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FLOCKS WITHOUT SHEPHERDS Volume 2 Issue 2 April 2004 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE COMMITTEE FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED KAREN PEOPLE (CIDKP) THIS LAND IS OUR LAND! THIS LAND IS OUR LAND! THIS LAND IS OUR LAND! THIS LAND IS OUR LAND! THIS LAND IS OUR LAND! Cover story: pages 4 and 5
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FLOCKSWITHOUT

SHEPHERDS

Volume 2 Issue 2 April 2004

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE COMMITTEE FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED KAREN PEOPLE (CIDKP)

THIS LAND IS OUR LAND!THIS LAND IS OUR LAND!THIS LAND IS OUR LAND!THIS LAND IS OUR LAND!THIS LAND IS OUR LAND!

Cover story:pages 4 and 5

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Human rights won’t be won by silence!

April is a month of festivals and religious ceremonies for many of the world’speople. Christians celebrate Easter and throughout Asia, the Songkran NewYear water festival is enjoyed. The recent promises of peace from the

Burmese military dictators should also have brought hope and happiness to thepeople of Burma. But unfortunately, talk is cheap.

Eyewitness reports from inside Karen State confirm that in spite of ceasefiresagreements and talks of national conventions nothing has changed for Burma’ssuppressed ethnic people.

People are still being forced from their homes. In March as many as 10,000 Karenvillagers were forcibly relocated. Burmese government troops have taken advantageof the ceasefire to take control and occupy new territory. They are busily buildingroads, army camps and moving munition supplies and heavy weapons to areasformerly under Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) jurisdiction.

Internally displaced people are fearful. Once secure hideaways are now known andare easy to locate by the army. According to informed KNLA sources the SPDChave so far gained more from the ceasefire than the Karen.

The Burmese army has increased its demands for forced labour, food supplies andtimber from Karen villagers. In Taungoo District 468 families from eight villageswere forced to relocate by government troops to where 4590 internally displacedpeople were already living in overcrowded conditions. Food shortage and medicalcare are at critical levels. The list of human rights abuses and atrocities continue togrow.

In Tan-ta-bin township 628 families consisting of 3362 people from 15 villageswere forced to relocate by SPDC troops to move from their villages.

On 2nd of April 2004, the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO) released a report“Shattering Silences” that documents the rape of 125 Karen women. The releasebrought a torrent of denials from the Burmese dictators and accusations that theKWO were trying to derail the peace process.

But if the generals want or desire a genuine peace and a move to democracy theyneed to understand that it can only come with openness, honesty and a commitmentto put an end to the abuse, torture, jailing of political opponents and killing of itscitizens.

In spite of the documented proof of the Burmese armies campaign to keep abusingKaren villagers our people still hope for a peaceful settlement and an end to the 55-year conflict. This April issue of CIDKP Newsletter brings a message of hope anda story of courage from Karen villagers who overcome enormous hardships to tryto feed, educate and make a life for their children in jungle hideouts.

CIDKP

P.O Box 22Maesot 63110Tak, Thailand

Central

Phone (66) 055 531330 (66) 015328433 Fax: (66) 055 531330

Email: [email protected]

NorthernPhone: (66) 053 681854

Fax: (66) 053 681854

SouthernP.O. Box 11

Kanchanaburi 71000Thailand

Phone: (66) 034 517213Fax: (66) 034 517213

Email: [email protected]

BLEEDIN’ HEART MEDIA

Cover picture:Karen children worryabout their future

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The fighting may have stoppedwhile the ceasefire talks are on

but according to reports from insideKaren State the Burmese army hasincreased its activities. Saw MuNar Poe, a villager from PaguDistrict, walked five days overmountains and across rivers to bringCIDKP Newsletter this eyewitnessaccount.

Since the ceasefire the shooting hasstopped but the SPDC has takenadvantage of the situation to movemore soldiers to our district. The

KNLA are obeying orders not tofight, but find it hard to stand by andwatch troops forcing villagers tobuild new army camps, roads andbeen forced to work as porters.

