander Soe Min, came to Wa-soe area, Toun-goo District, Karen State, and shot to death 2 villagers without reason. The victims were Saw Poe Hla Win, M, 20, son of Tee Ler Ku, of Wa-soe Village and Bu-hsa-kee villager Saw Taw Lay Htoo, M, 17, son of Tee Ler Poe, of Bu-has-kee Village. (Source: KIC)

On November 25, 2000, a column of about 60 SPDC troops from IB66, with 25 civilian porters, led by Capt. Khin Zaw Win shot dead a couple who were gathering rice at their farm in Loi-Lem township. The couple, Zaai Zin-Ta, aged 30 and Naang Nae, aged 25, was originally from Khong Laang village in Paang Hu tract, Loi-Lem township, which had been forcibly relocated to Pang Long town by SLORC troops in July 1997. Like many other displaced farmers in the area, Zaai Zin-Ta and Naang Nae had been trying to survive by growing rice on a small plot of land at a remote place. On the day of the incident they were gathering rice to take back to their house when the said SPDC military column came and, without asking any questions, shot them dead. (Source: SHRF)

On November 27, 2000, at 9 p.m., a combined force of SPDC and militia troops came to Da-keh area, Mer-gui-Ta-voy District, Karen State and shot at villagers in Ba-baw-plu-poe place, killing two. (Source: KIC)

On November 29, 2000, at 7 a.m., troops from SPDC IB 75, led by column commanders Than Myint and Aung Myo Lwin, without reason, shot to death Shar-see-bo villager Naw Nay Plu, F, 21, in Ber-ta area, Toun-goo District, Karen State. (Source: KIC)

1. A Maung 32 Rangoon
2. Kyaw Oo 27 Chaung Sone, Mon State
3. Than Zaw 27 Rangoon
4. A Shay Gyee 30 Moulmein
5. A Nwe 20 Asin, Ye Township
6. Phoe Tharr Lay 27 Asin, Ye Township
7. Ko Ohm 25 Moulmein
8. Pa Kyal 30 Rangoon
9. Ka Larr 26 Tavoy
10. A Ngal 25 Rangoon
11. San Oo 25 Pegu
12. Wanna 25 Moulmein
13. Htun Htun Oo(child) 12 not known
14. Minn Htite 20 not known
15. Zaw Win 30 not known (Source: Yoma3)

On December 11 2000, at noon, SPDC troops of 315 LIB led by Captain Win Shwe arrived at Wan Koong Yoam village, Hai Lai tract, Nam Zarng township and without any questions, they shot dead an innocent villager named Loong Paw Ka, age 48, son of Loong Saw Kwai and Nai Zing. After Loong Paw Ka had fallen down on the spot, they pillaged property in the village while the villagers fled from the scene. (Source: Freedom News)

On December 26 2000, Zaw Ti Ka, an innocent vegetable farmer was killed for trying to prevent SPDC soldiers from stealing his vegetables and his 15-year-old daughter was raped. The crimes were committed by SPDC troops from LIB 333 led by Corporal Khin Maung Soe at a vegetable farm about 3 miles north of Waeng Nur village in Waeng Nur tract, Murng-Sart township. (Source: SHRF)

On December 28 2000, a group of 5 rice farmers were eating their days meal when a patrol of SPDC troops from IB66 led by Capt. Zaw Won shot at them, killing them all on the spot. After that, the troops burned all the rice and left. The victims were all displaced farmers who had been forcibly relocated to Nam-Zarng town in 1999, and later in 2000 to Loi La village, Loi La tract, Nam Zarng Township, Shan State. The victims were:

1. Zaai Seng (m), aged 35, the owner of the farm where the event took place, originally from Nam Oi village in Wan Nawng tract; he left a widow, Naang Suay, and a child
2. Zaai Ya Khawng (m), aged 20, originally from Nam Oi village in Wan Nawng tract; leaving a widow, Naang Man, and a child.

3. Zaai Tong (m), aged 37, originally from Nawng Leng village, Nawng Hee tract; he left a widow, Naang Kham.

4. Zaai Khawng (m), aged 31, originally from Ho Naa village, Murng Zid tract

5. Naang Sai (f), aged 26, Zaai Khawng’s wife; they left their 4 children, who are now orphaned. (Source: SHRF)

The last remains of villager Saw Eh Wah (male, age 57) from Meh Yeh Hta village after his children found his body and cremated him. He was shot dead on sight near his village on March 24th 2000 by SPDC troops from LIB #6, Column 2, commanded by Than Oo and Aung Soe Win. Saw Eh Wah was a village farmer who was not involved in any political activity. [Photo: KHRG researcher]

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