Burmese
Army burns down 3 Mon villages
Nai Non Htaw, IMNA
January 27, 2005
Troops of Burmese Army burnt down three villages in southern Ye Township
and in northern part of Yebyu Township house by house
basis on each day.
About 100 houses in these villages were burnt down and hundred of
villagers escaped away from the villages.
South-East Command’s No. 3 Tactical Command No.3 has been burning down
the civilians’ houses in Wae-kwao (Paukpingwin), Magyi, and Dani-kyar
villages. All of these villages are Mon villages they have from 100 to
300 households in the village.
Burmese soldiers burned down the houses in which the Mon soldiers from
the splinter group or from the New Mon State Party have used as their
temporary shelters.
According to villagers, the Burmese soldiers have been investigating
from the villagers which houses were used by the Mon soldiers as
shelters and burnt those houses. About 40 houses were already burnt down
in Paukpingwin village and about 60 houses in another
two villages.
“Before they burned down my house, they told me to collect our
properties in the house. Then they burnt down it. But in some houses,
before the house owners completed collecting properties they burnt them
down,” a villager whose house was burned down said.
According to villagers told IMNA, the soldiers normally burned down the
houses in the evening time after night dark fell. After they burning
down, the house owners and neighbors were forced to clean the damages,
so that when the villagers came to the house in the morning they don’t
know what were happening to the house.
Some good wooden houses destroyed and all of the timber and pole were
taken by the Burmese soldiers.
About 70 homeless families fled to a Mon IDPs village
in Tavoy district
under the control of New Mon State Party. Some homeless villagers run
away from the villages and stayed with their relatives in another villages.
According to an escaped villager, “if the Burmese soldiers are
continuing burning down the houses and torturing the villagers, nobody
are dare to live in the villages. The villages will be
empty soon.”
Paukpinkwin, Magyi, and Dani-kyar villages are recently used as bases by
the Mon splinter group, which already moved from the area. Since the end
of the 2003, Burmese military lunched military offensives against to Mon
rebels until now.
During military operation, over 20 women were raped, over 10 people
killed and hundred of villagers were tortured by the Burmese soldiers.
Because intensive military offensives, the Mon rebels
withdrew from the
area and moved to the border areas. Although Mon rebels withdrew from
the areas, Burmese soldier are still violating human rights violations
such as conscription of porter, forced labor; taxation and looting; land
and properties confiscation from the local civilians.
For further information, please contact to
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
E-mail [email protected], [email protected]
www.monnews-imna.com
Tel: 66 (0) 9 5494 296