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These pictures were taken in April 2024 at Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. The pictures display Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, burned by the SAC’s aircraft dropping bombs into the town. All villagers fled from the town. [Photos: KHRG]
April 2024: fighting, SAC air strikes and shelling into the surrounding area of Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town
Fighting happened on April 5th and 6th 2024, at 5 am, between Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)[2] and People’s Defense Force (PDF)[3] combined troops against State Administration Council (SAC)[4] at Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. KNLA and PDF were attacking SAC’s Strategic Operations Command (SOC)[5] army camp located near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town. The fighting lasted for two days. The fighting started on April 5th 2024, from 5 am to 1 pm, and again on April 6th 2024, from 5 am to 12 pm. The SAC SOC army camp was captured by the KNLA and PDF. [Fighting in the town and SAC attacks on nearby villages had already occurred in March 2024[6]]
During the fighting the SAC used [different types of] aircraft, including a fighter jet, to conduct air reconnaissance and dropped bombs into the fighting surrounding area, such as A--- village, Noh Poe village tract[7], Kaw T’Ree Township.
Due to the fighting, many buildings in Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town were destroyed [burned and damaged]. Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town looked like a graveyard, filled with silence. Moreover, villagers who lived in the surrounding area of Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town were living in fear. Villagers who lived, on the southern side of the Asian Highway[8], near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, were villagers from B--- village, E--- village, A--- village, T--- village, in Noh Poe village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township. Those villagers did not dare to live in their village anymore.
The next day, on April 7th 2024, at 7 pm, an SAC fighter jet conducted air strikes into A--- village, Noh Poe village tract, destroying the house of a villager named Saw[9] C---. Half of the house’s roof and walls were destroyed. Moreover, one of the bombs landed inside a school compound, destroying one of the elementary schools in A--- village. The SAC also dropped bombs from aircraft into Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town’s surrounding area, likewise into villagers’ plantations as well. Villagers did not dare to live in their village and fled to sleep elsewhere. Therefore, as explained by a villager from A--- village, named Saw Aa---, no one was injured. [Moreover,] the SAC conducted air reconnaissance in A--- village almost every day from April to May 2024.
On April 10th 2024, fighting happened between SAC and combined soldiers of KNLA and PDF, at Infantry Battalion (IB)[10]’s #275 army camp, nearby D--- village, therefore, villagers from nearby village such as D--- village, Ra Ma Tee village tract, did not dare to live, and were not able to live, in their village. [During the fighting SAC used aircraft to drop bombs and conducted indiscriminate shelling into the surrounding area, such as D--- village]. After IB #275’s army camp was captured by the KNLA and PDF, [SAC] Aung Zeya Column[11] attacked [the armed resistance groups] to recapture the SAC’s SOC army camp near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, which was previously captured by KNLA and PDF on April 5th and 6th 2024.
May 2024: SAC shelling into E--- village, nearby Thain Gan Nyi Naung Town
On May 7th 2024, an 120mm artillery shell landed inside E--- village, Noh Poe village tract [near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town], damaging the house and rice barn of Saw F--- and Naw[12] G---. Moreover, the explosion killed two pigs belonging to Naw H---. Due to this incident, villagers were living in fear.
Additionally, due to the previous fighting in April and shelling in May, in E--- village, villagers were unable to work on their plantation fields. The number of villagers who did not dare to live in the village increased. Villagers who have durian plantations and betel nut plantations could not go to their plantations [due to the general fighting].
June and July 2024: Fighting at the Asian Highway
During June to July 2024, fighting [and other attacks including gun firing, indiscriminate shelling and air strikes] happened every week between KNLA Battalion #28 and Cobra Column[13] combined forces against SAC Aung Zeya Column, and SAC Light Infantry Division (LID)[14] #55 and #77 along the Asian Highway, in Kaw T’Ree Township. Due to the fighting, villagers from I--- village, N--- village, and Ab--- village, in Kaw Nweh village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township, did not dare to return to their villages.
