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URGENT RELEASE: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS UPDATE FOR KACHIN STATE AND NORTHERN SHAN STATE

at 4/14/2014 07:52:00 PM

Posted by khonja

Dear Colleagues, Partners and Friends

The Joint Strategy Team for Humanitarian Response in Kachin & Northern
Shan States has issued the following statement (also attached as PDF
document) on current Humanitarian crisis in Man Win Gyi areas and
further displacement of over 3,000 IDPs and Refugee in China boarder
area this weekend.

We urge you to share this information.

Sincerely,

BRIDGE, Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC), Kachin Relief and Development
Committee (KRDC), Kachin Women Association (KWA), Kachin Development
Group (KDG), Karuna Myanmar Social Services (KMSS), Metta Development
Foundation, Shalom Foundation and Wunpawng Ninghtoi (WPN)



URGENT RELEASE: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS UPDATE FOR KACHIN STATE AND NORTHERN SHAN STATE


It has been more than 30 months since armed clashes between the
Myanmar government armed forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)
forces were first rekindled in 2011, resulting in more than 120,000
IDPs.
Despite the ongoing peace negotiations, skirmishes between the Myanmar
government armed forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have
been increasing.
Government deployed more armed troops to the current conflict area
based on the census data collection period and it has increased
tension between two armed groups. Fighting between the Myanmar
government army and the KIA broke out on 10th  April 2014 close to Man
Win Gyi, southern Kachin State. Recent, Thursday's fighting comes less
than 48 hours after a KIO delegation took part in joint talks in
Yangon involving government officials and the KIO's fellow
representatives from the National Ceasefire Coordination Team
(NCCT).The fighting has affected several villages in the area, which
is located on the borders between Kachin State, northern Shan State,
and China. Four camps are located in close vicinity to the fighting:
Man Wing Gyi Catholic Church and Man Wing Gyi Baptist Church (approx.
2,700 people), Lagat Yang (over 800 people), and Hka Hkye Zup (approx.
190 people). Many of these people have been forced to run away from
their camps. IDPs in these locations had already been displaced during
fighting in November 2013.  This will be the third displacement for
some of them.
Under this situation which threats IDPs lives and security and hampers
the peace process, the undersigning organizations, (the Joint Strategy
Team), are actively responding to the urgent needs of IDPs and their
safety and security, with additional support from UNHCR and
international organizations, and want to deliver the following urgent
key messages to all stakeholders are:
1.      We urge for an immediate cessation of hostilities: A peaceful
solution to the conflicts in Myanmar is a critical priority for the
future of the country and its people. Both parties should not violate
agreements that have been reached previously and they must implement
the agreements immediately.

2.      We call for full respect for the international humanitarian law and
human rights laws. All parties to the conflict (the Myanmar government
armed forces and the KIA) should respect the rights of civilians, and
observe the principles of distinction between civilians and combatants
and take precaution in the case of attacks to avoid civilian victims.
As well as ensuring that civilians are not exposed to any "violence to
life and person, cruel treatment and torture, outrages upon personal
dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment."

3.      Protection and safety of the internally displaced persons is an
urgent concern. The children and IDPs themselves will have been
traumatised by recent experiences. All stakeholders should ensure that
IDPs' protection needs and concerns are addressed.

4.      We urge the People's Republic of China government to respect the
principle of "non refoulement ", as stated by International
humanitarian law, as well as refugee law and refugees' rights.

