Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:50:00 PM
On August 12, 2012, eight innocence villagers were forced to carry materials for Chinese business men and tortured by the Captains of ILB-144 named Myo Naing Aung and Win Moe in Sawyam village, Namhkam Township, Northern Shan State, Burma.
During torturing, even though village’s governors have come to beg for the victims, the captains refused and demanded his soldiers by threating the local administrators with their guns. On August 12, 2012, when seventeen villagers arrived at the ILB-144 temporary camp, women were sent back to village and eight men were beaten by the soldier for their cases on August 6.
The ...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:38:00 PM
On July 25, 2012 the Burmese military troops of ILB.501 base in Kyawkmae, loot local people’s ancestral inheritance and stole belongings from local households and shops in Pan Swe village, Manton Township, Northern Shan State, Burma.The Military troops carried out random searches on U Nay Aung’s house and after they found traditional valuables in the house of gold and silver, they took everything they wanted by threating the house owner with their guns. According to an eye witness “the reason the soldiers gave for searching the house was that they believed that house owner was connected with ethnic armed groups but there was no evidence linking him with the armed groups. They forced the house owner to open his jewelry box even though he begged them not to take his things as he...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:37:00 PM
Namhlin village, one of the villages under Ta’ang (Palaung) autonomous areas in Northern Shan State, has been facing the problem of the lack of teachers at their nursery school in the 2012-13 academic school year; the school has only been opened for two months.Even though the school development committee and village administration have submitted a file regarding the situation and have requested a teacher for nursery school to the local minister of education; it has been totally ignored by the authorities.Local villagers have said that the situation is very disappointing because the children do not learn anything when they attend school....
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 4:57:00 PM
On July 23, 2012, a traffic police and a young Ta’ang boy were involved in a motorcycle crash in front of the Barn offices at 9 pm in Namtu, Northern Shan State, Burma. The incident occurred when the traffic police’s motorcycle brushed against Mai Aik Ngot’s motorbike as he was on his back from looking a relative at Namtu General Hospital. Mai Aik Ngot said “I tried to avoid the policeman’s bike but the policeman was really drunk. Therefore, our motorbike collided side-on with each other. Even though he didn’t fall off from his motorbike, he took my key, treated me very rudely and threatened to beat me. Finally as I didn’t want to...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 4:55:00 PM
The fighting took place in Mansat (Ruja) village, Namhsan Township on the morning of July 17, 2012 while the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) were staying at the village, Burmese Military troops (ILB-112) fired their weapons targeting the village the conflict lasted about two hours.As the result of the fighting several houses and a village monastery were damaged. Mai Thein Maung (22yrs), son of Thar Aik Sang, was shot in the stomach and seriously injured. He was sent to Namhsan general hospital for emergency medical care. A local person said, “After the TNLA left the village, Burmese Military troops came to the village and...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:22:00 PM
An incident was took place in Mantong Township on the 4th July 2012, where two Ta’ang youth were arrested by Burmese military troops from Infantry Battalion 507 as they suspected that two villagers had connections with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).
On the road near Tin Joe Village, Mai Aik Kaung was arrested because he had a receipt that held a KIA letterhead. A second man, Aik San Maw, was arrested as Burmese soldiers carried out random house searches where they found an old walkie-talkie in his home.
“These kinds of walkie-talkies are very common in this area as they are useful in communication for logging and some former Palaung State liberation Army members still have them to use where there is no mobile phone coverage. It seems meaningless to...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:20:00 PM
Fighting took place between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Burmese military troops for approximately one and half hours on 5th July, 2012. According to a local resident; the fighting began at 1:30 pm until 3:00 pm.
“Since fighting took place we are afraid to stay at the village and some villagers are hiding out in the forest as we don’t want to flee far from the village because we don’t want to lose our property. One reason why we are hiding is that whenever Burmese soldiers arrive at the village they force the villagers to porter or pointer for them” said the villager.
According to a TNLA source there were...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:18:00 PM
Two Paung Aww’s villagers have been tortured by Min Thet,the Sergeant of Infantry Battalion324 which is based in Namtu Town, Northern Shan State, Burma. The Burmese soldiers arrested Ma Dee and his friend at the checkpoint on Nampanlay-Maisin road during their way back from village to Namtu at 10 am on June 3, 2012.
"Ma Dee’s mother went to the Burmese army temporary checkpoint for looking her son because her son didn’t arrive back home and she heard that her son was arrested by the soldiers. But she didn’t see her son as the sergeant said that her son has been already released. His mother and relatives are still looking for their son until now and their son is still disappearance" said by the local person.