Education challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
Schools were forced to close in E---, J---, K---, and L--- villages, in Noh Poe village tract. Similarly, not only schools from M---, N---, O---, L---, and P--- villages, in Kaw Nweh village tract, were also forced to close in 2024, but also schools from Q--- village, Maw Ma village tract, and R---, S---, Ac--- and Ad---villages, in Aung Hpa village tract, were to close as well. The above listed villages were unable to open their schools, therefore, many children were unable to learn. The children were unable to study due to the ongoing conflict. In other words, their rights to schooling were violated.
Education is the basic foundation of a country’s development; however, 2024-2025 academic year was disrupted [in many villages]. It violated children’s rights. The violation of children rights to education is impacting the worlds’ [future] development as well. There were parents who could not send their children to schools [due to their livelihood difficulties caused by the constant fighting as well.]
Livelihood challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
Due to the constant fighting in Kaw T’Ree Township, the number of villagers leaving their homes and plantations increased in 2024. Due to the political situation [and ongoing civil war], commodity prices in the towns had increased, in comparison, and local products’ prices had decreased. The Myanmar currency has weakened. Moreover, hyperinflation has become a challenge [for the civilians] as well.
Traveling is difficult for villagers because if villagers travel through a good [bigger, paved] road, they encounter SAC soldiers, so villagers take the mountain track. Villagers from Kaw T’Ree Township who lived near the Asian Highway, such as in ‘33 Pagodas’ (Khoh Ther Si Ther Pler) village tract, Maw Ma village tract, Aww Hpa village tract, Kya K’Wa village tract, and Ah Kyaw village tract did not dare to purchase goods from Kaw T’Ree Town so they purchase goods from Kruh Tuh Town, Kruh Tuh Township, Dooplaya District. [Villagers] did not dare to travel through the Asian Highway so they avoided using it and they travel through mountain tracks. For people who did not have vehicles to travel, it [traveling is] difficult for them.
Healthcare challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
During the rainy season, in June 2024, almost all villages from Kaw T’Ree Township were displaced to displacement sites and forests but some remained in their village. Almost every villager got seasonal flu. Due to the seasonal flu, villagers encountered challenges to travel and do work to support their livelihood.
Conclusion
The above written information has presented human rights violations in Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. As KHRG researcher was traveling in the area, this information was verified [by local villagers]. This documentation contain information from April to June [2024].
Further background reading on the situation on air strikes and shelling in Southeast Burma/Myanmar can be found in the following KHRG reports:
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The photos were taken in April 2024 at A--- village, Noh Poe village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township. An SAC’s fighter jet conducted air strikes into A--- village and destroyed a villager’s house and one elementary school on April 7th 2024. The two photos on the top show the house that was destroyed and the two photos on the bottom show an elementary school from A--- village that was damaged. [Photos: KHRG]
April 2024: fighting, SAC air strikes and shelling into the surrounding area of Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town
Fighting happened on April 5th and 6th 2024, at 5 am, between Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)[2] and People’s Defense Force (PDF)[3] combined troops against State Administration Council (SAC)[4] at Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. KNLA and PDF were attacking SAC’s Strategic Operations Command (SOC)[5] army camp located near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town. The fighting lasted for two days. The fighting started on April 5th 2024, from 5 am to 1 pm, and again on April 6th 2024, from 5 am to 12 pm. The SAC SOC army camp was captured by the KNLA and PDF. [Fighting in the town and SAC attacks on nearby villages had already occurred in March 2024[6]]
During the fighting the SAC used [different types of] aircraft, including a fighter jet, to conduct air reconnaissance and dropped bombs into the fighting surrounding area, such as A--- village, Noh Poe village tract[7], Kaw T’Ree Township.
Due to the fighting, many buildings in Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town were destroyed [burned and damaged]. Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town looked like a graveyard, filled with silence. Moreover, villagers who lived in the surrounding area of Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town were living in fear. Villagers who lived, on the southern side of the Asian Highway[8], near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, were villagers from B--- village, E--- village, A--- village, T--- village, in Noh Poe village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township. Those villagers did not dare to live in their village anymore.