5.      We call upon all international and national humanitarian
organisations and the donor community to provide the urgently needed
humanitarian assistance and advocacy support. Noting that the
displaced persons have the following immediate humanitarian needs:
protection and safe arrival to other IDP camps; access to foodstuffs,
shelter and non-food items (e.g., blankets and warm clothes). These
IDPs are seeking safety and have no other resources with them.
The facts: The above messages are based on the following facts which
are provoking this dramatic situation:
The Government Army conducted multiple attacks in the Nawng Luk, Nawng
Lum, Lahkum Pa, Nam Hka, Lagat Daw, Gawng Ngu Yang, Nam Hee and Kyawk
Hpya areas in Mansi Townshipduring these few days. The attacks reached
less than 1 kilometer from the Lagat Yang IDP camp, driving over 800
IDPs away while over 2,000 Shan, Kachin and Palaung villagers fled to
the China border. Over 200 IDPs from Lagat Yang camp and over 2,000 of
villagers from Bang Glam, Nam Hi, Na Lung, Nawng Jun, Nawng Luk and
others surrounding villages (from 24 villages) stayed at Shan Buddhist
temple, relatives home and public space of Kachin village  at Nawng
Dao village in China.Heavy bombing machine shot by Government army
shield reached to near the Lagat Yang Camp. Provoking more than 1,400
IDPs.
By today (14 April 2014), the situation along the border line in China
side is still chaotic.  People's Republic of China authorities,
allowed some IDPs to enter into China as the fighting intensified.
The refugees fled from Hka Hkye camp to Lung Krawk, across the river
in China side.   Chinese soldiers are guarding the camp at all time.

Refugees from Shan villages are desperate because they could not
finish their sugarcane harvesting. Most of the villagers in this area
are depending on sugarcane plantations for their livelihood.

14 April 2014; Yangon, Myanmar
BRIDGE, Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC), Kachin Relief and Development
Committee (KRDC), Kachin Women Association (KWA), Kachin Development
Group (KDG), Karuna Myanmar Social Services (KMSS), Metta Development
Foundation, Shalom Foundation and Wunpawng Ninghtoi (WPN)

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Hundred Displaced as Burma Army Shells Kachin Rebel Post

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Burmese government troops launched an attack in eastern Kachin State today, forcibly displacing more than 300 local residents. The fighting broke out less than 500 meters away from a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs). As the fighting continues, aid workers worry that more than 1,000 IDPs will be affected.

If the conflict spreads, the affected IDPs will likely attempt to cross the border to Yunnan Province, China only to be stopped by the Chinese and forced to stay in Burma's deadly conflict zone. http://bit.ly/1kwJ9lk

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MAI JA YANG, Kachin State — Heavy fighting between government forces and troops from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) displaced more than 300 local residents in eastern Kachin State on Thursday.

The fighting began Thursday morning when government troops attacked KIA Third Brigade positions close to Mai Ja Yang, the second-largest town controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), aid workers operating in the area told The Irrawaddy. The KIO is the political wing of the KIA.

The fighting has already displaced some 300 people from U Yang and Nam Hka villages who arrived in Man Win Gyi, a government-controlled town, on Thursday afternoon. As the fighting has continued, more are expected to arrive at the local Catholic church.

Aid workers worry that the fighting will affect more than 1,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently staying at the Lagat Yang IDP camp, which is in KIO-controlled territory. Throughout the day on Thursday, Burma Army forces fired heavy artillery at a KIA position on Na Lung Bum mountain, less than 500 meters away from Lagat Yang. A few of the shells landed very near to the camp, according to staff from Wunpawng Ninghtoi (WPN), a local Kachin aid group.

Also on Thursday, a 40-year-old Shan villager named Chit Bwe from the village of Nawng Jung, very near to Lagat Yang, was injured by a shell believed to have been fired from government positions at Nawng Lum, WPN staff told The Irrawaddy.

As of Thursday afternoon, many Lagat Yang residents were preparing to head to Nan Moon, a small Shan village on the Sino-Burmese border. If the fighting spreads, they will likely try and cross into China.

Chinese authorities, however, appear reluctant to allow the IDPs to cross into neighboring Yunnan province. “We are very concerned about the safety of the IDPs,” said WPN’s director Mary Tawm.

