{"id":62807,"date":"2006-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeburmarangers.org\/2006\/04\/24\/toungoo-and-muthraw-update\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T00:00:00","slug":"toungoo-and-muthraw-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2006\/04\/24\/toungoo-and-muthraw-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Toungoo and Muthraw Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"662\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolorlight=\"#b7c494\" bordercolordark=\"#333333\" bordercolor=\"#003333\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"99%\"><span class=\"title1\">FBR REPORT: Toungoo and Muthraw             Update<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"99%\" class=\"greytext\">Karen State, Burma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"99%\" class=\"greytext\">22 April, 2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"99%\" class=\"title1\">\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"title2\">\n<div class=\"divdashedline\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" border=\"1\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\" width=\"702\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bordercolor=\"#b7c494\" bgcolor=\"#b7c494\" width=\"1\" height=\"103\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"751\" height=\"103\">\n<table bordercolorlight=\"#b7c494\" bordercolordark=\"#333333\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#003333\" width=\"700\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"1%\" height=\"26\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td class=\"title2\" width=\"99%\" height=\"26\">\u00a0 <span class=\"title2\"><a name=\"0\"><\/a>In             This Report:<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"1%\" height=\"70\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"99%\" height=\"70\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#1\"><span class=\"linkMenu\">Attacks and Forced relocations                 in Toungoo District, Northwestern Karen State. 24 April, 2006<\/span><\/a><span class=\"linkMenu\"><a href=\"#1\">.<\/a>                 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#2\"><span class=\"linkMenu\">Two villagers killed and                 one wounded by Burma Army patrols in Muthraw District, Northern                 Karen State<\/span><\/a><span class=\"linkMenu\"><span class=\"linkMenu\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/20060422_toungoo_01.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"253\"><br \/><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:13.0px\" class=\"caption\">This   family, from Mon Township is standing in front of its hiding place in the jungle.   <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:13.0px\">\u00a0This   entire family is living in the small hut behind them. April 21, 2006<br \/><\/span><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0px\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/20060422_toungoo_02.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"311\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><span class=\"caption\">Relief team medic providing dental care<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a relief team medic providing dental care to IDPs at their hiding place   in Mon Township, western Karen State. Apr. 21, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/20060422_toungoo_03.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"235\"><br \/><span class=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption\">R<\/span>elief team nurse with patients.   April 21, 2006.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0px\" class=\"caption\"><font face=\"Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><br \/><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/20060422_toungoo_04.jpg\"><br \/><\/font>Relief team nurse at IDP hide site, April 21, 2006<br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"> <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span> <\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\" height=\"34\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"706\" class=\"bodyCopy\" height=\"34\">\n<table width=\"99%\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1%\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0px\"><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><span class=\"title2\">Toungoo             District:<\/span><\/font><\/span><i><a name=\"1\"><\/a> <\/i><\/td>\n<td width=\"12%\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"3%\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0px\"><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><br \/>Burma Army forces villagers to leave their homes and move to relocation<br \/>sites. Most villagers flee rather than comply. The Burma Army is now<br \/>conducting search and destroy missions against these people and their hiding<br \/>places. These same troops have entered the abandoned villages and looted all<br \/>the belongings. This is occurring now in Toungoo District, North Western<br \/>Karen State. April 24, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"title2\">CONTEXT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SPDC uses force to clear areas they would like to occupy, driving<br \/>civilian villagers from their land and fields. It is very difficult for them<br \/>to survive. Therefore, all the villagers have a very difficult time. All of<br \/>their possessions have been taken or destroyed by the SPDC; the SPDC now<br \/>come and build their camps over their land. The IDP cannot return. Their<br \/>life in hiding sites is so difficult that many are now trying to cross the<br \/>border to the refugee camps in Thailand. Others, despite their difficulties,<br \/>choose to stay in the jungle and not leave their country. So we need to help<br \/>them. We fear for the future of the IDP in Taungoo district; however we<br \/>entrust our life to God and we struggle to live.