{"id":66911,"date":"2012-10-18T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T05:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=57854"},"modified":"2012-10-26T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T00:09:13","slug":"7-year-old-kachin-boy-shot-by-burma-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2012\/10\/18\/7-year-old-kachin-boy-shot-by-burma-army\/","title":{"rendered":"7-year-old Kachin Boy Shot by Burma Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBR Report:\u00a07-year-old Kachin Boy Shot by Burma Army<\/h1>\n
17 October, 2012<\/address>\n
Kachin State, Burma<\/address>\n

On 15 October 2012 at 2:15pm, Burma Army Infantry Battalion (IB) 37 began firing machine guns and mortars from a hilltop on the China-Burma border nearby a Kachin refugee site located just inside China.\u00a0\u00a0For about two hours, the refugees heard shooting in the area but bullets did not hit the refugee site. \u00a0At 4:30pm, a 7-year-old boy named Bawm Hkaw was eating outside his house when machine gun bullets hit his left thigh and right hand.\u00a0\u00a0Other bullets perforated his clothes but missed his body.\u00a0\u00a0As he fell to the ground, his father, a pastor and village headman, heard the boy\u2019s screaming and immediately took him to a local Chinese hospital.\u00a0\u00a0While Bawm Hkaw is in stable condition, the bullet that hit his left thigh fractured his femur and amputation may still be necessary. \u00a0Bawm Hkaw’s injury was the refugees’ first alert that they were being fired on, then as more bullets and mortar shells began hitting the site and destroying houses, the refugees ran for cover. \u00a0The gunfire ceased at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n

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7-year-old Bawm Hkaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Leg shot by Burma Army<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The refugees are from Hpa Re Village which fled Burma Army attacks and arrived to their current location on 22 May 2012, and were also fired on that same day.\u00a0\u00a0There are 735 people from 120 households at the site.\u00a0\u00a0Hpa Re Village is in the Pang Wa area in Northeastern Kachin State. \u00a0IB 37 is part of Burma Army Northern Command.<\/p>\n

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X-ray of broken femur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Wound to hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Bullets shot through his jacket but missed his body<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We pray for Bawm Hkaw that his leg can be saved, and also for many displaced Kachin people living in fear of the Burma Army.<\/p>\n

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God bless you,<\/p>\n

Kachin Free Burma Rangers<\/p>\n