This Incident Report describes events that occurred in Moo (Mone) Township, Kler Lwee Htoo (Nyaunglebin) District in December 2022. On December 26th 2022, at about 8:00 pm, State Administration Council (SAC) soldiers indiscriminately shelled mortars at H--- village, Paw Pee Der village tract, Moo Township, Kler Lwee Htoo District, killing a 7-year-old girl on the spot when one of the mortar shells landed on her grandfather’s house. Following the incident, some of the villagers fled to their fields, huts, or to other towns, as they feared further incidents.[1]

 

 

Part 1 – Incident Details

Type of Incident

A girl was killed by State Administration Council (SAC)[2] shelling

Date of Incident(s)

December 26th 2022

Incident Location

(Village, Township and District)

H---village, Paw Pee Der village tract[3], Moo (Mone) Township, Kler Lwee Htoo (Nyaunglebin) District

Victim Information

Name

Ma[4] T---

Age

7 years old

Sex

Female

Ethnicity

Burmese

Family   

Single

Occupation

Villager

Religion

Buddhist

Position

Villager

Village

H--- village, Paw Pee Der village tract, Moo Township, Kler Lwee Htoo District 

Perpetrator Information (Armed Actors)

Name(s)           

Rank

Unit

Base

Commander’s Name

Unknown

Unknown

Light Infantry Battalion (LIB)[5] #590

Yin Aoh Sin army camp, Paw Pee Der village tract, Moo Township

Unknown

 

Part 2 - Information Quality

1. Explain in detail how you collected this information.

On January 9th 2023, a villager who witnessed this incident provided the information to a KHRG researcher. 

2. Explain how the source verified this information.

A KHRG researcher received this information from a villager who witnessed the incident.

 

Part 3 – Complete Description of the Incident

Describe the Incident(s) in complete detail. For each incident, be sure to include 1) when the incident happened, 2) where it happened, 3) what happened, 4) how it happened, 5) who was involved, and 6) why it happened. Also describe any villager response(s) to the incident, the aftermath and the current living situation of the victims. Please use the space prepared below, and create an attachment if needed.

 

On December 26th 2022, three Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)[6] soldiers [from Kler Lwee Htoo District, Battalion #8] attacked SAC soldiers based in H--- village, Paw Pee Der village tract, Moo Township, Kler Lwee Htoo District. [Later the same day,] at about 8:00 pm, SAC soldiers of LIB #590 based in Yin Aoh Sin camp, as well as SAC soldiers located in H--- village, indiscriminately shelled [several] mortar shells at H--- village, damaging a kindergarten. Some of the shelling also landed close to Saw[7] M---‘s [a villager] house and the river bank. Another mortar shell landed on U[8] A---‘s [another local villager] house and killed his granddaughter, Ma T---, a 7-year-old child. She passed away on the spot at the time of the incident [after sustaining an injury to her neck by the shrapnel]. Ma T--- stayed with her grandfather because her parents went out for work.

 

[Due to the armed clashes and the indiscriminate shelling incident mentioned above,] the villagers were afraid and stayed inside their homes. After the incident, villagers were afraid, so some fled to town, while others fled to their fields, huts, and to the nearby jungle. Some villagers dug bunkers under their homes for their safety.

 

Part 4 - Permission for Using the Details

Did the victim(s) provide permission to use this information? Explain how that permission was provided.

The villager who provided this information and the victim’s family gave KHRG permission to use it.

 

 

 

Further background reading on the security and human rights situation in Kler Lwee Htoo District in Southeast Burma can be found in the following KHRG reports:

 

Tue, 04 Apr 2023

Footnotes: 

[1] The present document is based on information received in February 2023. It was provided by a community member in Kler Lwee Htoo District who has been trained by KHRG to monitor human rights conditions on the ground. The names of the victims, their photos and the exact locations are censored for security reasons. The parts in square brackets are explanations added by KHRG.

[2] The State Administration Council (SAC) is the executive governing body created in the aftermath of the February 1st 2021 military coup. It was established by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on February 2nd 2021, and is composed of eight military officers and eight civilians. The chairperson serves as the de facto head of government of Burma/Myanmar and leads the Military Cabinet of Myanmar, the executive branch of the government. Min Aung Hlaing assumed the role of SAC chairperson following the coup.

[3] A village tract is an administrative unit of between five and 20 villages in a local area, often centred on a large village.

[4] Ma is a Burmese female honorific title used before a person’s name.

[5] A Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) comprises 500 soldiers. Most Light Infantry Battalions in the Tatmadaw are under-strength with less than 200 soldiers, yet up-to-date information regarding the size of battalions is hard to come by, particularly following the signing of the NCA. LIBs are primarily used for offensive operations, but they are sometimes used for garrison duties.

[6] The Karen National Liberation Army is the armed wing of the Karen National Union.

[7] Saw is a S’gaw Karen male honorific title used before a person’s name.

[8] U is a Burmese title used for elder men, used before their name.

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ချၢၣ်လွံၢ်ထူၣ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်သးတၢ်ပာ်ဖျါ- SAC သုးခးသံသ၀ီဖိတဂၤဖဲအစံာ်ဒဲအဃၢၤ, မူကီၢ်ဆၣ်, လါစဲးပထ့ဘၢၣ် ၂၀၂၂နံၣ်
ချၢၣ်လွံၣ်ထူၣ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်သးတၢ်ပာ်ဖျါ- SAC ခးလီၤကျိဖးဒိၣ်အဃိ ဖိသၣ်သံဝဲတဂၤ ဖဲမူကီၢ်ဆၣ်, လါဒံၤစဲဘၢၣ် ၂၀၂၂နံၣ်
ချၢၣ်လွံၢ်ထူၣ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်သးတၢ်ပာ်ဖျါ- ကီၢ်ပယီၤသုးမီၤစိရိၤခးသံပှၤသဝီ ဖိပိာ်မုၣ်တဂၤဖဲ မူကီၢ်ဆၣ် ဖဲလါနိၣ်ဝ့ဘၢၣ် ၂၀၂၂နံၣ်ပူၤ