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Day: May 5, 2009
HURFOM: Two men form Alaesakhan village, Kaleinaung Sub-Township, Yebyu Township, were shot by Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 282. One died at the scene and the other has been hospitalized for over a month
Soldiers shoot two villagers in Yebyu Township; one dead, one hospitalized
May 5, 2009
HURFOM: Two men form Alaesakhan village, Kaleinaung Sub-Township, Yebyu Township, were shot by Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 282. One died at the scene and the other has been hospitalized for over a month.
At around 7pm on March 4th, Nai Khin Taung and Nai Ah Bu, 22, encountered troops from LIB No. 282 as they returned from cutting wood in the forest near a farmed owned by Nai Ohwn Kyaw in the Kyaungywa Kwin area. The troops shot the two men for a still unknown reason. Nai Ah Bu was killed on the spot; Nai Khin Taung was wounded with two shots to his thigh, two to his chest, and a head wound from a bullet that glanced off his skull.
The next morning, troops from LIB No. 282 encountered two villagers from Alaesakhan. The soldiers informed the couple that two bodies needed to be recovered, gave them the location and told them to contact their headmen. The troops also confiscated a packet of candles, one pyi (2 kg) of rice and one pyi (2 kg) of sticky rice.
According to a source who spoke with the two villagers, they then immediately went to the location of bodies. “We found a dead body on the ground with a chainsaw near Nai Ohwn Kyaw’s farm at around 8 am. I feel afraid after what we saw there,” the source quoted one of the villagers who found the body. Continue reading “HURFOM: Two men form Alaesakhan village, Kaleinaung Sub-Township, Yebyu Township, were shot by Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 282. One died at the scene and the other has been hospitalized for over a month”
Myanmar: Where journalism is a living hell
y Tita C. Valderama, Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism
It is Southeast Asia’s largest country in terms of land area, yet there is reason why Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is unfamiliar to many people, even within the region.
For one, it has been isolated for the last few decades as a result of both Burmese and international actions. For another, press freedom is unknown in Myanmar, meaning accurate and up-to-date information is hard to find—and report—even within the country itself.
In fact, this was largely why many people in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta were caught by surprise when a Category-3 cyclone (codename: Nargis) rampaged through their communities for about 10 hours last year.
The disaster that struck on May 2, 2008, claimed at least 140,000 lives and left 2.3 million homeless.
Myanmar’s 47-year military government had known about the cyclone several days before, but had failed to warn its citizens. At the height of the cyclone, few people outside of the affected areas had any inkling about the unfolding tragedy, with local television channels showing dancing and other entertainment programs. It was only hours later that the government-run television stations ran a brief news item about a storm that hit Rangoon, the former national capital. Continue reading “Myanmar: Where journalism is a living hell”
arms_depot_buglarized by rfa news
မေကၾးတိုင္း ေရစ႒ကိႂ႓မိႂႚမႀာအေဴခစိုက္တဲ့ ခလရ (၂၅၆)တပ္ရင္းရဲ့ စစ္လက္နက္တိုက္ မေနႛက ေမလ ၄ရက္ေနႛ ညေနပိုင္းမႀာ အေဖာက္ခံခဲ့ရတယ္လိုႛ RFAကစံုစမ္းသိရႀိရပၝတယ္။ အဲဒီလို လက္နက္တိုက္ အေဖာက္ခံရလိုႛ စစ္သံုး လက္နက္ငယ္နဲႛ ကဵည္ဆံအဴပင္ အဴခားပစၤည္းေတၾလည္း ပၝသၾားတယ္လိုႛ သိရပၝတယ္။ continue
http://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/arms_depot_buglarized-05052009135558.html
All 12 SPDC soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Myo Min Htun were killed, but as we were ambushing them from vantage points, these was no losses on our side.
PaO rebels wipe out Junta patrol
TUESDAY, 05 MAY 2009 15:27 KHUN AUNG KHAM
A Burma Army patrol was ambushed by a joint PaO National Liberation Army (PNLA) – Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) force on 3 May near Wanyen (Banyen) village, Hsihseng Township, 57 miles south of Taunggyi. The following are excerpts from an interview conducted with Col Khun Thurein, Commander of PNLA.