Light Infantry Brigade (LIB) 73, 234and 599 issued orders to 600villagers from Naung Bo(Ko Nee).They have been moved to aresettlement area that is alreadyovercrowded. The ceasefire hasn’t

stopped SPDC soldiers from killing.In February this year, 10 Karenvillagers were arrested and beatento death by soldiers. The villagerswere forced to live in the jungle afterbeing told to relocate and wherereturning from their old farms whencaught by the soldiers.

As many as 10,000 villagers havebeen forced off their land andrelocated. These villages were wellestablished. Many ancestors wereburied there. They lost everything.Schools, graveyards, temples,

churches clinics and crops. It onlyhappened because the KNLA can’tdo anything while the ceasefire talksare on.

We are not sure why we are moved.We pay bribes to stop the relocationsbut we still have to move. Evenwhen we’ve been moved we stillhave to pay tax and work for free asporters. Most of the forcedrelocations have been close to army

Burmese soldiers destroy Karen villagescamps or a car road. It’s similar nowto the Four Cuts campaign used tostop support for the KNLA.

In our district KNLA soldiers areconfused. If the ceasefire is genuinewhy are the Burmese soldiers stillabusing and killing Karen? To add totheir worries the SPDC recently drovea100 trucks that brought 1,000 newsoldiers, supplies and ammunition toour area.

It’s now very easy for the soldiers tofind villagers hiding in the jungle and if

they find them they shoot them. On the29th of February a male villager wasshot dead. The soldiers demandmoney for sentry protection andforced labour. Internally displacedpeople are still suffering. We needinternational help to make the talkswork. At the moment we’redisadvantaged but we hope theceasefire will eventually bring benefitsand genuine peace.

On the run withnowhere to hide!

FRONTLINE NEWS

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The villagers of Law Thi Hta havehad enough of being forced to

run and hide in jungles. Villageheadman Kaw K’Taw says hispeople have come here from all overKaren State.

‘We’re like scattered leaves. We’vebeen running a long time, so manyplaces, I don’t remember how many.We all come from different villagesthat were burnt by the SPDC. Nowwe will build a new village. We willhave our school and clinic and we

will plant our [rice] paddy andvegetables. Our old homes areunsafe because of mines.’

Kaw K’Taw looks around at theproud faces of his people as theychopped weeds out of newly burntjungle, cleared so they can buildhouses, grow food, tobacco and fruittrees.

‘This is better than living like animalsin the jungle. Here we get securityfrom the KNLA, and that’s good

This landbecause we can trust them. We’restill IDP’s and we dare not leavehere. Without the KNU protectionwe could not live here. The SPDCare less than two hours away.’

According to Kaw K’Taw their newvillage is a symbol of hope.

‘We have settled here in our ownland. This is our land. We arestaying. This is our hope for ourchildren’s future. Here we are freefrom fear. It’s the first time for solong.’

As he runs his hands through thethick ash still smouldering in placesfrom the clearing Kaw K’Taw says.

‘We will build a school and later aclinic. What we can do will dependon donations, but we have plenty ofenergy.’

Kaw K’Taw good friend Saw Kuagrees and says.

‘We will work hard to give ourchildren security and a future. Bydoing this hard work now we arebuilding the future and we’re doingit by standing on our own feet.’

Kaw K’Taw says the villagers aregetting real satisfaction fromworking on the land.

‘This is so much better than being arefugee in another country. Here wedon’t have the problems faced bypeople living in refugee camps. It’smore secure and we have a widerchoice of food to feed our children.’

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The evidence of how fertile and howbusy the villagers of Law Thi Htahave been is all around us.

Tobacco plants grow tall, fat juicytomatoes ripen on the vine, corn,eggplants and beans burst like greenclouds across the charred earth. KawK’Taw says.

‘We’re farmers. We’re longing forpeace but we don’t know if theceasefire will last, but we hope itdoes.’

Hsa Ka Paw, 20 and his best friendEh Naw Say, 18, unlike many youngpeople are happy too live withoutthe sounds of television and radios.

‘We have the sounds of birds, theriver and the wind and if you listenthey’re beautiful.’

Hsa Ka Paw says.

