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Porter Testimonies: Kaw Moo Rah (Kawmoora) Region [Regional or Thematic report]
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Dec 31st, 1992 |
| These 4 men escaped to Thailand in mid-December 1992, after being used as porters for 2 months in the SLORC’s ongoing offensive in the Kawmoora area, on the Thai border 150 km south of Manerplaw near the Thai town of Mae Sot. The SLORC offensive in this area has been going on continuously for years. These 4 men provide an idea of its effect on the Karen villagers behind SLORC lines. One of them is only 15 years old, and arrived in Thailand with a head wound after SLORC troops fired a grenade at him. |
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SLORC Activities in Ler Ba Ko Village [Regional or Thematic report]
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Dec 31st, 1992 |
| Testimony by a Refugee from Central Karenni (Kayah) State
and List of Villages Relocated in March 1992 |
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Supplementary Report on Karenni State [Regional or Thematic report]
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Nov 15th, 1992 |
| Further Statements Regarding SLORC Murder, Extortion, Slavery,
and Forced Relocation in Karenni (Kayah) State |
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The Current Situation in Mudraw (Papun) District: The Current SLORC Offensive and Displaced People [Regional or Thematic report]
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Nov 13th, 1992 |
| The SLORC offensive against the KNLA and civilians in the Tee Moo Khee area has been going on since July, and still continues. The SLORC has used 13 Battalions, totaling approximately 6,500 infantry and artillery troops, in this attack on several remote civilian villages and a small force of Karen troops. |
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Report by an Escaped SLORC Munitions Porter [Regional or Thematic report]
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Nov 13th, 1992 |
| Includes details on the conditions in Mandalay Prison.
The following account was given through an interview in Burmese with a porter recently escaped from the SLORC’s current offensive in the northern Karen area of Saw Hta. He was serving a criminal sentence in Mandalay Prison when he was taken to Saw Hta as a munitions porter, so his description includes details of his arrest and imprisonment, conditions in Mandalay Prison, and his life as a porter. At the time of the interview he was still suffering from an open gash on the back of his head inflicted by a beating with a G3 rifle butt. On arrival, he also had severe bruises on his back caused by other rifle butt beatings. |
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The SLORC's Relocation Camp at Bo Ka Hta [Regional or Thematic report]
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Oct 31st, 1992 |
| The following report from Ler Doh Township, Kler Lu Htoo (Nyaunglebin) Province, was given by a Karen Baptist pastor who has witnessed firsthand the conditions at Bo Ka Hta relocation camp: |
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Incident Reports from Toungoo District [Regional or Thematic report]
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Sep 23rd, 1992 |
| On August 10, 1992, troops of SLORC Light Infantry Battalion No. 349, Lt. Myint Zaw commanding, were between the 2 villages of Kler Mu Ka and Plint Kee in the Toungoo-Than Daung road area. One of the porters they had with them was a 40 year old Muslim man named U Maung Saw, father of U Pa Ya, from Ka Chaw. The troops took U Maung Saw and beat him severely with a large wooden paddle they usually use to stir their rice, continuing to beat him until he was unconscious. Then while he was unconscious, they buried him in a standing position with his head sticking out of the ground and left him there. |
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The New SLORC Car Road to Twee Pa Wih Kyo [Regional or Thematic report]
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Sep 12th, 1992 |
| Beginning in November 1991, SLORC regiment nos. 10, 317 and 14 built a car road from Bilin to Papun (75 miles) for use in transporting ammunition and supplies to the battle front at Twee Pa Wih Kyo (Sleeping Dog Mountain), where they mounted this year’s main offensive against Manerplaw. The car road passed through villages and rice and sugar cane fields. As it was harvest time, farmers had cut much of their rice, gathered it in sheaves, and laid them in the fields to dry and be collected. |
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Forced Relocation of Villages in Htan Ta Bin Township, Toungoo District by SLORC [Regional or Thematic report]
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Aug 16th, 1992 |
| In the last week of April 1992, SLORC troops of 73 Regiment ordered all the following villages in Htan Ta Bin Township, Toungoo District to move to relocation sites. Those forced to move to Htaw Ma Aye had to move their rice to be stored in another place, Nat Ywa, which is 5 miles away from the relocation site. They can go and get their rice by cart in summer, but in rainy season they have to go on foot and carry back their rice. |