While most of the affected IDPs are ethnic Kachin, some are also Shan and Palaung. Many of the residents of Lagat Yang were previously living at a camp in Nam Lim Pa village that came under attack by the army last November. Nam Lim Pa was seized by government forces just minutes after an aid convoy from a church group affiliated with the Burmese Catholic church entered the KIO-controlled village via government territory.

In a related development, the road from the government town of Man Win Gyi to the Chinese town of Nandau was closed by Burmese government authorities, potentially complicating efforts by humanitarian groups trying to reach the newly arrived IDPs.

Thursday’s fighting comes less than 48 hours after a KIO delegation led by Gen. Gun Maw took part in joint talks in Rangoon involving government officials and the KIO’s fellow representatives from the National Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT).

Fighting has been on and off between the ethnic Kachin rebels and government troops since June 2011, when a 17-year ceasefire agreement between the two sides collapsed.

by-irrawady blog

A Kachin man named Sumlut Gun Gam from Northern Shan Sate''was found severely injured due to torture and beaten by Myanmar Government Troops.''

A Kachin man named Sumlut Gun Gam from Northern Shan Sate, Hka Lam village in ( Wandin kapna ) was arrested by Government Troops (Tatmadaw) from Light Infantry 507 on the 25th March from his home. He was tied and severely tortured.

The village leaders requested Tatmadaw to release Sumlut Gun Gam, and he was released on the 1st of April 2014. At the time of his released, Sumlut Gun Gam was found severely injured due to torture and beaten. People thought he was already dead at the time of his release.

At this moment, Sumlut Gum Gam is heaving medication at the Hospital in Ruilli (Shweli) in China.

The issue of brutal arrest and tortured are not new to Myanmar. The people in the war zone are always scared of that type of abuses.

By-khonja

ေက်းရြာလူႀကီးမ်ားမွ ဦးဆြမ္လြတ္ဂြန္၀မ္ အားျပန္လည္လြတ္ေပးပါရန္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး သြားေရာက္ေတာင္းပန္ေျပာဆိုရာ ဧျပီ (၁)ရက္ေန ့တြင္မွ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေပးခဲ့ေႀကာင္းသိရသည္။ ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေပး၍ သြားေရာက္ေခၚေဆာင္ရာ ဦးဆြမ္လြတ္ ဂြန္၀မ္ အား ေသလုေမ်ာပါး ဒဏ္ရာ ဒဏ္ခ်က္မ်ားစြာျဖင့္ တစ္ကိုယ္လုံး ေနရာမလပ္ ရိုက္နွက္ နွိပ္စက္ကာ ေသျပီအထင္ျဖင့္ ပစ္ထား ေႀကာင္း သြားေရာက္ေခၚေဆာင္သူ ေက်းရြာလူႀကီးမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

ယခုအခါ အဆိုပါ မတရားဖမ္းဆီး နွိပ္စက္ ခံရသူ ဦးဆြမ္လြတ္ ဂြန္၀မ္အား တရုတ္ျပည္ ေရႊလီဘက္ျခမ္းရိွ ေဆးရုံတြင္ ေဆးကုသမႈ ခံယူေနေႀကာင္း သိရိွရသည္ ။ ျမန္မာ အစိုးရတပ္ မ်ား မွ ယခုကဲ့သို ့ ရြာသူရြာသားမ်ား အား မတရားသျဖင့္ ဖမ္းဆီး နွိပ္စက္မႈမ်ား အေႀကာင္းျပခ်က္မရိွ မႀကာခဏ ျပဳလုပ္ေနေသာေႀကာင့္ အဆိုပါေဒသရိွ ရြာသူရြာသားမ်ားမွာ အျမဲတမ္း စိုးရိမ္ထိတ္လန္ ့ေနႀကရေႀကာင္း သိရိွရသည္ ။

