Photos of Rights of Children

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The young boy in Photo #D7 was lucky to escape with only the injury to his left arm, although he will bear the scars of the attack physically and mentally for the rest of his life.  [Photos: FBR]
Saw M---'s wife was shot dead by a combined column of LIB #115 and IB #17.  She died in the hill fields near H--- village, Papun District, in on July 25th 2001 at 1:30 in the afternoon.  Saw M--- was arrested, bound and forced to carry as a porter for the soldiers for one month before they released him.  Photo #D40 is of Saw M---'s four children who he must now take care of without his wife.    [Photos: KHRG researcher]
This three year old child from P--- village in Papun District was walking around and crying and wanted to go back home.  He was forced to flee along with his parents and the other villagers when SPDC soldiers came to their village in early May 2002.  He asked his parents to go back, but they cannot go yet.  [Photo: KHRG researcher]

Villagers from T--- village, Papun District, flee SPDC soldiers conducting an operation in the area to clear it of civilians.  Five battalions of Military Operations Command #10 were involved: LIB’s #366, 367, 369, 370 and 364.  This photo was taken in May 2002.  [Photos: KHRG researcher]

The family of Saw T--- from T--- village in eastern Papun District flees the SPDC’s Army.  The SPDC burned their village, rice barns and all of their belongings in December 2001 so they could no longer stay in the village.  [Photo: KHRG researcher]

These villagers have built temporary shelters in the forest on the Thai side of the Burma-Thai border and hope to get into one of the refugee camps.  They were originally from T—- and K—- villages in northwestern Papun District, but when SPDC soldiers entered their villages, destroyed their paddy, and burned some of the houses, the villagers could no longer stay there and fled.  The 39 people who fled from these villages have made small shelters out of tarpaulins to stay in and spread leaves on the ground to sleep on.  This photo was taken in May 2002 and the rains had already started.  The villagers were having difficulty making fires to cook what little food they had and shared with each other.  Their children were sick because of the rain, lack of food and inadequate shelter.  [Photos: KHRG researcher]

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