SHAN : We heard that there was a clash near Wanyen village which PaO National Liberation Army (PNLA) together with Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) fought against SPDC’s troops, on Sunday. It’s that true?
Khun Thurein : Yes, the clash took place between our troops (PNLA) led by Lieutenant Colonel Khun Kyaw Htin and Major Khun San Yu together with KNLA and the SPDC troops. It started at 10:00 and lasted about 20 minutes.
SHAN : What did casualties report say?
Khun Thurein : All 12 SPDC soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Myo Min Htun were killed, but as we were ambushing them from vantage points, these was no losses on our side.
SHAN : How many guns and other weapons did you capture?
Khun Thurein : We got 13 assorted weapons, 1 60 mm mortar, 1 machine gun, 1 RPG 9, 8 MA 1/ 2/ 3/ 4 rifles, 2 pistols and 3 communications equipment.
SHAN : How about the situation around the Wanyen village after the clash? Are they still continuing human rights violations such as beating and questioning villagers?
Khun Thurein : The area commander Myint Naing went and inspected the situation around Wanyen and brought 5 battalions with him in order to chase us. They were LIBs 426, 425, 424, 423 and 427 from Loikaw Township, Kayah State. And they did interrogate the villagers to make sure that there were no rebels is in the village. Continue reading “All 12 SPDC soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Myo Min Htun were killed, but as we were ambushing them from vantage points, these was no losses on our side.”
The BLC, formed with Burmese lawyers in exile, on Tuesday said, it was looking for a way to file a case against the Burmese junta, for its crimes against the country’s citizens.
Burmese lawyers says junta should be taken to ICC
by Mungpi
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 19:16
New Delhi – The Burma Lawyers’ Council in exile has said it is gathering evidence and collating ideas on how to produce the Burmese military generals in the International Criminal Court (ICC), for the crimes it had committed, including crimes against humanity.
The BLC, formed with Burmese lawyers in exile, on Tuesday said, it was looking for a way to file a case against the Burmese junta, for its crimes against the country’s citizens.
“We are looking at ways to determine how we can file a case against the junta, for their brutal actions against the Burmese people,” Thein Oo, Chairman of the BLC, told Mizzima.
He said, as a step towards looking for a way to bring the junta to the ICC, the BLC along with the International Federation for Human Rights (IFDH) is bringing together international experts, Burmese activists and others to a two-day seminar in Bangkok.
“This seminar is to brainstorm on how best to get justice for the suffering people in Burma and how the international community can take action against the brutal regime,” Thein Oo said.
The campaign to bring the Burmese military junta to the ICC began about two years ago, with a vague idea by the BLC. However, today, it has gained momentum and is able to draw the attention of international experts as well as the Burmese regime. Continue reading “The BLC, formed with Burmese lawyers in exile, on Tuesday said, it was looking for a way to file a case against the Burmese junta, for its crimes against the country’s citizens.”
KNPLF had to agree to the registration after Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Chief of Military Affairs Security Unit, met the group in Loikaw on Monday, the source said.
Karenni ceasefire group to register troops under Burmese Army
News – Kantarawaddy Times
THURSDAY, 30 APRIL 2009 23:13
A Karenni ceasefire group known as the Karenni Nationalities People’s Liberation Front (KNPLF), will have to register its troops under the Burmese Army before the forthcoming elections, which are scheduled for next year, according to a source in Loikaw, the capital of Karenni State.
KNPLF had to agree to the registration after Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Chief of Military Affairs Security Unit, met the group in Loikaw on Monday, the source said.
He said, “KNPLF would be registered under the Burmese Government soon and would get Kyat 50,000 per month. The leaders would get higher amounts than the soldiers.”
Continue reading “KNPLF had to agree to the registration after Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Chief of Military Affairs Security Unit, met the group in Loikaw on Monday, the source said.”
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