‘I don’t get bored. After a hard dayfarming with my Pa, I swim in theriver and play my guitar and sing. Ialso have to study.’

Eh Naw Say says having Hsa KaPaw as a friend is good way to sharethe good and the bad times.

‘We’ve been running all our livesfrom the Burmese soldiers. I’mhappy here with Hsa Ka Paw. Wefarm together. We’re now clearing

and preparing the ground forcultivation. And after a hard day inthe hot fields it’s great having theriver to keep cool.’

The two friends also enjoy huntingand foraging for food in the jungle.

‘We made a gun and we hunt wildanimals…birds and squirrels, but wehave to be careful of landmines.’

The sound of silence is welcome

is our land!

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Pregnant women forced to live injungle hideouts are at risk

because they can’t accessappropriate healthcare.Saw Min Chit Thu’s is now fivemonth and his mother says.‘When I gave birth we had no medic,medicine or healthcare. I had an itchand rash because I lacked vitamins.I still have it.’She says she suffered throughout herpregnancy because she was runningand hiding from Burmese soldiers.‘I came to Law Thi Hta and hopemy life and my baby’s will now bebetter.’The young mother points to an angrylooking rash covering her five monthbaby’s face and says.‘I have no money. I have no diapers,food, medicine or security. I worryabout my baby’s future.’According to Tee Per is a medicfrom Nyang-lay-bin (Kler-lwee-htoo) district healthcare forinternally displaced Karen people isa problem the KNU is trying toaddress.‘In our district KNU built fourhospitals. We try to care and lookafter the health of our people. In ourarea the central CIDKP team alsohelped us by providing two mobilehealth clinics to treat IDP patients.’‘We try our best to help treatpatients. We get some patientscoming to the hospitals but otherpatients ask our health workers totreat them at their houses. Westruggle to find enough medicine andas a result many patients have todepend on traditional and herbalmedicine. We have many patientswho should not die but do because

of a lack of basic drugs such asantibiotics and malaria treatments.We just don’t have the medicine.’Tee Per says health workers alsovisit villagers to give healtheducation and training. ‘We try to get them to be able tocare for themselves. The villagersget a great deal of health educationso they can take care of themselves,but the constant activity of theBurmese army against them is aproblem. They are always on the run,

Our babies are born to sufferhave no secure home and under theseconditions it’s hard to follow healtheducation strategies. Those whoshouldn’t be sick are. The mostcommon health problems aremalaria, oedema, diarrhea, dysenteryand anaemia.’According to Tee Per, all that isneeded to improve the health of hispeople a is a secure and stableenvironment, access to medicine andhealth services.

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Naw Peh says looking after andcaring for eight children whilerunning and hiding from Burmesesoldiers is hard work, especiallywhen they get sick.‘I've never known a safe home. SinceI’ve been married we have had toflee and avoid soldiers all the time.It’s no way to bring up children.’Naw Peh, 38, now lives in Law ThiHta, a new internally displacedvillage under the protection of theKNLA.Naw Peh says she is exhausted fromthe years of caring for sick childrenon the run.‘When my children get sick I do thebest I can to take care of them. Attimes it's hard to survive.’Naw Peh says living in the junglemade it hard to get medicine and it'shard to find or to buy.‘When my son Dee Di was three hedied because there was no medicineto give him.Naw Peh says having so manychildren placed a burden on herfamily.‘We never had sufficient clothing foreveryone. Every time the armychased us we had to leave ourpossessions behind.’Without mosquito nets it is nosurprise that the most commonillness her children suffered weremalaria, bronchial coughs andasthma. The family moved closer tothe Thai border.‘Here I can make charcoal and sellto buy medicine for my children.’According to Naw Peh when herchildren are sick she has to risk

crossing over into Thailand to go toa clinic.‘It costs a lot of money and we haveno money. I’m worried my childrenmight die.’ Until now Naw Peh lived with herchildren in the jungle.'It was full of mosquitoes, the waterwas not clean and it was full ofgerms. One or two of my childrenwere always sick at the same time.It was exhausting. I got no sleep.’Saw Sa Tay, responsible for healthcare at Law Thi Hta village says.‘The most common disease villagersface are malaria, diarrhea and chestinfections. These illness also dependon the season.’Saw Sa Tay has been given theresponsibility for patients at Law ThiHta and says that there is a hospital,but the area was not secure due tothe activities of the Burmese army.

