Karen Human Rights Group (original) (raw)
Mon, 30 Jun 2025
This Short Update describes events that occurred in Bilin Township, Doo Tha Htoo District, during the period between September 2024 to February 2025. In September 2024, the State Administration Council (SAC)’s Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) #409, under the command of Military Operations Command (MOC) #8, threatened villagers from P’Yah Raw village tract and forced them to cut down and deliver wood logs and bamboo poles for the army camp’s fence. On December 1st, villagers from Dwe Lo Township, Mu Traw District, feared that fighting would happen in their area, so they fled to Bilin Township, Doo Tha Htoo District. On...
Fri, 27 Jun 2025
This Incident Report describes events that occurred in Htaw Ta Htoo (Htantabin) and Daw Hpah Hkoh (Thandaunggyi) townships, Taw Oo (Toungoo) District, in November 2024. On November 21st 2024, the State Administration Council (SAC) troops from three army camps under the Military Operations Command (MOC) #20 fired approximately ten mortar rounds into Kaw Thay Der village tract (Htaw Ta Htoo Township) and K’Lay Loh Mu Nu village tract (Daw Hpah Hkoh Township). One of the mortar shells landed and exploded in a betel nut plantation near A--- village, Kaw Thay Der village tract, where local villagers were working. As a...
Fri, 13 Jun 2025
This Situation Update describes events occurring within three townships, T’Naw Th’Ree (Tanintharyi), Ler Doh Soe, and K’Ser Doh Townships, in Mergui-Tavoy District, from February to September 2024, including State Administration Council (SAC)’s soldiers conducting drone and air strikes onto these three townships, including by bombardment. Within this reporting period, there were SAC air strikes at least in 13 places in Mergui-Tavoy District, in the months of February, March, May, June, August and September. SAC air strikes occurred on civilian areas, including villages and plantations, sometimes after skirmishes between the SAC and local armed resistance groups in nearby areas, and sometimes...
Fri, 13 Jun 2025
This Incident Report describes events occurring in Moo (Mone) Township, Kler Lwee Htoo (Nyaunglebin) District. On December 26th 2024, at around 7 pm, the State Administration Council (SAC) fired two rounds of howitzer, into A--- village, Htwa Nee Koh village tract, injuring a 46-year-old man when he was returning home after searching for frogs. Following the incident, his brother and some villagers accompanied him to a nurse’s house to wrap his wound, and later he was transferred to a hospital located in Kyaung Pya village tract, Moo Township. He did not receive enough medicine due to supply shortages in the...
Thu, 05 Jun 2025
This Incident Report describes events occurring in Dwe Lo Township, Mu Traw District, in December 2024. On December 30th 2024, the State Administration Council (SAC), based in K’Ter Tee camp, shelled six 60 mm mortar rounds into Aa--- village, K’Ter Tee village tract, killing a 21-year-old villager named Saw A---. The next day, on December 31st 2024, the SAC conducted air strikes on Aa--- village, K’Ter Tee village tract, injuring another villager named Saw B---. After the incident, Saw B--- faced challenges to ensure his livelihood because his house was destroyed by the air strikes. Both incidents happened when these...
Fri, 30 May 2025
This Incident Report describes events occurring in Kaw T’Ree (Kawkareik) Township, Dooplaya District. On March 19th 2025, at 11 am, the State Administration Council (SAC) conducted an air strike into Aa--- village area, Noh Poe village tract, killing two villagers: Saw A--- and Saw B---. One bomb landed next to Saw B—’s house, completely burning it down. The other bomb landed nearby, beside a farm hut where Saw B--- was resting, and killed him. Shrapnel from the bomb blasts killed the other villager, Saw A---, as he was walking on a nearby road located outside of the village. The wives...
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