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Photo #10-21: Naw S---, 40, and her 9 year old son Saw B--- are from S--- village in the hills of Tantabin Township, Toungoo District, but due to SPDC militarization around their village they now live in hiding in the forest in this simple hut. This photo was taken in August 2004. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photo #10-23: When this photo was taken in June 2004, these women and children from S--- village in Than Daung Township, Toungoo District, had just fled into the forest to escape SPDC troops. Here they have gathered in the rudiments of one of the first shelters they are building. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photos #10-30 : Karen villagers in Than Daung township, Toungoo District, fleeing on 24 January 2004 after SPDC LID 55 troops had burned their village at Htee Hsa Per. They had to grab whatever they could and run as the troops entered the village. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photos #10-47, 10-48, 10-49, 10-50, 10-51, 10-52, 10-53, 10-54, 10-55, 10-56: Villagers throughout Lu Thaw Township of Papun District fled their villages as mobile SPDC columns sought to catch them in their villages in January 2004. The people of K--- village fled on 8 January (photos 10-47 and 10-48); from L---, M---, and T--- villages also on January 8th (photos 10-49 through 10-51); from P--- village, on 11 January (photo 10-52); from K--- village on 18 January (photo 10-53); and from H--- village on 18 January (photos 10-54 and 10-55). Photo 10-56 shows some of the displaced villagers who have gathered at one hiding site arriving to meet with local KNLA officers to get information on SPDC movements and to request medicine for the sick. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photo #10-61: Naw K---, age 95 (left), and Naw L---, age 80 (right), are both from K--- village in Lu Thaw Township, Papun District. They cannot walk well anymore, so the villagers left them hidden in the ricefields before fleeing themselves higher into the forests in January 2004. Left alone like this, the two women say they have trouble cooking for themselves. This photo shows them in their hiding place on 17 January 2004. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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Photos #8-10, 8-11, 8-12: These photos taken in April 2004 show Naw M---, 21, and her one-and-a-half year old daughter, Naw T---. They are from B--- village in Dweh Loh Township, Papun District. The large abscess visible on the side of Naw M---’s neck had grown for over a year because no Karen medical teams had been able to penetrate this area due to intensive SPDC and DKBA militarization. SPDC and DKBA authorities in the area have outlawed the possession of medicines, fearing that the villagers will give them to the KNU. She tried to treat the disease using traditional herbal medicines, creating a concoction of various roots and grasses with turmeric, but these traditional remedies often prove to be inadequate and the illness persisted uncured. Naw M--- became malnourished to the point where she could no longer produce milk for her baby, and even if she could the baby might be too weak to suckle. The baby was so weak that even when she cried, she made no sound. (Photo and Text Source: KHRG, 2004)
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A FBR medic treating an IDP in Pa'an District, Karen State, in February-March 2004. In this area, Burma Army Column 2, LIB 101, Division 77, led by Major Win Tint, were responsible for human rights abuses, including forcing villagers to porter for them, looting and intimidation. The DKBA also patroled this area. (Source: FBR, 2004)
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A FBR relief team helps an IDP woman in Mergui-Tavoy District, southern Karen State, to deliver her baby in April 2004. IDPs in this area are villagers from near the Tenasserim River and Paw Klo River. They moved to their present locations when the Burma Army launched a major offensive in 1997. (Source: FBR, 2004)
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An IDP woman in Kler Lwe Htoo District, Karen State. (Source: FBR, 2004)
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A blind IDP woman in the Ya Aung area in Nyaunglebin District, Karen State on 20 November 2004. When the family fled, one of the woman’s sons carried her and her other son carried their food to the IDP hiding site. (Source: FBR, 2004)
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A Karenni IDP grandmother shot in the leg by combined forces of the Burma Army and Karenni National Solidarity Organization near Mawchi, Karenni State in September 2004. (Source: FBR, 2004)
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An elderly woman building a shelter in an IDP site near Hsaw K’hta village, Mergui-Tavoy District, Tenasserim Division. (Source: FBR, 2004)
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