The next day, on April 7th 2024, at 7 pm, an SAC fighter jet conducted air strikes into A--- village, Noh Poe village tract, destroying the house of a villager named Saw[9] C---. Half of the house’s roof and walls were destroyed. Moreover, one of the bombs landed inside a school compound, destroying one of the elementary schools in A--- village. The SAC also dropped bombs from aircraft into Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town’s surrounding area, likewise into villagers’ plantations as well. Villagers did not dare to live in their village and fled to sleep elsewhere. Therefore, as explained by a villager from A--- village, named Saw Aa---, no one was injured. [Moreover,] the SAC conducted air reconnaissance in A--- village almost every day from April to May 2024.
On April 10th 2024, fighting happened between SAC and combined soldiers of KNLA and PDF, at Infantry Battalion (IB)[10]’s #275 army camp, nearby D--- village, therefore, villagers from nearby village such as D--- village, Ra Ma Tee village tract, did not dare to live, and were not able to live, in their village. [During the fighting SAC used aircraft to drop bombs and conducted indiscriminate shelling into the surrounding area, such as D--- village]. After IB #275’s army camp was captured by the KNLA and PDF, [SAC] Aung Zeya Column[11] attacked [the armed resistance groups] to recapture the SAC’s SOC army camp near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, which was previously captured by KNLA and PDF on April 5th and 6th 2024.
May 2024: SAC shelling into E--- village, nearby Thain Gan Nyi Naung Town
On May 7th 2024, an 120mm artillery shell landed inside E--- village, Noh Poe village tract [near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town], damaging the house and rice barn of Saw F--- and Naw[12] G---. Moreover, the explosion killed two pigs belonging to Naw H---. Due to this incident, villagers were living in fear.
Additionally, due to the previous fighting in April and shelling in May, in E--- village, villagers were unable to work on their plantation fields. The number of villagers who did not dare to live in the village increased. Villagers who have durian plantations and betel nut plantations could not go to their plantations [due to the general fighting].
June and July 2024: Fighting at the Asian Highway
During June to July 2024, fighting [and other attacks including gun firing, indiscriminate shelling and air strikes] happened every week between KNLA Battalion #28 and Cobra Column[13] combined forces against SAC Aung Zeya Column, and SAC Light Infantry Division (LID)[14] #55 and #77 along the Asian Highway, in Kaw T’Ree Township. Due to the fighting, villagers from I--- village, N--- village, and Ab--- village, in Kaw Nweh village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township, did not dare to return to their villages.
Education challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
Schools were forced to close in E---, J---, K---, and L--- villages, in Noh Poe village tract. Similarly, not only schools from M---, N---, O---, L---, and P--- villages, in Kaw Nweh village tract, were also forced to close in 2024, but also schools from Q--- village, Maw Ma village tract, and R---, S---, Ac--- and Ad---villages, in Aung Hpa village tract, were to close as well. The above listed villages were unable to open their schools, therefore, many children were unable to learn. The children were unable to study due to the ongoing conflict. In other words, their rights to schooling were violated.
Education is the basic foundation of a country’s development; however, 2024-2025 academic year was disrupted [in many villages]. It violated children’s rights. The violation of children rights to education is impacting the worlds’ [future] development as well. There were parents who could not send their children to schools [due to their livelihood difficulties caused by the constant fighting as well.]
Livelihood challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
Due to the constant fighting in Kaw T’Ree Township, the number of villagers leaving their homes and plantations increased in 2024. Due to the political situation [and ongoing civil war], commodity prices in the towns had increased, in comparison, and local products’ prices had decreased. The Myanmar currency has weakened. Moreover, hyperinflation has become a challenge [for the civilians] as well.
