{"id":63061,"date":"2006-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeburmarangers.org\/2006\/01\/15\/fbr-karen-relief-team-report-january-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T00:00:00","slug":"fbr-karen-relief-team-report-january-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2006\/01\/15\/fbr-karen-relief-team-report-january-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"FBR Karen Relief Team Report \u2013 January 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"662\" height=\"99\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolorlight=\"#b7c494\" bordercolordark=\"#333333\" bordercolor=\"#003333\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"99%\" class=\"bodybox\"><span class=\"title1\">FBR Karen Relief             Team Report \u0096 January 2006<\/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\">15 January, 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 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%\">\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"title2\">KEY DEVELOPMENTS<a name=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"4\" class=\"linkMenu\" height=\"81\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"linkMenu\">\u00b7 <a href=\"#1\">Villagers are victims of extortion                 by DKBA and SPDC<\/a><\/li>\n<li> \u00b7 <a href=\"#2\">Interviews confirm DKBA abuse of villagers<\/a>                 <\/li>\n<li> \u00b7 <a href=\"#3\">Education and Health suffer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"divdashedline\"> <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"title2\">Report Summary<a name=\"1\"><\/a>:<\/span> <span class=\"bodyCopy\">\u00a0<br \/>An FBR trained relief team conducted relief operations and research from January 16th 2006 within Gaw Ngaw Law Bae &#8211; an area of Karen State currently controlled by the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA). The experience of displacement and exploitation of Karen villagers by DKBA soldiers are comparable to that exercised by SPDC troops. The team visited internally displaced persons (IDPs) and they treated patients, spoke with them and prayed for them. <br \/>.<\/span><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/20060115_01.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"196\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\" height=\"31\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"706\" class=\"bodyCopy\" height=\"31\">\n<table width=\"99%\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1%\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"82%\"><span class=\"title2\">Villagers\u0092 victims of extortion             by DKBA and threats from the SPDC<i> <\/i><\/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 class=\"bodyCopy\"> The DKBA forced villagers to work for their camp. In Taw   Eu Htar village alone, they forced 50 people to come and work for their camp.   Xxx xxxx, and Saw xx xxx were the leaders of that work group. An old man gave   his testimony as follows, \u0093We have a very hard time now the DKBA have forced   us to move to another area; sometimes they also torture us. If we don\u0092t want   to move, they will charge 500baht and one goat.\u0094 <\/p>\n<p>  The SPDC forced villagers to carry food for them many times. The SPDC had operations   based out of Klu K\u0092Lee and Taw Eu Htar villages. IB 283 and column 707 were   led by Tin Tun. The column commander at Klu K\u0092Lee is Myo Min Soe. At Taw Eu   Htar, the column commander is Myo Min. In Klu K\u0092Lee Village, IB 707 led by Tin   Tun and his troops forced Naw xxx xxx, 68 years old, to give them 10,000 kyat   and 700baht on January 6th, 2006. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/20060115_02.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"189\"><br \/>  K103 medics treat a patient Treating a burned child <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\" height=\"31\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"706\" class=\"bodyCopy\" height=\"31\">\n<table width=\"99%\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1%\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"83%\"><span class=\"title2\">Interviews confirm DKBA abuse of             villagers<i> <\/i><\/span><i><a name=\"2\"><\/a> <\/i><\/td>\n<td width=\"12%\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"4%\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p> <span class=\"bodyCopy\">The FBR team conducted interviews with displaced villagers.   Two of the interviews are summarized below. Sensitive details have been changed   to protect their identity. <br \/>  1. &#8211;Taw Eu Htar village <br \/>  &#8211;Date of incident: January 24th, 2006, 7am <br \/>  &#8211;Saw Xxx xxxx xxx <br \/>  &#8211;26 years old <br \/>  &#8211;Household: 4 <br \/>  On January 24th, at 7am, the DKBA ordered me to go to their camp. When I arrived   there, they tied him me up. They told me that I hadn\u0092t followed orders. The   leader in charge of these troops was Commander (4) Saw Mu Say of company 907.   <\/p>\n<p>  2. &#8211;Saw xxxx xxx <br \/>  &#8211;35 years old <br \/>  &#8212; Date of incident: 12\/12\/2005 <br \/>  DKBA company commander (4) ordered me and seven friends to go and work for the   soldiers. They captured me and one soldier named Saw Heh Du (of Company 5) hit   me three times. <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/20060115_03.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"188\"><br \/><span class=\"bodyCopy\">SPDC troop movement to the border <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bordercolordark=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#b7c494\" bordercolor=\"#b7c494\" height=\"31\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"706\" class=\"bodyCopy\" height=\"31\">\n<table width=\"99%\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1%\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"83%\"><span class=\"title2\">Health and Education suffer:<i>             <\/i><\/span><i><a name=\"3\"><\/a> <\/i><\/td>\n<td width=\"12%\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"4%\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"bodyCopy\"> The team reported that the IDPs in this area have many health   problems due to their poor conditions, but there are very few medics and not   enough medicine. <\/p>\n<p>  At two schools that the team visited, SPDC soldiers stay at the school building,   making it very difficult for the students and teachers to concentrate. The school   has no opportunity to make improvements. This time, were not able to give any   special gifts for the children. However, they were able to give out Bibles and   hymnals. <\/p>\n<p>  The team leader concluded, \u0093The SPDC is making the living standard of the villagers   decrease, and will continue to make things more difficult for them.\u0094 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyCopy\">ENDS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":63061,\"title\":\"FBR Karen Relief Team Report \\u2013 January 2006\",\"subject\":\"FBR: FBR Karen Relief Team Report \\u2013 January 2006\",\"admin_email\":\"info@freeburmarangers.org\",\"admin_name\":\"FBR\"});\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBR Karen Relief Team Report \u0096 January 2006 Karen State, Burma 15 January, 2006 KEY DEVELOPMENTS \u00b7 Villagers are victims of extortion by DKBA and SPDC \u00b7 Interviews confirm DKBA abuse of villagers \u00b7 Education and Health suffer Report Summary: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2006\/01\/15\/fbr-karen-relief-team-report-january-2006\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","state-karen","state-magwe"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.8","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}