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Karen Farmers in the Irrawaddy Delta: Suffering under the SLORC [Regional or Thematic report]
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Aug 13th, 1992 |
| On August 5, 1992 two Karen boys from Kyone Pyaw Township, Irrawaddy Division, arrived in the Karen Liberated Area after fleeing their village in the Irrawaddy Delta. They gave the following description of current conditions there for Karen farmers. Their names and the name of their village are withheld to avoid SLORC retaliation against their relatives and fellow villagers. |
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Karenni State: Forced Relocation, Concentration Camps, and Slavery: Including slavery under the United Nations Development Program [Regional or Thematic report]
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Aug 10th, 1992 |
| In Burma’s Karenni (Kayah) State, two opposition armies are actively engaged in fighting SLORC troops: the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and the Karenni Nationalities People’s Liberation Front (KNPLF). Both of these armies derive moral support from the Karenni villagers. The SLORC’s response, as in other parts of the country, has been to direct their attacks as much at these villagers as at the opposition armies. |
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Palaung Statements [Regional or Thematic report]
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Jul 3rd, 1992 |
| The following statements were made by ethnic Palaung men, from Palaung land in what is officially northwestern Shan State. They arrived in Manerplaw after being among the 2,000 convicts in Mandalay jail who were taken to be frontline porters at the Naw Hta front of the SLORC's dry season offensive against Manerplaw. They escaped into the care of the Karen National Union. |
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Statements by Karenni Refugees [Regional or Thematic report]
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Jun 12th, 1992 |
| The following Karenni men and women are now refugees in a camp on the Thai side of the border opposite Karen State. They arrived after a long trek southward from their homes in western Karenni State, fleeing a SLORC ultimatum to all villagers in a large part of the State where the Karenni opposition is strong to leave their villages or die. Their statements describe some of the SLORC army’s activities in civilian villages of western Karenni. |
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The SLORC's "Leave or Die" Ultimatum to Karenni Villagers [Orders report]
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Jun 12th, 1992 |
| Following are the direct translations of stamped and signed orders posted by the SLORC in villages throughout western Karenni State in late March of this year. The large areas affected are in the "brown" or "black" areas (those not firmly under SLORC control, where the KNPP opposition is active). |
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Statement by Naw Htoo Paw [Regional or Thematic report]
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Apr 21st, 1992 |
| The following statement regarding forced labour and rape in Kyauk Kyi Township was given to the Karen National Union by Naw Htoo Paw (not her real name) on March 31, 1992, after fleeing her village to the Karen Liberated Area. |
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Testimony of Porters Escaped from the SLORC Army [Regional or Thematic report]
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Feb 26th, 1992 |
| These men all arrived at a Karen Army camp on February 13, 1992, after each spending over 2 months as porters for # 14 LIB of SLORC’s 66 Division. On arrival, the Karen soldiers noted that they were extremely emaciated and shaking from hunger and terror, both of their immediate past and their immediate future. This was clear when, despite their state of starvation, they were at first afraid to eat the rice given to them. |
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Incident Reports [Regional or Thematic report]
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Jan 27th, 1992 |
| Karen Civilian Casualties in the Delta Region
Arrests, Looting, and Murder of Civilians by SLORC Troops in Mergui and Tavoy Districts
Forced Relocation of Villagers in Mergui District
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Testimony of Porters Escaped from SLORC Forces [Regional or Thematic report]
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Jan 25th, 1992 |
| Following are the accounts of four women who were conscripted as munitions porters by the SLORC army, No. 1 Light Infantry Battalion, on or about December 23, 1991. They served for 22 days, experiencing all manners of suffering and atrocities, before escaping into the hands of the Karen National Union on about January 16, 1992. |
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Statement of Naw Mya Thaung [Regional or Thematic report]
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Jan 24th, 1992 |
| Recently, a large group of SLORC soldiers came to Htee Pa Nar village. The men had gone, and we women and children were very afraid. So we all crossed the Mae Seit River to the monastery on the west side, and we hid in a large trench the monks have there. |
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