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Monthly Overview: Human Rights Situation in Mon State, Karen State, and Tanintharyi Region | March 2023
April 3rd, 2023 •
Author:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland
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Monthly Overview: The Military Junta Continues to Use Gendered Violence as a Tool to Suppress Dissent and Exploit Fear into Young Women and Children
April 3, 2023
Key Findings
- Inflation across all target areas has devastatingly affected civilians who cannot meet their basic needs.
- Residents reported that they were forced to take sentry duty by the junta in Kyaik Hto, Mon State and had to pay duty fees for those absent from guarding.
- Clashes have led to forced internal displacement in Burma as instability and tensions move people from their homes.
- Police and junta-backed militias continue to initiate door-to-door checks and arrest those on their wanted lists.
- Concerns have spread as the military junta begins to make decisions that would bar competing democratic parties from the next election in Burma. The military junta has been trying to change/manipulate the numbers of constituencies.
- Motorcycles, mobile devices, and money are confiscated and extorted from civilians at checkpoints stationed by the junta deliberately along critical routes. Civilians are forced to pay excessive bribes to retrieve their possessions. However, very few were able to afford the high costs.
- Torture remains rampant in Burma and across target areas where innocent civilians are subjected to gruelling, horrifying acts by the junta to extract information.
- The international community, including UN bodies and ASEAN, is not responding swiftly enough to the situation in Burma, which demands urgent attention and consequences for the junta.
- Military impunity remains deeply ingrained in the institutions representing the Tatmadaw, which only encourages the junta to continue perpetrating human rights violations.
- Children are targeted by the military junta and deprived of basic needs, including medical attention, food, education, and the right to live safely.
- The junta’s arbitrary arrests and unlawful detention are ongoing, as are warrantless raids and indiscriminate firing into civilian areas.
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