The reason that they were arrested is because of a viss of dry tea and...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:17:00 PM
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Burmese military regime was fighting again for 20 minutes long in the morning. It was started from 45 past 8am to 9am on May 29 2012 .It was took place at the area of Pan Swe and Htart Kyart village road Man Tong Township, Northern Shan State. According to Tar Hol Plang says about the war which are including in this war has three groups.)One side was Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the rest of the side was combined groups the Burmese military regime and Htun Myat Lay who was leading of Namhsan people militia group were fighting backed.
There are three privates were...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:44:00 PM
This report documents the Government of Burma’s torture and ill treatment against its own people since the 2010 elections. This report demonstrates that the Burmese government continues to commit these abuses despite being bound to international human rights treaties and norms. Furthermore, the lack of domestic legislation prohibiting torture, the absence of an independent judiciary, and an ineffective Human Rights Commission contribute to a climate where torture and ill treatment are perpetrated with impunity.
From January to December 2011 alone, ND-Burma’s member organizations documented 371 cases of human rights violation...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:43:00 PM
On 27th May, a member of an armed group sent a message to all bus stations and drivers that they will close the main road which connects Lashio to Muse. The reason for the road closure is the ongoing conflict between the KIA and Burmese Military. According to a villager “Many cars and buses use this road and it is usually extremely busy. However, last night, I didn’t see any buses running. The road was so quiet.” “We are worried that fighting will start again, also I saw no one on the road last night. We couldn’t access electricity for the past two nights and the area was too quiet. Villagers had to try to generate their own...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:42:00 PM
On May 26th 2012, ethnic rebel troops blocked the road from Mantong to Namtu, the local authorities failed to keep the situation under control and as a result local Mantong residents are finding it difficult to maintain their livelihoods and have suffered price increases from the road blockage and continuing conflict. In response to the actions of the rebel group, the Burmese army deployed 200 armed soldiers to block access to the road between Mantong to Namhsan . Due to their actions local peoples’ rights were impinged upon as it restricted their right to travel and to earn their living. The impact of the blocking every possible...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:41:00 PM
On May 26th 2012, the Kachin Independence Army blocked the way between Mantong to Namtu citing reasons of civil war. They sent a letter to the local bus station to inform them of their actions. A local resident and bus station manager said "the KIA released a letter sayingthat due to the civil war they would block access to the road between Mantong and Namtu and that this would have an affect on passengers ability to travel and that it would be advisable for buses and trucks to avoid taking this route.” Local people feel that the reason for the road block is to prevent Burmese military soldiers reaching Lashio as they have to take this route to get there. It is one of the main cities in northern Shan State and important for trade. The letter was sent to the bus station...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:40:00 PM
Fighting has been ongoing in the Namhsan area between the Burmese Military and the rebel insurgency groups, KIA and TNLA. Travel for local people has been made difficult as armed forces have blocked access to local roads in order to gain control over the area.
On May 20th the Burmese Military had blocked a local road and set up a security check point. Two local residents who were traveling by motorcycle were asked to stop and ordered by the soldiers to turn off their engine. The two men were terrified about what the soldier would do and so made an attempt to drive off in order to escape the wrath of the soldiers. The soldiers shot at...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:38:00 PM
Foreign investments are causing increasing conflict and abuses in northern Burma despite recent ceasefire agreements and talk of reform in the country, according to a briefing paper released today by an ethnic Ta’ang group.Catalyst for Conflict by the Ta’ang Students and Youth Organization (TSYO) documents how Burma Army soldiers deployed to secure Chinese mega projects, including oil and gas pipelines and hydropower dams, have been threatening, extorting money from, and killing local villagers since January this year. In March, two villagers coming back from fishing near a Chinese dam site were interrogated and killed by Burmese soldiers...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:37:00 PM
The Burmese soldiers, who take responsibility for the security of the Shwe Gas Pipeline from Namtu to Maimaw, are demanding money from local people travelling around the Pipeline. On April 28th 2012, three tea traders were threatened by soldiers of Lashio Battalion 68, who demanded money from them, on their way from Namtu to Takhalat village.
“The three of us were carrying tea back to Takhalet village by motorbike. When we arrived at the entrance of the village, the Burmese soldiers, who are responsible for the Gas pipeline security, demanded money from us for Alcohol, they were already drunk. We begged them to leave us be because...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:42:00 PM
On the first day of New Year in Myanmar, a Namhsan police officer, Aung Kyaw Lwin and his colleague handcuffed and beat Mai Naing Lynn, from Namawaw he was seriously injured and was taken to hospital suffering from head injuries.
