Over the past seven months DKBA and SPDC patrols have repeatedly breached Thai sovereignty in their war against the Karen, Shan and Karenni rebels. They terrorise local Thais they suspect of harbouring sympathies. The SPDC’s latest offensives, which began in Karen State but have now pushed into Shan and Karenni States, are part of an outright bid to force armed insurgencies into submission before the 2010 elections…the SPDC would pressure insurgents weakened by the current extreme military offensives to sign ceasefire deals before next year’s poll.
- An extract from Daniel Pye, “Burma: Last Stand for Democracy?“, The Morung Express, 17 March 2009.
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1 jud // Mar 19, 2009 at 4:23 am
Karen Splinter Group Calls for Closure of Refugee Camps
http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=15324
last stand on http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/last-stand-for-burmas-democracy-movement
2 jud // Jun 12, 2009 at 10:02 pm
As of Saturday June 6th, over 3,000 villagers have fled the area of Ler Per Her IDP camp in Dta Greh Township, Pa’an District to seek refuge in neighbouring Thailand. This includes villagers fleeing joint SPDC/DKBA attacks against the KNLA as well as those fleeing forced recruitment as porters to carry supplies for SPDC and DKBA troops engaged in the fighting. This is the largest refugee exodus from Karen State on a single occasion since 1997. Also, more refugees are expected as joint SPDC/DKBA forces have advanced towards the camp of KNLA Battalion #202, about 30 kilometres north of Ler Per Her.
http://www.khrg.org/khrg2009/khrg09b6.html
3 jud // Jun 12, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Civilians are target in Burmese Army offensive in Nothern Karen State-VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/user/ehnadoh
4 jud // Jun 12, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Four hundred migrant workers and their children were arrested by Thai border guards at around 3 am, yesterday morning. The Thai border guard soldiers raided the “44 Kilo Village” in Phuphaya townsip, south of Mae Sot on the Thai-Burma border. After they arrested four hundreds migrants, including children who are studying in school, the soldiers also burnt the houses, clothes and kitchen wares of migrants in the village who had managed to escaped arrest.
http://www.ghre.org/en/
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