Traveling is difficult for villagers because if villagers travel through a good [bigger, paved] road, they encounter SAC soldiers, so villagers take the mountain track. Villagers from Kaw T’Ree Township who lived near the Asian Highway, such as in ‘33 Pagodas’ (Khoh Ther Si Ther Pler) village tract, Maw Ma village tract, Aww Hpa village tract, Kya K’Wa village tract, and Ah Kyaw village tract did not dare to purchase goods from Kaw T’Ree Town so they purchase goods from Kruh Tuh Town, Kruh Tuh Township, Dooplaya District. [Villagers] did not dare to travel through the Asian Highway so they avoided using it and they travel through mountain tracks. For people who did not have vehicles to travel, it [traveling is] difficult for them.
Healthcare challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
During the rainy season, in June 2024, almost all villages from Kaw T’Ree Township were displaced to displacement sites and forests but some remained in their village. Almost every villager got seasonal flu. Due to the seasonal flu, villagers encountered challenges to travel and do work to support their livelihood.
Conclusion
The above written information has presented human rights violations in Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. As KHRG researcher was traveling in the area, this information was verified [by local villagers]. This documentation contain information from April to June [2024].
Further background reading on the situation on air strikes and shelling in Southeast Burma/Myanmar can be found in the following KHRG reports:
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The pictures were taken in April 2024 at D--- village, Ra Ma Tee village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. The pictures show that villagers’ houses were destroyed due to air strikes conducted by the SAC while fighting happened between SAC and combined soldiers of KNLA and PDF at the SAC IB #275 army camp.[Photos: KHRG]
April 2024: fighting, SAC air strikes and shelling into the surrounding area of Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town
Fighting happened on April 5th and 6th 2024, at 5 am, between Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)[2] and People’s Defense Force (PDF)[3] combined troops against State Administration Council (SAC)[4] at Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. KNLA and PDF were attacking SAC’s Strategic Operations Command (SOC)[5] army camp located near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town. The fighting lasted for two days. The fighting started on April 5th 2024, from 5 am to 1 pm, and again on April 6th 2024, from 5 am to 12 pm. The SAC SOC army camp was captured by the KNLA and PDF. [Fighting in the town and SAC attacks on nearby villages had already occurred in March 2024[6]]
During the fighting the SAC used [different types of] aircraft, including a fighter jet, to conduct air reconnaissance and dropped bombs into the fighting surrounding area, such as A--- village, Noh Poe village tract[7], Kaw T’Ree Township.
Due to the fighting, many buildings in Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town were destroyed [burned and damaged]. Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town looked like a graveyard, filled with silence. Moreover, villagers who lived in the surrounding area of Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town were living in fear. Villagers who lived, on the southern side of the Asian Highway[8], near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, were villagers from B--- village, E--- village, A--- village, T--- village, in Noh Poe village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township. Those villagers did not dare to live in their village anymore.
The next day, on April 7th 2024, at 7 pm, an SAC fighter jet conducted air strikes into A--- village, Noh Poe village tract, destroying the house of a villager named Saw[9] C---. Half of the house’s roof and walls were destroyed. Moreover, one of the bombs landed inside a school compound, destroying one of the elementary schools in A--- village. The SAC also dropped bombs from aircraft into Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town’s surrounding area, likewise into villagers’ plantations as well. Villagers did not dare to live in their village and fled to sleep elsewhere. Therefore, as explained by a villager from A--- village, named Saw Aa---, no one was injured. [Moreover,] the SAC conducted air reconnaissance in A--- village almost every day from April to May 2024.
On April 10th 2024, fighting happened between SAC and combined soldiers of KNLA and PDF, at Infantry Battalion (IB)[10]’s #275 army camp, nearby D--- village, therefore, villagers from nearby village such as D--- village, Ra Ma Tee village tract, did not dare to live, and were not able to live, in their village. [During the fighting SAC used aircraft to drop bombs and conducted indiscriminate shelling into the surrounding area, such as D--- village]. After IB #275’s army camp was captured by the KNLA and PDF, [SAC] Aung Zeya Column[11] attacked [the armed resistance groups] to recapture the SAC’s SOC army camp near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town, which was previously captured by KNLA and PDF on April 5th and 6th 2024.