‘The hospital does not have enoughmedicine. We try our best to lookafter patients, but since there is notenough medicine patients die.'Naw Peh says.‘If there is no medic my children andme have a great problem. If therewas no Backpack Health team ourvillagers have a great problem. Mychildren are alive because of theirwork. I’ve been running since1983,now I hope I can finally stop.’In spite of difficulties sheexperienced Naw Peh doesn't wantto live in a refugee camp.‘We came to Law Thi Hta for onlyone month. But I feel it will be betterfor my children here. We have so farsurvived the abuse and killings of theBurmese army. For now Law ThiHta is our home.’

Mother finds hope in Law Thi Hta

HEALTH

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Naw Norin stands amongst thecharred remains of a bamboo jungle,stretches her arms and says.‘This is where we will build ourschool. We don’t have buildingmaterials yet. We need posts, floors,walls and a roof. We also need pens,books and reading materials. Butwe do have plenty of students, lotsof enthusiasm and hope.’Naw Norin, 21, came to the borderto get further education and to tryto secure a better future for herself.‘But when I arrived I saw my peoplewere facing many difficulties. Thechildren had no school. It created apressure inside for me until I decidedto help by becoming aschoolteacher.’Until the new school is built at LawThi Hta, Naw Norin will continueto teach at an IDP primary schoolat the nearby village of Thay-ka-ya.‘The school has 75 students and I’mone of six teachers. Each teacherreceives a wage of 600baht a month(US$15) from Christian FreedomInternational (CFI). They also assistwith some teaching materials.’According to Naw Norin theyschool needs more funds andassistance than they receive.‘We can only teach the students toFourth standard, after passingFourth standard the students cannotcontinue their study in our school.After this they either stop studyingor try to go to a refugee campschool.’Naw Norin says getting furthereducation is difficult for IDP students.‘Since many IDP parents are noteducated and have had to strugglefor their daily lives they want to

encourage their children to studyand get an education. But they haveonly a few ways to make an income.Many make charcoal to sell acrossthe border in Thailand and somegrow tobacco but they don’t makeenough to be able to afford toeducate their children.’Naw Norin says when the studentsfinish their schooling theiropportunity to learn vanishes.‘Many want to continue to stay inschool but since their parents cannotsupport them, they leave to helptheir parents work and to sellcharcoal and tobacco in Thailand.The money they get they use to buyfood, mainly rice and salt.’Naw Norin is excited about theprospect of building and running anew school at Law Thi Hta.‘In the first year the new school willbe only First standard but each yearwe will try to increase it by anothergrade. I hope our plans will besuccessful, as it will save the childrena long trip to Thay-ka-ya. Althoughthere may be many difficulties I willtry my best to educate the children.I hope I will be a person who canlead them to a better future.’Luckily, Naw Norin will not have towork alone. She will work under theguidance of and have the support ofNaw Htoo Lar, the headmistress atThay-ka-ya.Naw Htoo Lar has the overallresponsibility for the proposed newschool and says.‘The school does not receiveassistance from any organisation. Itwill be built through the enthusiasmof parents and teachers. Law Thi Htaparents are concern about the

education and future development oftheir children.’Headmistress Naw Htoo Lar says.‘It will be difficult. We don’t haveany support from outsideorganisations but we are notdiscouraged. These children need afoundation in their lives. They havebeen scattered from many differentplaces. We all have to work to feedour families, me included. So I amgrateful for the support of my nieceNaw Norin who will do most of theteaching.’Naw Norin says Naw Htoo Lar isan inspiration to both her and themothers of Law Thi Hta.‘She brings us hope.’