On April 16th, 2012 while the local people were taking part in the water festival, in font of Loi Sam Sip restaurant located in Namhsan Township. Naing Lynn’s friend threw water at a girl and as a result she fell off her motorbike, but she wasn’t wounded or anything and got back on her motorbike and carried on with her journey.
”She said that we were just playing with water in the festival therefore it...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:40:00 PM
In March 22th 2012, 7am local time, about 30 soldiers from battalion 501 Kyaukme forced to porter two Narawlay villagers Mongton Township, northern Shan State and their horses to carry military supplies and weapons.
“They ordered the village elders to give two horses and people. Thus, we sent A Naing 26 and U Saidaw 34 year old and two horses” said the village elders.
The two porters had to go with the Burmese soldiers to the Panyaung village which it’s far about 3 miles by feet and their horses curried the military equipment and weapons.
“Not only did both of us have to bring our food but we also had to bring food for the...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:39:00 PM
Not only did the Burmese militaries baste Noungkaungloud villagers but they also tied them one night at Vainpard village.
In March 20th 2012, the Noungkaungloud villagers Aloum 17 and Aung Then 18 year old Namtu Township, Kyaukme Province, northern Shan State were basted by the military which came from forests and can be opiated the Laisho battalion said the most concern people.
“It happened when we went to work at Lonbala (Vainpard) village. About 30 Burmese soldiers came out from forest when we arrived at the Vainpard village and they stop and asked us about the KIA. They blamed on us that we have communication with KIA and forced...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:38:00 PM
Local correspondent police, border guards, and military security force to ask money from poppy owners even the opium cultivation increase intensively around the Pansay, Karhlaing, Kaungkhar, Nampharkar, and Tarmoenyai villages, Kutkai Township, northern Shan State.
“There are about 60 Tarmoenyai, 40 Nampharkar, 80 kaungkhar, 50 Karhlaing and 20 acres of opium plantation at the Pansay village, Kutkai Township” said a police sourced from the record of the police station.
The local authorities don’t take serious action and clean the poppy at the current opium plantation areas. On the other side, the police, military securities,...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:36:00 PM
Since the beginning of January 2012 to the present, the young people in the local Ta’ang villages, Namtu Township, northern Shan State have avoided from their hometowns as the recruiting of Shan State Army.
“Started from the January, I have noticed the Shan State Army – South has collected new soldiers at the Ta’ang villages such as Pai Ta Byay, Pai Loun and others between Namtu and Hsipaw Townships in monthly. Parents allowed their children went to the China-Burma border for hiding because they didn’t want to lose their sons and made them harm. I recognize about 70 Ta’ang young have run to the border” said one of the Ta’ang Youth’s...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:34:00 PM
A junior battalion commander from Infantry Battalion 130 based in Manton Township, northern Shan State killed two innocent villagers.
On March 13th 2012 at 8pm local time, U Ait Shain from Moelone village and U Ait Sou from Moenye village in Mantong Township, Kyawmae province and both 42 years old were shot dead and died instantly by the junior battalion commander of Infantry Battalion 130 said local people.
“They didn’t do anything wrong, the junior battalion commander shot them for no apparent reason. Then he threatened the villagers saying that if they spoke out about what happened they too would be shot” said a local villager.
The...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:32:00 PM
On March 12th-13th 2012, the local people of Namkham honored Dakhinanyon Sayadaw as he was awarded the Buddhist religious title of Agga Maha Saddhammajotika.
The ministry of religious affairs conferred Dakhinayone Sayadaw with the title of Agga Maha Saddhamajotika. This award is the second time he has been honored with a religious title.
The respected Sayadaw is one of 7 people that have compiled Ta’ang literature. He is still alive and well at the age of 80 and at the Buddhist lent of 60.
“His responsibilities are vast. He is a member of the Shan State Sanga council, a president of Namkham Sanga council, advisory...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:30:00 PM
After just two days of peace talks between a government delegation and the Kachin Independence Organization, both sides were again fighting each other.
“The government troops and the Kachin Independence organization were locked in battle in Nam Haing village, Montong Township for two hours this is the longest battle within the comrade 8 ”according to one of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army officers.
One of the TNA officers reported that “Usually the fighting is staged in short battles of about 10 to 15 minutes. However this battle started from 4 pm and ended at 6 pm in which a massive amount of government troops were killed...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:27:00 PM
The Southern Shan State Army, known as the Shan State Reform council has recruited and increased the amount of soldiers in Namshan township, a Ta’ang autonomous region.
In the third week of February 2012 the SSRC marched to Namshan with over 300 soldiers. When they arrived there they collected protection money and new recruits especially in Pain Long, Pansari and Myo Thit.