&#8221; &#8211; quote from an ethnic<br \/>Karen relief team leader<\/p>\n<p>The Burma Army has extended its operations in Western and Northern Karen<br \/>State resulting on over 9,000 people having to flee their homes. *<br \/>4,000 people are displaced in Mon Township, 2,000 in Shwey Gyin and Kyauk<br \/>Kyi townships*, over 2,000 in Toungoo District, plus 1,000 more who have<br \/>already fled all the way to the Salween River (earlier in March and the<br \/>first week of April). \u00a0Over 8,000 now in hiding, and over 1,100 already gone<br \/>to the border.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"title2\">REPORT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Burma Army gave orders that they would shoot on sight any villager they<br \/>found in their old villages after the April 25th deadline to relocate.<\/p>\n<p>April 22<\/p>\n<p>Major Aung Yan Tun, commander of LIB 168 called a meeting for the villagers<br \/>from Ye Lo, Ta Pa Kee, and Plo Baw Der. \u00a0He told each family to send one<br \/>family member to Play Htsa Lo\/They Pu. \u00a0He told these villagers that by the<br \/>25th they had to move to Play Htsa Lo. \u00a0If they didn&#8217;t move and they were<br \/>seen, they would be killed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week his battalion was involved in the following activities:<\/p>\n<p>April 16: LIB 168, 522, which are both under the command of MOC 16, combined<br \/>and left Play Htsa Lo\/They Pu camp. \u00a0On the afternoon of the 16th they<br \/>arrived at Plo Baw Der and spent the night there. \u00a0They stole property that<br \/>the villagers could not carry with them as they fled. \u00a0The following is a<br \/>partial list of those things and the villagers they were stolen from:<\/p>\n<p>Saw Ma Hen Sein &#8211; 2 baskets of rice, and 1 duck<\/p>\n<p>Saw Maw Heh Pwey &#8211; &#8719; tin of rice, and 3 ducks<\/p>\n<p>Saw Pey Key Lay &#8211; &#960; tin of rice, and 1 pig (worth 35,500 Kyat)<\/p>\n<p>Saw Gay Lay &#8211; 8 Vises of cooking oil<\/p>\n<p>Saw Ma Nu Sein &#8211; &#8719; vise of tobacco, 2 big pots, 2 blankets, and &#8719; tin of<br \/>rice<\/p>\n<p>Naw Hser Paw &#8211; 3 chickens<\/p>\n<p>Naw Ma Thu &#8211; 4 vises of dried fish<\/p>\n<p>These troops also burned 30 baskets of rice that belonged to Maw Kwey Po<\/p>\n<p>The next day they went to Ta Pa Kee and spent the next two nights there.<br \/>They stole belongings and ate animals. \u00a0Villagers from Ta Pa Kee had already<br \/>left the village to hide in the jungle after the Burma Army ordered them to<br \/>relocate their village by April 21st. \u00a0Villagers did not want to move to a<br \/>forced relocation site, so they gathered up all belongings they could not<br \/>carry and fled to the jungle. \u00a0Burma Army troops have also been searching in<br \/>the jungle for these hide sites.<\/p>\n<p>On the 19th they went to Kwey Der and spent the night there. \u00a0On the 20th<br \/>they went to Po Mu Der and spent the night nearby. \u00a0On the 21st, instead of<br \/>going into the village, they turned and went to Hu Mu Der. \u00a0They are now in<br \/>Hu Mu Der, and they have destroyed homes and stolen belongings. \u00a0They have<br \/>also eaten animals in the village that villagers left behind when they fled.<\/p>\n<p>Other villages that were told to relocate by the 21st are:<\/p>\n<p>Mui Lo<\/p>\n<p>Kaw Po Lo<\/p>\n<p>Baw Pa<\/p>\n<p>Lay O Lo.<\/p>\n<p>Villages that were ordered to relocate by the 25th<\/p>\n<p>Yeh Loh<\/p>\n<p>Plo Baw Der<\/p>\n<p>Ler Kla Der<\/p>\n<p>Hu Mu Der<\/p>\n<p>Kwe Der<\/p>\n<p>Kaw Po Lo<\/p>\n<p>These villages were ordered to move to Klaw Mee Der\/Yetagun, Mon Township,<br \/>Nyaunglebin District, Karen State, Burma.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\" height=\"30\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"706\" class=\"bodyCopy\" height=\"30\">\n<table width=\"99%\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1%\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><span class=\"bodyTitle\">Muthraw District<\/span><i><a name=\"2\"><\/a>             <\/i><\/td>\n<td width=\"12%\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"3%\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0px\"><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"> <br \/>Two villagers killed and one wounded by patrolling Burma Army troops in<br \/>Muthraw (Papun) District, Northern Karen State.<\/p>\n<p>One 17-year-old farmer was shot dead in his rice field and another wounded<br \/>as Burma Army soldiers attack villagers from Paw Mu Der Village. \u00a0Earlier,<br \/>on 15 April a villager, Saw Wey Htoo, 31 yrs old was shot dead in his fields<br \/>near Plako by a different patrol.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Update of Burma Army activity in Muthraw District, Northern Karen State,<br \/>April 24, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>On 20 April, 2006 Burma Army LIB 366 from Plako army camp, under the command<br \/>of Tun Tun Win, patrolled the area of Paw Mu Der village and shot two of the<br \/>villagers from that village. \u00a0Saw Hsa Rae Sae, 17, was shot and killed, and<br \/>his friend, Saw Kyay Nu Wah, 18, was shot and wounded in his right leg. On<br \/>15 April, another Karen farmer , Saw Wey Htoo age 31, was shot dead ion his<br \/>fields near Plako, Muthraw, by a Burma Army patrol. \u00a0Villagers all fled the<br \/>village, fearing a direct attack. The Burma Army troops never entered the<br \/>village and returned to their camp the same day. \u00a0Villagers have now been<br \/>able to return, and have already performed the funeral service for Hsa Rae<br \/>Sae.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><span class=\"bodyCopy\">ENDS <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyCopy\"><span class=\"bodyCopy\"><font class=\"bodyCopy\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0px\"><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"> <\/font><\/span> <\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":62807,\"title\":\"Toungoo and Muthraw Update\",\"subject\":\"FBR: Toungoo and Muthraw Update\",\"admin_email\":\"info@freeburmarangers.org\",\"admin_name\":\"FBR\"});\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBR REPORT: Toungoo and Muthraw Update Karen State, Burma 22 April, 2006 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In This Report: \u00a0 Attacks and Forced relocations in Toungoo District, Northwestern Karen State. 24 April, 2006. 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