Teacher builds school of hope

Our school will growfrom these ashes

EDUCATION

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Internally displaced people (IDP’s) inBurma face death when trying to find

food for their hungry children.According to Saw Mu Na Poe, nowa slash and barn farmer from Hkeh-der village, feeding a family of fivewhile hiding in the jungle is hard.‘Before I was forced to live in thejungle I had a rice fields, betel nutand fruit tree plantations. But theBurmese army burnted my villageand set up camp. I fled my villageand farm. I made a slash and burnfarm but they destroyed it. Now wenever have enough food.’Saw Mu Na Poe says when soldiers findvillagers they are shot to death.‘If captured, we're beaten to death, ourhouses are burnt and destroyed. Ourrice stores are burnt and our animalskilled for meat.’Trying to avoid being seen by Burmesesoldiers keeps IDPs villagers on aconstant alert.‘When we hear SPDC troops we fleeto the jungle. We abandon our farms,villages and this makes storing food forfuture use a problem.’Saw Mu Na Poe says villagers haveto depend on slash and burn methodsthat destroys forests and soil.'In the rainy season we have to findbamboo shoots to cook with rice.Sometimes when there is no food toeat our children beg for food. Thiscauses great distress for the parents.‘To feed and soothe our youngchildren we go and dig wild rootsand bamboo shoot to boil.’Saw Mu Na Poe says. ‘We fear SPDC troops the most. Westay in places where travelling isdifficult. We find valleys betweenmountains and deep jungle. This

FOOD SECURITY

gives us some protection form thesoldiers.’Saw Mu Na Poe says in KNUcontrolled area, KNLA soldiers givethem some protection.‘Since the ceasefire the KNLAcannot shoot SPDC soldiers. Before[ceasefire] KNLA troops used hitand run attacks and when we heardthe sound of gunshots we had timeto escape. Now we don’t haveprotection. We dare not showourselves to the Burmese troops.’Saw Mu Na Poe says Burmesesoldiers have taken control of moreareas sincethe ceasefire.

Lets us grow our food'Because the KNLA are not allowedto fight our land is smaller andsmaller. It is now more difficult towork, to find food, to hide. We don’twant to run and hide anymore. Wewant to see peace.’Saw Mu Na Poe says villagers arenot convince the ceasefire isgenuine.‘How do we know if it is real? Butwe are concerned it is a trick of theSPDC to bring all IDPs under theircontrol. If that’s the case we willhave no freedom or rights to live ashuman beings.’

Leave us in peace to grow food for our families

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According to Saw Tay Tay,secretary of the Karen Refugee

Committee (KRC) resettlement ofrefugees from Burma will not takeplace in the near future.‘It will take time. It will depend onpolitical changes in Burma andguarantees for the security ofrefugees. There is no current planfor repatriation of refugees. Thereason for that is simple - the rulinggovernment has not made anychanges yet.’Saw Tay Tay says that for the KRCto be able to formulate a plan, theyneed to know what the rulinggovernment’s thinking is.‘They are the one creating atrocities,oppressing villagers and destroyingthe properties. They are violatinghuman rights of villagers forcingthem to flee their homes and live asrefugees in other countries. In orderto live with some human dignity,refugees have to rely on help andprotection of others.’

RESETTLEMENT

Resettlement still a distant dreamSaw Tay Tay says refugees have norights.‘They cannot go where they wantand cannot do anything but stay inthe camps. In order to repatriatethem to their place of origin therewill have to be honest talks, concretediscussions and guarantees.’Saw Tay Tay says talks with thevarious governments involved andvarious organisations that supportand take care of the refugees willalso have to take place.‘Even though the refugees will begoing back to their own land it willcrucial that they are given care andsupport for three to five years untilthey are capable of caring forthemselves.’According to Saw Tay Tay thereason these refugees fled Burmahave been well documented.‘They have lost their villages andland. When they return they willhave no homes, villages or farmland

because of their destruction andconfiscation by the regime.’Saw Tay Tay says in spite of thecurrent ceasefire between the KNUand the Burmese military there hasbeen little or no change in thesituation affecting refugees andIDP’s.‘The ceasefire is a good thing.Where there is no more fighting,there will be no more deaths. Agenuine ceasefire will be a benefitfor refugees and IDP’s and for allour people. But who knows. It maystill be a trick of the Junta so that itwill prolong their political lives. Wehope it to be genuine, but it’s tooearly to predict which it is.’Saw Tay Tay says if there is noconcrete plan and guarantees for thesecurity and welfare of refugeesrepatriation will not be possible.