“In the process the SSRC already collected at least 300 villagers in the vicinity of these three villages. They will form their new company and regiments. Recently they have already set up camp” according to a local leader.
“Before they...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:25:00 PM
In the first week of January, 2012, U Hting Kyaw, head quarter 8, Kutkai town, along with municipal officers pilfered a massive amount of money that was granted by the government for construction according to a person who is closed with authority.
The regional government provided for the No 4 street to be a paved in concrete but the municipal and the quarter administrators repaired the No3 street that was already concreted and then the rest of money they shared between each other.
“I asked the civil servants who work at the headquarter office and the municipal office that how much the grant was from the regional government and...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:23:00 PM
Starting from December 2012, the Union Solidarity Development Party often asked money from local people during the building of the Kutkai- Karhlaing road in KutKai Township, northern Shan State.
The village headmen at the Kutkai-Karhlaing road said we have to pay for the accommodation cost of the local construction workers, reconnoiters, and two seniors from the USDP who oversee the daily construction even though the government has already given the money for the cost of the road construction.
“We have to feed the police, USDP, and other road construction workers when they come to measure, directing, and build the road. It sometimes...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:22:00 PM
In the second week of February 2012 the families around the Aung Chai Tar restaurant at the exit of Kutkai Township suffered as a dispute occurred between the restaurant owner and Asia World Company that builds the highways between Mandalay and Muse in the northern Shan State.
The Aung Chan Tar restaurant is located on the highway between Muse and Mandalay. In order to stop disruption for customers when digging drains, the company staffs and the shop owner had negotiated to dig the drains as soon as possible as so that customers would stop for longer at the restaurant. However, a problem started to occur after a worker at Asia...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:20:00 PM
On March 2nd 2012 at 4pm local time, Manton based Infantry Battalion (130) were bombed as they made their way to Moemade. The Battalion commander got seriously injured along with many soldiers.
“Our Ta’ang National Liberation Army, KIA, and SSA cooperatively fought them. Two mines exploded as they came in two cars to Moemes village between Manton and Moemade. Two soldiers died and about 10 soldiers were seriously injured including the Battalion Commander” said a correspondent from TNLA.
An eyewitness commented that the injured Battalion Commander was brought by a helicopter to the military hospital in Laisho.
“Now, the...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:16:00 PM
On February 28th 2012, Ta’ang Students and Youth met with the former 88- Generation student leaders at No.41 Street, guest house, in Mandalay, Burma.
“We held a meeting with Ko Ko Gyi and Ko Min Zayar who were recently released from prison, we mainly discussed the current situation of the Ta’ang people how they are struggling for their daily livelihoods. We wanted the student’s leaders know about what is happening so they can lend their support to us” said a Ta’ang student.
Ta’ang Students and Youth were welcomed by the former 88- students and had a great meeting which lasted about two hours. In the meeting, Ta’ang students and youth...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:12:00 PM
In December 2011, 90 mining workers were dismissed from their job without any compensation by the Namtu’s mining authorities in Bawdwin section, Namtu Township, Northern Shan State, Burma.
All the dismissed workers are now struggle to find work and live hand to mouth on a daily basis.
“Even though, we don’t have a daily job or we don’t have regular income, we have to pay our rent. Therefore, its very difficult to provide for our families. As a result, some families cannot support the cost of their children’s education” said by one of the dismissed miners.
Before the miners were dismissed from their jobs, they stayed at the government’s...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:11:00 PM
A casual laborer was killed in a crash with a crane while loading gas pipes onto a truck in Sengkhawn village, Namtu Township, Northern Shan State, Burma.
The victim, who died at the gas pipeline project, was living at Thaung Kyar Thar government apartments. However, the Gas Pipeline’s construction company has not taken any responsibility for this accident. The local authorities have also not taken any legal action so far.
Around the Namtu Township, CCE are one of the main companies leading the implementation of the Shwe Gas pipeline project. Also, Namtu’s town governor, land survey officers, police, Burmese soldiers and Chinese technical...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:09:00 PM
Residents who live in Block-8 of Namtu Towns, Northern Shan State, were forced to carry equipment for the Gas pipeline’s construction by the local chairman named U Mya Maung and his colleagues. The order was given by U Chit Lwin, a member of the Union Solidary and Development Party (USDP).
“At least one member of each family was forced to carry the equipment, not only that but we also had to bring our own food. The men had to dig drains for the pipeline whereas women had to carry bricks and other equipment needed for construction. If we didn’t go, we would be fined. Therefore, in my Block, because we wouldn’t have been able to afford...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 1:07:00 PM
On February 13th 2012, a Maisein villager namedMai Ah Naing was beaten by a sergeant of Infantry Battalion 324 which is based in Namtu Township, Northern Shan State, Burma. It began when the sergeant demanded money from Mai Ah Naingto pass with his motorbike which contained 7Kgof Orchids.
