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Library Human minesweeping and forced relocation as SPDC and DKBA step up joint operations in Pa'an District (English and Karen)

Human minesweeping and forced relocation as SPDC and DKBA step up joint operations in Pa'an District (English and Karen)

Human minesweeping and forced relocation as SPDC and DKBA step up joint operations in Pa'an District (English and Karen)

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Date of publication
October 2008
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ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:64616

Since the end of September 2008, SPDC and DKBA troops have begun preparing for what KHRG researchers expect to be a renewed offensive against KNU/KNLA-controlled areas in Pa'an District. These activities match a similar increase in joint SPDC-DKBA operations in Dooplaya District further south where these groups have conducted attacks against villagers and KNU/KNLA targets over the past couple of weeks. The SPDC and DKBA soldiers operating in Pa'an District have forced villagers to carry supplies, food and weapons for their combined armies and also to walk in front of their columns as human minesweepers. This report includes the case of two villagers killed by landmines during October while doing such forced labour, as well as the DKBA's forced relocation of villages in T'Moh village tract of Dta Greh township, demands for forced labourers from the relocated communities and the subsequent flight of relocated villagers to KNLA-controlled camps in Pa'an District as a means to escape this abuse; all of which took place in October 2008.

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