Getting safely home to the othersideis not going to be quick or easy!

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Avillager Win Soe wanted todo when he went hunting in the

jungle was to find some food for hisprotein starvedfamily.‘It was only fiveweeks ago. I wasout hunting quailand took the wrongpath and steppedon a landmine. Itblew my foot off.It’s sad because Ididn’t want to goout hunting in theforest that day. ButI went because myfamily needed freshmeat.’Win Soe lives atThay-ka-ya aninternally displacedvillage and says lifeis a constantchallenge. He saysvillagers hadwarned him thatpart of the forestwas dangerous.‘I tried my best toavoid that place butI got lost. I steppedon something.There was a bigbang and I lookedat my legs and Ionly found one was left and the otherone was broken and spilling blood.I was shocked.'While Win Soe lay wounded, hisfriend went back to get help.

‘I was very worried. I had lost lotsof blood. It took two hours beforethey got back.’

But Win Soe says his greatestproblem has not been the lost of hisleg but that he can longer feed hisfamily.

Win Soe pays deadly price for food‘It’s tough on my wife. She has fourchildren to care for and now me. Wehave no money for medicine. My leg

hurts and is notrecovering well.My wife has tried toget money to buymedicine.’The local hospital isnot capable oftreating seriously illpatients.‘They have nomedicine. But mybiggest worry ishow will I feed myfamily.‘Before I could doit. To earn moneyto get food I madecharcoal, thatch forroo f ing ,hun tedwild animals andcollected vegeta-bles from theforest. I sold theseto earn money. IfI’m to help myfamily I really needto get a prosthesisfitted. Until I do Ican’t go huntingwild animals orcollecting wildvegetables in theforest anymore.’

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The promise of a ceasefireagreement between the

Burmese dictatorship and the KarenNational Union has changed little forpeople forced to hide and live injungle hideouts. Karen living in theseareas are still suffering atrocities andhuman right abuses by the Burmesearmy. Villagers are forced to labourand pay extortion money. Villagesare burnt and possessions stolen anddestroyed. Forced relocation,abductions, killings, looting andstealing are common.

These are not wild unfoundedallegation but well documentedcases of human rights violations bythe SPDC troops.

Tha-ton DistrictTroops demanded wood, looted andstole villagers’ property. Theyordered villagers to work as forcedvolunteers.

March 2004 - soldiers from SPDC314 artillery unit, led by SergeantMajor Maung Aye ordered eightpeople from Kya-ta-raw village towork at the army camp bringing.

Sergeant Major Maung Ayedemanded families of Shwe-yaung-pya village to provide largequantities of wooden polesmeasuring 18 inches in girth and 6feet in length.

Toungoo DistrictSPDC troops burnt forest hideouts andthe villager’s plantations. This has hugeproduce problems for the villagers as ithas destroyed their food supply,

clothing and shelter. The army forcedthe villagers to relocate to a new site,preventing villagers from working ontheir farms.

January 2004 - Soldiers fromSPDC Light Infantry Brigade (LIB)117, commanded by LIB 55 cameto Kaw-thay-doe village, Taw-ta-bintownship and destroyed 48 housesand looted villager’s rice, salt, fish-paste and clothing. Troopsdestroyed property worth 910,000kyat. They killed and ate villager’scats, leaving skulls in the villager’shouses. Soldiers also excreted in thehouses. Troops threatened thevillagers that they must not tellanybody about their dirty work.

March 2004 - Commander KhinSoe of SPDC southern commandHeadquarters ordered LIB 48, toburn forests on both side of themotor road from Si-hkeh-doe toPloe-mu-doe damaging villagers’betel nut and cardamom plantations.A CIDKP report in Taungoo Districtfound that in Than-daung township,468 families from 8 villages wereforced to relocate by SPDC troopsto resettlement places where 923families with 4590 people from 30villages already lived as internallydisplaced persons. In Tan-ta-bintownship 628 families from 15villages were forced to relocate bySPDC troops to resettlement placeswhere 865 families with 5348persons from 26 villages alreadylived.