“Mai Ah Nainghad brought back the orchids togrow it at his home which he tried to explain to the sergeant that Orchids were for personal use and not to sell. However, the sergeant refused to reason with him and he demanded him to pay 50,000 Kyats. As the result, when Mai Ah Naingdidn’t have enough money to pay the sergeant beganto viciously beat him...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 4:21:00 PM
Local people from Namhkam and Namtu Townships are being subjected to travelling longer distances in order to get to their destinations as a result of the Burmese soldiers who are in charge of security for the Shwe Oil and Gas-pipeline There is not only an increase in check points, but the soldiers continually questions the villagers.
A local villager commented that on Maimaw’s Market day, on February 4th there were over two hundred soldiers that toured around the market turning it into a sea of green uniforms. It looked like there were more soldiers there than local people. This is a prime example of the massive increase of military presence...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 4:19:00 PM
Villagers were forced to be sentries by the Ta’ang autonomous region’s president, U Maung Kyaw and his colleagues during trips to check reports of land confiscation by Fry Dragon tea-drying industry. They also plan to come and listen to a religious sermon in Lun Thout village on February 4, 2012, Namhsan Township, Northern Shan State, Burma.
“I have been forced to take security for the whole night from February 3 to 4 in the jungle. I was given no support, I could only eat when a family member came to feed me” said one of the sentries.
For U Maung Kyaw’s trip, the villagers, who come from Upper Manloi, Lower Manloi and Thaungkyaw Villages,...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 4:18:00 PM
Network Activities Group’s (NAG) staff were threated and were made to give money to the SSA’s soldiers on their way back from helping Panhka’s refugees who were fleeing from the fighting and are now located in Hopan village on January 21st 2012 in Mantong Township, Kauytme District, Northern Shan State, Burma.
According to the case, When U Zaw Min Aung, who is the leader of NAG, and his four staff based in Mantong Township returned from helping Panhka’s refugees (178 people), the Shan soldiers pointed their guns to them and demanded money from them.
“The soldier spent a long time interrogating us they then ordered that one of my...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 4:16:00 PM
The local people in Namtu have to pay extra tax for using electricity by the order of the Namtu’s Ministry of Electricity in Northern Shan State, Burma. They also collect a fee of one thousand Kyats monthly for maintenance of the Meter box even though it is illegal for the authorities to do this.
“It already specifies that customers need to pay twenty five kyats per unit of electricity, but the Minister of electricity collects thirty five Kyats per unit. Therefore, local people are extremely unhappy and have refused to pay their electricity bill” said a Namtu local.
As a result, the residents were fined fifty thousand kyats and their...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 4:12:00 PM
Due to the continual fighting between the KIA and the Burmese Military in Northern Shan State especially in Ta’ang autonomy areas as well as in seven villages, the primary schools in these regions have been closed since the first week of December, 2011.
“As my children missed school, they have to repeat the same class next year. We don’t know what to do because the teachers are not coming and the local education minster hasn’t tried to resolve the problem even though they are due to take their final exams this month” explained by a parent of a student.
During the academic year of 2011-2012, students only studied from June until the end...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:33:00 PM
Media Release
Militia group led by Qian Lu and Qian Kwae Shin based in Pansay, Nanhkan Township, Mu Se Distirct in northern Shan State handcuffed U Aik Htaut Naing (aka) U Naing Swae and brutally beat him to death. The victim lived in Phar Pyant village, Saenay village track, Nanhkan Township. About 1 pm on January 3, 2012, about 60 soldiers of Light Infantry Battalion # 507 under the command of Maj Myat Tun Lin based in Lashio, northern Shan State and 20 members of Pansay militia group led by Qian Lu and Qian Kwae Shin came to Phar Pyant village, Saenay village track, Nanhkan Township. They then summoned all the villagers including...
Posted by ဆန၀္းေနာ;ေမွဲမ္း on 3:31:00 PM
Due to fighting between Burmese government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Bamor District, Mansi Township and Man Lwae village in Kachin State since December, many Palaung IDP’s are in need of help and aid.
On January 26 2012, twenty Palaung IDP’s came from Man Lwae village to the TNP office in Namkham Township. “There were twenty Palaung IDP’s who fled here from Man Lwae village, Kachin State because of the instability in their area. They asked the TNP to help them in order to be able to come and stay in Namkham Township. If the TNP doesn’t help those IDP’s, they will be in trouble” – TNP member.Even if those 306...
