WAR: convicts were forced to wear military uniforms, carry weapons and serve as advance guard

  •  2.september 2011
    A Shan convict who recently escaped from the Shan State war zone said he and other fellow convicts were forced to wear military uniforms, carry weapons and serve as advance guard for the main troops. The soldiers in his unit were also issued meager rations made up of 1 condensed milk can and 3 canful of rice. Some days all of them except the officers went without food. (SHAN)

20 villagers killed on Bomb blash by Kwekalu Karen News

ႀသဂုတ္လ ၂၂ ရက္ေန ့တြင္ ဗမာ့တပ္မေတာ္ ေျချမန္တပ္ရင္း ၅၅၅ တုိင္းရင္းမွဴး မင္းဦး ဦးစီးတပ္ဖြဲ ့သည္ တနသၤာရီတုိင္းရွိ ထီးတယ္ထာေဒသ လယ္မူလားျမိဴ ့နယ္ ပေလာခရုိင္တြင္ ရြားသားႏွစ္ဦးကုိ အေႀကာင္းမဲ ့သတ္ပစ္လုိက္ေႀကာင္း ကြယ္ကလူ ကရင္သတင္းစဥ္ ( http://www.kwekalu.net/update/2%20lml%20villagers%20killed.html) တြင္ေဖၚျပထားပါသည္။ အဆုိပါ အသတ္ခံရေသာ ရြာသားမ်ားမွာ ေစာေကာ္လယ္ (၃၀ႏွစ္) ႏွင့္ ေစာႀကာခယ္(၃၇ႏွစ္)တုိ ့ျဖစ္သည္။

သိန္းစိန္အစုိးရသည္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးစကားမ်ားကုိ လူႀကားေကာင္းေအာင္ ေျပာဆုိေနေသာ္လည္းပဲ တကယ့္လက္ေတြ ့တြင္ ဗမာ့တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ား ေက်းလက္ကရင္ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ရြားသားမ်ားကုိ လစ္ရင္လစ္သလုိ ခုိးသတ္ေနသည္ကုိ စုံစမ္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္လမ်ားတြင္လည္း သံေတာင္ႀကီးေဒသမွ ဒဲကား(မဲသခၤာေလး) ရြာသားႏွစ္ဦးအား အေႀကာင္းမဲ့သတ္ပစ္ေႀကာင္းကုိ ေကအုိင္စီသတင္းတြင္ပါရွိပါသည္။

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