Nyang-le-bin (Kler-lwee-htoo)DistrictVillagers have had to face tortureand extra-judicial killings by SPDCtroops. Looting and extortion ofproperty is also common.

February 2004 - Troops fromSPDC LIB264 arrested, looted andkilled two Pan-gan-gon villagers atKyaukkyi Township. The SPDCdivision commander Maung Niissued an order that any villagersfound in Ywa-sa-gaw and Tu-Kot-Kho areas would be shot to deathon sight.

March 2004 - SPDC LIB 30 cameto the Pagoda of Ta-paw-laymountain in Shway-gyin townshipand burned down the temple and resthouse.

March 3, 2004: Sergeant Ka Lahfrom SPDC LIB 264, led bybattalion Tin Hlaing and columncommander Win Hlaing killed sixvillagers from Kho-pu village,Kyaukkyi township. The victims

Killing, looting, burning all in a

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were: (1)Saw Htoe Kee, aged 45,(2)Saw Pu La, aged 28, (3)SawKhree Heh, aged 23, (4)Saw HtoeSee, aged 30, (5)Saw Hser Wah,aged 22 and (6)Saw Taw Nay, aged22. These villagers were arrested on26 February, 2004.

March 3, 2004: The SPDCoperation command 3 summonedheads of villages areas of Kyauk-kyitownship and ordered them to berelocated to new sites; Pay-tu andSa-leh villages to be relocated. Pa-ta-lar village to In-gyin-gon, Wet-lar-daw village to Yan-myo-aungand In-gyin-gon, villages in NoeGaw village tract to Pae-thaungvillage and Shwe-thaung villages toTaik-tu village, Nyaung-Tan villageof Thoo-ka-bee village tract to Yan-myo-aung and In-gyin-gon, Way-daw-kho village to Kyauk-sayit,Gamone-aing village and Weh-le-byin villages to Inn-net. Relocationsmust be completed by 7 March,2004. The villages appealed but theywere ignored.Ten thousand peoplewere effected due to the forcedrelocation order.

Mu-traw (Pa-pun)districtFebruary 2004 - Troops fromSPDC LIB 558, led by battalioncommander Than Naing shotvillagers at Ta-meh-lor. They killedPa-new-pa-klo villager Saw Roe Tet(18) and wounded Saw Ni Thaw(16).

March 2004 – Soldiers from SPDCLIB 410, led by Bo Aung Kyaw Moedemanded from Kyweh-kin, Law-

thaik, Kyauk-ga-din and Ah-leh-sa-kan villages that each pay 100,000kyat for growing oil palm for theBurmese army.

Pa-pun districtJanuary 2004 - Battalioncommander Myo Min Hlaing andbattalion second in command HtunOo of SPDC LIB 434 forcibly usedvillagers from Dwe-lo township;Koo-seik, Way-san, Way-mo andHtee-ber-kha-hta villages to workfor the army.

Battalion commander Aung Min andbattalion second in command SawMya Oo of SPDC, LIB 1, forcedvillagers from Ht-pa-doe, Po-mu-doe, Hsaw-bwe-doe, He-po-doeand Kyo-kho-doe to work for thearmy.

An attack by SPDC LID 55 in thenorthern part of Pa-pu district andKarenni border area forced 24schools in northern eastern Lu-thawtownship to close.

Doo-pla-ya DistrictFebruary 2004 - Troops from SPDCLIB 548 led by Tin Maung Ootorched forest areas, destroyingpaddy fields belonging to Saw ThantWah, Pah Kay lay, Saw Kho Bo andPah Set of Htee-kyot-kay villages.As many as 200 cashew nut treesbelonging to Pa Htwe Meh, 500cashew nut trees belonging to Pahpoe, 100 cashew nut trees belongingto Pah Gaw Gaw and a sugar caseplantation belonging to Saw Tha Saywere also destroyed.