ကခ်င္အမ်ိဳးသား တစ္ဦးအား ျမန္အစိုးရတပ္ မွ မတရား ဖမ္းဆီးနွိပ္စက္

4 April 2014 post by Jade Land

ရွမ္းျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ( Wandin kapna ) ေဒသ ခါ့လန္မ္ ေက်းရြာတြင္ ေနထိုင္ေသာ ကခ်င္အမ်ိဳးသား ဦးဆြမ္လြတ္ ဂြန္၀မ္ အား ျမန္မာအစုိးရတပ္ ခလရ (၅၀ရ) တပ္ မွ မတ္လ (၂၅)ရက္ေန ့က အိမ္တိုင္ရာေရာက္ လာေရာက္ဖမ္းဆီးသြားခဲ့ျပီး ၄င္းတို ့၏ တပ္စခန္းထဲတြင္ ခ်ဳပ္ေနွာင္ထားကာ လူမဆန္စြာ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ရိုက္နွက္ နွိပ္စက္ ညဥ္းပန္းခဲ့ေႀကာင္းသိရသည္။

ေက်းရြာလူႀကီးမ်ားမွ ဦးဆြမ္လြတ္ဂြန္၀မ္ အားျပန္လည္လြတ္ေပးပါရန္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး သြားေရာက္ေတာင္းပန္ေျပာဆိုရာ ဧျပီ (၁)ရက္ေန ့တြင္မွ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေပးခဲ့ေႀကာင္းသိရသည္။ ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေပး၍ သြားေရာက္ေခၚေဆာင္ရာ ဦးဆြမ္လြတ္ ဂြန္၀မ္ အား ေသလုေမ်ာပါး ဒဏ္ရာ ဒဏ္ခ်က္မ်ားစြာျဖင့္ တစ္ကိုယ္လုံး ေနရာမလပ္ ရိုက္နွက္ နွိပ္စက္ကာ ေသျပီအထင္ျဖင့္ ပစ္ထား ေႀကာင္း သြားေရာက္ေခၚေဆာင္သူ ေက်းရြာလူႀကီးမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

ယခုအခါ အဆိုပါ မတရားဖမ္းဆီး နွိပ္စက္ ခံရသူ ဦးဆြမ္လြတ္ ဂြန္၀မ္အား တရုတ္ျပည္ ေရႊလီဘက္ျခမ္းရိွ ေဆးရုံတြင္ ေဆးကုသမႈ ခံယူေနေႀကာင္း သိရိွရသည္ ။ ျမန္မာ အစိုးရတပ္ မ်ား မွ ယခုကဲ့သို ့ ရြာသူရြာသားမ်ား အား မတရားသျဖင့္ ဖမ္းဆီး နွိပ္စက္မႈမ်ား အေႀကာင္းျပခ်က္မရိွ မႀကာခဏ ျပဳလုပ္ေနေသာေႀကာင့္ အဆိုပါေဒသရိွ ရြာသူရြာသားမ်ားမွာ အျမဲတမ္း စိုးရိမ္ထိတ္လန္ ့ေနႀကရေႀကာင္း သိရိွရသည္ ။

Lahta Sammung, Wandin kapna buga, Hkalen mare hta shanu nga ai Slg. Sumlut Gun Wang hpe Myen hpyen dap Hkly 507 kaw na rim woi mat wa let zinri da ai. 25.3.2014 shani mare kata e nan sa rim woi mat nhtawm mare salang ni hte seng ang ai ni bai hkan sagawn la ai majaw 1.4.2014 shani she bai sa lu woi la ai. Slg. Sumlut Gun Wang hpe myen hpyen ni kawn la pyi nmai mat hkra adup zinri da ngut ai hpang si sai shadu ai majaw sha she mare salang ni hpe bai sa woi la shangun ai hku re. Ya e Slg. Sumlut Gun Wang gaw Miwa Mung, Shweli mare na tsirung e tsi tsi hkam nga ai hku re. Ya na zawn myen hpyen ni jahkring hkring galaw ai majaw mare masha ni mung grai hkrit let nga nga ma ai.