Karen Human Rights Group

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Mergui-Tavoy District Short Update: SAC soldiers forced 13 villagers to act as porters and navigators in Ler K’Saw Township (December 2023)

This Short Update describes events occurring in Ler K’Saw Township, Mergui-Tavoy District, in December 2023. On December 8th 2023, soldiers from the State Administration Council (SAC)’s Light Infantry Battalions (LIBs) #559 and #560 arrested 13 villagers and forced them to act as porters and navigators. Firstly, seven villagers from J--- village, Sa Tein village tract, were arrested, and released after they reached nearby L--- village, at villagers’ plantations. Then, the SAC soldiers arrested six villagers from L--- village and forced them to carry all the stuff that they brought and to walk in front of them. During the arrest, villagers...

Sat, 16 Nov 2024

Myanmar airstrikes indiscriminately target civilians a rights group says in a new report

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

Mergui-Tavoy District Short Update: SAC soldiers arbitrarily detained and tortured a villager at a checkpoint in Ler K’Saw Township (November 2023)

This Short Update describes events occurring in Ler K’Saw Township, Mergui-Tavoy District, in November 2023. On November 16th 2023, soldiers from the State Administration Council (SAC) Light Infantry Battalion (LIBs) #559 and #560 detained a villager from K--- village, Sa Tein village tract, Ler K’Saw Township, at the SAC checkpoint in Z--- village, Sa Tein village tract. The villager was returning from shopping in Z--- village at the time. SAC soldiers interrogated him and checked his motorbike. During the search, the SAC found yaba (methamphetamines) and opium in his motorbike seat compartment and accused him of purchasing drugs for the...

Sat, 28 Dec 2024

Emergency Lifeline : Challenges to the right to healthcare, and local efforts, in Southeast Burma (January - October 2024)

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Neglected Suffering : Sexual violence and barriers to justice faced by villagers in Southeast Burma since the 2021 coup

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Photo Set: Villagers’ displacement in Southeast Burma, and reported challenges, from January to October 2024.

This Photo Set shows photographic evidence from January 2024 to October 2024 of displaced villagers and the conditions they have to endure while internally displaced in Southeast Burma. During this period, KHRG received 1,639 photos of the situation of displacement of villagers in Southeast Burma. This Photo Set includes 57 photographs showing villagers, including children and elderly, from at least 70 villages, who fled their homes, and displays the conditions they faced while sheltering in the jungle, caves, other villages, or in temporary displacement sites. In most cases, villagers fled their homes due to State Administration Council (SAC) attacks in...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Mu Traw District Incident Report: A villager stepped on landmine planted by the SAC in Lu Thaw Township, January 2024.

This incident report describes the events that occurred in Lu Thaw Township, Mu Traw District, in January 2024. On January 24th 2024, a villager from Ab--- village, Ler Muh Plaw village tract, Lu Thaw Township, stepped on a landmine planted by the State Administration Council (SAC) in Aa--- Place in Ler Muh Plaw village tract, and was severely injured. Following the incident, he was taken to Ac--- clinic, administered by the Karen Department of Health and Welfare (KDHW), in Naw Yoh Hta village tract, where his leg was amputated. The victim is a farmer who made a living from hill...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Mergui-Tavoy District Short Update: A 32-year-old villager abused his wife in Ler K’Saw Township (November 2023)

This Short Update describes events occurring in Ler K’Saw Township, Mergui-Tavoy District, during the period of November 2023. On November 24th 2023, a 32-year-old villager from V--- village, Sa Tein village tract, Ler K’Saw Township, named Ko G---, beat his 36-year-old wife named Sayarma P---. Sayarma P--- is the principal of the school and also the bread winner for her family. The husband, who does not work, asked his wife for money and used it to buy opium and methamphetamines. When Sayarma P--- did not give him money, Ko G--- physically abused her by kicking, beating, and punching her. After...

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Mergui-Tavoy District Short Update: SAC soldiers forced 13 villagers to act as porters and navigators in Ler K’Saw Township (December 2023)

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

Mergui-Tavoy District Short Update: SAC soldiers arbitrarily detained and tortured a villager at a checkpoint in Ler K’Saw Township (November 2023)

Sat, 28 Dec 2024

Emergency Lifeline : Challenges to the right to healthcare, and local efforts, in Southeast Burma (January - October 2024)

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Kler Lwee Htoo District Incident Report: Two villagers were forcibly disappeared by SAC soldiers in Moo Township, August 2024

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We train community members to document human rights abuses on the ground, which we translate and publish in our reports to share villagers' perspectives.

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