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Photos #11-12, 11-13, 11-14, 11-15: Saw Htoo Aye, age 41, killed by an SPDC landmine on 9 December 2004. He is a villager from Ka Bu Kee village in Papun District. SPDC relocation orders have forced everyone in Saw Mu Plaw village tract out of their villages, so like many others he was living in hiding in the forest. He stepped on this mine near an SPDC Army post in the area. It blew off both of his legs (see photo 11-14) and he bled to death on the spot. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photo #5-2: Saw G---, 42, from H--- village in Tantabin Township of Toungoo District was wounded during fighting between the SPDC Army and KNLA soldiers. He had been ordered to serve as a guide by Commander Hlaing Win Tin of SPDC IB 60 Column 1 when a battle occurred on 1 July 2004 despite the informal KNLA-SPDC ceasefire. He received numerous wounds to his arm, leg, and abdomen as he was trying to escape the fighting. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photo #6-76: Escaped convict porters (left to right) S---, age 20, A---, age 20, and K---, age 18, who were forced to porter loads for the SPDC LIB 379 in Bu Tho Township, Papun District. All three of them were Buddhist monks. One evening they were out for a walk when they were stopped and detained by SPDC troops, who then sent them to prison without charge or trial. On arrival at prison they were forcibly disrobed, then sent to Papun District as convict porters. All three of them were forced to porter loads to frontline areas and work on the vehicle road at Kaw Pu for LIB 379. When they felt they could no longer endure the treatment, they fled on 28 April 2004. This photo was taken a couple of days later. It is likely that they were initially arrested for no reason other than to fill the SPDC’s growing need for convict porters. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photos #5-3, 5-4, 5-5: On 20 December 2003, soldiers of SPDC IB 264 Column 1 (Column Commander Tin Maung Shwe commanding) led by officer Chit Hlaing encountered a group of four villagers from Toungoo District along their way. They detained all four men, looted their belongings and robbed the 100,000 Kyat in cash the four were carrying with them. They then tied the heads of the four men with cloth and beat all four of them to death with a stick. The victims were Saw Day Day, 30, and Saw Win Ni from Ma La Gone village; Saw Ni K’Ler, 20, from Peh Kaw Der village; and Saw Ba Aung, 30, from K’Thaw Kee village. They then buried all four men in a shallow hole together along with the cloth and the stick used to kill them. The grave was found and partially exhumed in February 2004. Lying among the remains of the victims and their clothing, photo 5-3 displays the red bloodied cloth that was used to tie one of their heads before beating them with the stick. The stick used to beat them to death, still marked with the blood of the victims, appears in the foreground of photo 5-5. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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