Pa-an DistrictSaw Naga, a medic said that thearmy have found a new way to extortmoney from villagers. ‘The Burmesearmy wore Karen traditionalclothing and took photographs ofthemselves and forced the villagersto buy them. The villagers had to pay1,000kyat for a photograph. Thevillagers were forced to buy all ofthe photographs intended for eachvillage.’ The SPDC troops alsodistributed video CD discs to thevillages and forced villagers to buy for2500 Kyat a disc.

days work for Burmese soldiers

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Thay Ka Ya is a village of internallydisplaced people that sits on thebanks of the Moei River thatseparates Burma from Thailand. Thevillage is a mixing pot of ethnicgroups. There are Sgaw and PoKaren, Burman, Pao and Indiansliving together in the same place.They fled atrocities against them bythe SPDC army.They came frommany places inBurma when theirvillages weredestroyed. Manyhave lived herefor as long as 16years. Because ofthe civil warmany cannot goback to theirvillages.Saw Ka Done,secretary of ThayKa Ya villagesays.‘There are 100families, that’s asmany as 600people livinghere. The mainwork villagers dois as slash andburn farmers and making charcoal.They also grow cash crop such astobacco, tomatoes and corn. As theylive close to the border it is easier toearn their living compared to peopleliving far inside the country. But theyhave to work hard in order to getfood sufficient for their family.’ But living in Thay Ka Ya is not allpeace and harmony.

Different people, one village‘As our village community is madeup of many nationalities with variousreligious beliefs we have our shareof disagreements but we all staytogether in one place and havelearned to share.’Saw Ka Done says many of thevillagers would like to go back andresettle in their own place of origin

but they fear landmines andretaliation from Burmese soldiers.‘We hope the ceasefire will bring usgenuine peace. It’s time for thepeople of Burma to have a decentlife.’

If you want to find out how you can help internallydisplaced Karen people or make a donation, [email protected] or write to CIDKP PO Box 22,Mae Sot, Tak 63110 Thailand.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

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CIDKP

P.O Box 22Maesot 63110Tak, Thailand

Central

Phone (66) 055 531330 (66) 015328433 Fax: (66) 055 531330

Email: [email protected]

NorthernPhone: (66) 053 681854

Fax: (66) 053 681854

SouthernP.O. Box 11

Kanchanaburi 71000Thailand

Phone: (66) 034 517213Fax: (66) 034 517213

Email: [email protected]

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For many internally displacedKaren children education is a

distant dream. The reality of a lifeon the run and hiding in makeshiftjungle villages has robbed them ofa basic human right.Understandably parents aredesperate to give their children aneducation but many can’t. Saw MuNa Po, from Hkeh Doe villagesays.‘There is no school in my village.My three elder children are nownearly adults but even if you wrotethe Karen alphabet as big as anelephant, they cannot read it. I justcan’t afford to send them to faraway schools.’Saw Mu Na Po says he depends onhis children.‘They help me to support ourfamily to find food and to farm. ButI want our village to have a schoolso that our children will have aneducation. It is important. ButSPDC troops are close to here weare constantly fleeing and wecannot establish a school.’Saw Mu Na Po says many childrenincluding his have missed out by nothaving the chance to stay in school.‘Their lives in this world are likepeople who have been cut looseand because of their lack ofeducation and security their livesare pitiful.’Many young adults who missed outon an education feel they havedisappointed their parents and letdown their own children.A young Karen women Hken -derliving in a refugee camp on the Thai

Burma border says the difference forchildren who live in secure countriesand Karen children in Burma isenormous.‘They’re lucky. They have hope for abright future. Karen IDP children,instead of learning, have to spend theirtime hiding in the jungle, without food,clothing and shelter. They have losttheir right to education.’Khee says people in the developingworld, where human rights are takenfor granted, cannot image howdifficult it is for Karen children.‘Karen children don’t ask for muchbut they’re punished by the Burmesemilitary. All they want is aneducation and to feel safe. Theywant to study but they have tostruggle daily to find food to survive,they do not have the time oropportunity to learn.’

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