May 2024: SAC shelling into E--- village, nearby Thain Gan Nyi Naung Town
On May 7th 2024, an 120mm artillery shell landed inside E--- village, Noh Poe village tract [near Thin Gan Nyi Naung Town], damaging the house and rice barn of Saw F--- and Naw[12] G---. Moreover, the explosion killed two pigs belonging to Naw H---. Due to this incident, villagers were living in fear.
Additionally, due to the previous fighting in April and shelling in May, in E--- village, villagers were unable to work on their plantation fields. The number of villagers who did not dare to live in the village increased. Villagers who have durian plantations and betel nut plantations could not go to their plantations [due to the general fighting].
June and July 2024: Fighting at the Asian Highway
During June to July 2024, fighting [and other attacks including gun firing, indiscriminate shelling and air strikes] happened every week between KNLA Battalion #28 and Cobra Column[13] combined forces against SAC Aung Zeya Column, and SAC Light Infantry Division (LID)[14] #55 and #77 along the Asian Highway, in Kaw T’Ree Township. Due to the fighting, villagers from I--- village, N--- village, and Ab--- village, in Kaw Nweh village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township, did not dare to return to their villages.
Education challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
Schools were forced to close in E---, J---, K---, and L--- villages, in Noh Poe village tract. Similarly, not only schools from M---, N---, O---, L---, and P--- villages, in Kaw Nweh village tract, were also forced to close in 2024, but also schools from Q--- village, Maw Ma village tract, and R---, S---, Ac--- and Ad---villages, in Aung Hpa village tract, were to close as well. The above listed villages were unable to open their schools, therefore, many children were unable to learn. The children were unable to study due to the ongoing conflict. In other words, their rights to schooling were violated.
Education is the basic foundation of a country’s development; however, 2024-2025 academic year was disrupted [in many villages]. It violated children’s rights. The violation of children rights to education is impacting the worlds’ [future] development as well. There were parents who could not send their children to schools [due to their livelihood difficulties caused by the constant fighting as well.]
Livelihood challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
Due to the constant fighting in Kaw T’Ree Township, the number of villagers leaving their homes and plantations increased in 2024. Due to the political situation [and ongoing civil war], commodity prices in the towns had increased, in comparison, and local products’ prices had decreased. The Myanmar currency has weakened. Moreover, hyperinflation has become a challenge [for the civilians] as well.
Traveling is difficult for villagers because if villagers travel through a good [bigger, paved] road, they encounter SAC soldiers, so villagers take the mountain track. Villagers from Kaw T’Ree Township who lived near the Asian Highway, such as in ‘33 Pagodas’ (Khoh Ther Si Ther Pler) village tract, Maw Ma village tract, Aww Hpa village tract, Kya K’Wa village tract, and Ah Kyaw village tract did not dare to purchase goods from Kaw T’Ree Town so they purchase goods from Kruh Tuh Town, Kruh Tuh Township, Dooplaya District. [Villagers] did not dare to travel through the Asian Highway so they avoided using it and they travel through mountain tracks. For people who did not have vehicles to travel, it [traveling is] difficult for them.
Healthcare challenges in Kaw T’Ree Township:
During the rainy season, in June 2024, almost all villages from Kaw T’Ree Township were displaced to displacement sites and forests but some remained in their village. Almost every villager got seasonal flu. Due to the seasonal flu, villagers encountered challenges to travel and do work to support their livelihood.
Conclusion
The above written information has presented human rights violations in Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. As KHRG researcher was traveling in the area, this information was verified [by local villagers]. This documentation contain information from April to June [2024].
Further background reading on the situation on air strikes and shelling in Southeast Burma/Myanmar can be found in the following KHRG reports: