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...
