Photos of Extra

One of the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) shells which SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #xxx fired without warning at xxxx village on April 13th 2001 (see Photos #E1 and E2 above). This particular shell failed to explode on impact. [Photo: KHRG researcher]

Saw P—, 48, a Karen Buddhist hill field farmer from xxxx village (yyyy township, Papun District). On May 17th 2001 a column from SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #xxx (under Light Infantry Division #77) came to the area of their village, saw his son Pa Kyi Noh gathering durian fruit in the family’s durian orchard at yyyy, and commanding officer Bo aaaa fired four M79 grenades at him from quite close range. He fell and died under the durian tree. The troops left his body there, and when they entered the village they told the village head they had killed someone. When the villagers went to look later, they saw that Pa Kyi Noh had been wounded in the forehead, wrist, right arm, thigh, and the muscle of his left calf had been blown away; his skull had been blown open. Pa Kyi Noh was 24 years old and had been married for one year, with no children yet. He was a villager with no political connections. [Photo: KHRG researcher]

The body of Pu T—, a 60 year old Karen Buddhist villager from xxxx village in yyyy township, Thaton District. On May 14th 2001 a combined column of SPDC Light Infantry Battalions #xxx and #xxx (under Division 77) entered one end of his village at 5 p.m. and fired off their guns twice. Then they arrived near Pu T—’s house. His wife (Pi T—, 60) heard a shot from outside, then a groan and her husband’s voice saying “I cannot, I cannot”. She asked permission from the soldiers to go to him but they refused and said “It doesn’t concern you”. Other villagers ran over and told her that the soldiers had shot her husband, so she ran to him and saw his body covered in blood. She asked him what he had done, and he told her “I cannot, I did nothing wrong”. The soldiers would not look at her and walked away, then their commander admitted to her that his men had made a mistake and their medic attached an intravenous drip to Pu T—’s arm; they had shot him through the belly, with an exit wound in his buttock. He died shortly thereafter, and the SPDC commander gave her 3 sacks of rice and 10,000 Kyat as compensation. This photo was taken 3 days later when the villagers were burying him. [Photo: KHRG researcher]

Photos # Ma P— from xxxx village in yyyy township (Thaton district). One morning at the end of March 2001, Column 2 of SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #xxx came into her village and started shooting without warning, wounding her and one of the village children. In Photo #E10 she shows the small wound she received. There were no resistance forces in the village; the troops simply shot up the village and then left to return to zzzz Army camp. [Photos: KHRG researcher]

Photo # : Saw L—, 45, from xxxx village (yyyy township, Papun District). In February 2001 he was heading home from his ricefield when he met a column of 50 soldiers from SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #xxx (under Light Infantry Division #77) commanded by Major aaaa. The Major ordered him to go with the column as a porter, and he tried to refuse but they forced him to shoulder a load of almost 40 kilograms (88 pounds) and go with them. On the morning of February 23rd they encountered KNLA soldiers near zzzz village and there was a battle. During the fighting Saw L— tried to flee, but the SPDC soldiers saw him and shot him in the thigh, so he fell and was recaptured. After the battle they punished the zzzz villagers by opening fire on the completely undefended village, killing a 28-year-old woman named Naw Bleh and wounding a woman named Ma T— (see photos below), then entered the village and looted the houses of rice, clothing, gold jewellery and other belongings after the villagers had fled. They left Saw L— behind with no treatment. Photo #E12 shows one of the wounds on his left thigh. See also Photos #E13 and E14 below, which document the results of the attack on the undefended village. [Photos: KHRG researcher]

Photos # : Ma T—, 50, from zzzz village in yyyy township, Papun District. She was shot in the arm on February 23rd 2001 when SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #xxx ‘punished’ her village for a battle which had occurred nearby by opening fire on the undefended village, then looting the houses (for details see description of Photos #E11 and E12 above). Another woman from the village, 28-year-old Naw Bleh, was killed. These photos were taken over a month later, but her wound had not completely healed. Whenever SPDC soldiers are attacked they routinely respond by ‘punishing’ the villages in the area in ways like this. [Photos: KHRG researcher]

Photos # : The body of Saw aaaa, a Karen villager from xxxx village in Tenasserim Division. In mid-January 2001 he was outside his village looking for a stray calf when he encountered a column of soldiers from SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #xxx. The soldiers forced him to walk in front of them, and when he was doing so a Lance Corporal fired two shots into his back and neck, killing him. The column later told the villagers that Saw aaaa was a rebel and had been carrying an AK47 assault rifle, but the villagers assert that he was a simple farmer with no connection to the opposition, and as shown in the photos he was wearing civilian clothing when killed. He leaves a widow and two small children. [Photos: Private independent source]

Photo # : Saw K—, 20, from xxxx village in Shwegyin township, Nyaunglebin District. He and his fellow villagers are living in hiding in the forest but on January 28th 2001, he and some friends returned to the village to round up their buffaloes. Near the village they stopped to cook, and Saw K— and one friend went ahead to see if the path was clear. SPDC troops from Light Infantry Battalion #369 saw them and immediately opened fire, grazing Saw K— behind the right ear and hitting his friend Saw W— in the thigh. They both managed to run a short distance to escape before they couldn’t go on and the others had to carry them. Saw K— was taken to a KNLA medic who treated his wound and it healed. His friend Saw W— was taken to a KNU field hospital further away, and still could not walk 3 months later. [Photo: KHRG researcher]

Photos # : Naw D—, age 13, also from xxxx village, who was shot in the buttocks and wounded in the wrist and ankle by M79 grenade fragments as she tried to flee the hut (see description with Photos #E30-E36 above). She managed to run far enough to escape, but then had to be carried by other villagers. Photo #E37 shows her receiving basic treatment from other villagers; Photo #E39 shows Naw D— later, in early 2001. She never returned to her village after the shooting and had to heal her wounds in the forest with almost no access to medicines. She and the people of all 12 villages in the immediate area are in hiding in the forest in various locations. [Photos: KHRG researcher]

Photo # : Saw
P—, 34, a farmer from xxxx village, Shwegyin township, Nyaunglebin District. In mid-2000 he was detained by an SPDC patrol of Infantry Battalion #96, and when he ran to escape they fired on him and he was hit in the upper arm, though he still managed to escape. He had no access to medicines so the wound became infected, and when Photo #E54 was taken in March 2001 it still had not healed. Photo #E55 was taken after he had reached a refugee camp in Thailand in June, when he had finally received proper treatment and the wound had closed. [Photo: KHRG researcher]

	Photos # Saw P—, age 21, a Karen farmer from W— village in eastern Toungoo District. On July 13th 2001 he was hiking to Kler Lah village to try to buy some rice. As he was walking on the path between Klay Soe Kee and Kler Lah, fighting broke out along the same path between KNLA soldiers and an SPDC patrol from Infantry Battalion #30. The SPDC troops began firing mortar shells along the path, and one of the shells landed near Saw P—. He was hit by shrapnel in his hip, his right calf and his back. These photos were taken four days later, when he received treatment from a KNLA medic. [Photos: KHRG researcher]