Fwd: Update: 22nd January 2015, 6:30 PM
1 view
Skip to first unread message
Shadip Jahpang
Jan 27, 2015, 1:18:56 AM1/27/15
to world Kachin org
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Khon Ja <khonj...@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-01-22 6:10 GMT-06:00
Subject: Update: 22nd January 2015, 6:30 PM
To: khonja2014 <khonj...@gmail.com>
Hkungga ai Myit Rum ni,
Myu shayi lahkawng hte seng na, Online Shiga kaw lawm ai ni hpe
mahkawng bang dat ya nngai.
Attachment langai gaw, NLD a Hpakant majan hte seng nna, statement rai malu ai.
Hpawt de Makoi Mayang kaw, Yangon kaw nna, Women Group a gawng malai
hku nna, Susanna Hla Hla Soe hte Ningli Hkawn du na re. 8888 Peace and
Open Society kaw na Ko Mya Aye, Ko Pyone Cho, Nilar Thein hte kaga
marai 3 lung na re. Bai, Myen Mung a Woman Ambassador hku nna Rebecca
Win mung lung wa nna, shaga na re.
Mai byin yang gaw, Hpakant de Media n kau hpe woi lung lu na matu,
garum ya marit. Lam shabrai mung lajang ya ra na nhten. Myen ni gaw
Mya Waddy hpe bang da ngut chyalu rai sai.
Yawng myit ngwi simsa lu u ga. KJ
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Burmese-army-rapes,-tortures-and-kills-two-Christian-Kachin-teachers-33249.html
01/21/2015
MYANMAR
Burmese army rapes, tortures and kills two Christian Kachin teachers
by Francis Khoo Thwe
The violence took place in the village of Shabuk-Kaunghka, Shan State.
In their 20s, the two teaching volunteers had come to the village to
provide education to locals. Revenge for clashes between regular army
units and rebels appears to be the reason for the incident. Burma's
Churches condemn the crime, noting the work Christian volunteers do in
the field of education.
Yangon (AsiaNews) - The Burmese army tortured, raped and killed two
teaching volunteers from the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC). The
violence took place on Monday in the village of Shabuk-Kaunghka,
Mungbaw Township, Shan State (northeastern Myanmar).
According to preliminary reports, troops from a Light Infantry
battalion were responsible for the violence, which occurred after
Burmese army units and local rebels recently clashed in Kachin State.
Soldiers tortured and gang-raped the two Christian teaching volunteers
before brutally killing them out of revenge.
The two victims, both in their 20s, hailed from the village of Wine
Maw, in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, an area where thousands of
people continue to flee violence, attacked because of their ethnicity.
Their bodies have been brought to Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin
State, where their funeral is set for tomorrow led by the KBC, which
had sent the two women to a remote area in Shan State, to teach
village children.
In many areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, there are few public
school teachers. Christian associations, including Catholic ones, tend
to fill the educational gap through relentless and tireless work of
volunteers.
The Kachin Baptist community slammed the murder of its teachers, who
sacrificed their lives to provide am education and a better life to
people often forgotten by the authorities and the central government.
In a final farewell to the two young victims, hundreds of people
gathered in prayer to honour their selfless work.
Meanwhile, local eyewitnesses said that the army has threatened
people, warning them not to mention what happened or else their homes
could be torched and destroyed.
On condition of anonymity, Kachin Christian sources told AsiaNews that
Christian Churches have been involved in education in Burma "since the
19th century".
Christian Volunteers "have never refused to go into remote areas,
among the most marginalised people," even when civil strife raged.
"Many sacrificed their lives for the mission," the sources said, "but
never before had two teachers been raped and killed."
"Today local Churches suffered a great offence," they added, "and have
to raise their voice and demand greater protection."
Myanmar is home to more than 135 ethnic groups, who have always had to
struggle to find a peaceful modus vivendi, especially with the central
government, which is dominated by majority ethnic Burmese.
In the past, the country's military junta used an iron fist against
the Shan and Kachin people, in their respective states, which are
located on Myanmar's northern border with China.
The latest round of fighting broke out in June 2011 after 17 years of
relative calm with dozens of civilians casualties and at least 200,000
people forcibly displaced.
Last August, local bishops made an appeal for peace, calling for a
lasting solution to the conflict.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-calls-myanmar-probe-killings-kachin-women-28393788
US Calls for Myanmar to Probe Killings of 2 Kachin Women
WASHINGTON — Jan 21, 2015, 11:21 PM ET
Associated Press
The U.S. called on Myanmar to investigate the killings of two ethnic
Kachin teachers, amid allegations by activists the women were raped
and murdered by government forces.
The bloodied corpses were discovered earlier this week in a village in
northern Shan state.
A medical report indicated the volunteer teachers for the Kachin
Baptist Convention died from penetration wounds to their liver, lungs
and head, Zau Ra, secretary of the organization, told The Associated
Press by telephone Thursday.
Their private parts also had been violated, he said, adding he was
"shocked and saddened' by the news.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, was under dictatorship until 2011, and
President Thein Sein's nominally civilian government has spearheaded
the country's bumpy transition toward democratic rule. With many of
his early reforms now stalled or sliding backward, he is trying to end
decades-long civil wars in resource-rich border regions before his
term ends later this year.
The military — which in recent days has launched fresh attacks in
Kachin state, trapping more than 1,000 civilians in several villages —
has long been accused of serious abuses in fighting against ethnic
rebels.
Activists say they two teachers were raped and killed by government forces.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Wednesday called on Myanmar
authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. She said Myanmar has
told the U.S. it is looking into the case, and the facts of what
happened are still being determined.
The deaths come a week after the U.S. held a human rights dialogue
with civilian and military officials in Myanmar.
"This is the first time that our religious staff have been attacked,"
Zau Ra of the Kachin Baptist Convention told The AP from the town of
Muse, about 10 miles (16 km) from where the bodies were found Monday.
http://karennews.org/2015/01/burma-campaign-uk-kachin-teachers-raped-killed-burma-army.html/
Burma Campaign – UK: Kachin Teachers Raped And Killed By Burma Army
January 21, 2015 •
Author: Karen News
• Posted in Articles
Tags: Burma army, human rights, Kachin
Two Kachin Volunteer Teachers
The London based human rights advocacy organization, Burma Campaign
UK, confirmed reports that two ethnic Kachin teachers were raped by
Burma Army soldiers 19th and 20thJanuary.
In a media statement Burma Campaign UK called on the British
government to use its Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and send a
team to Burma “to investigate the case.”
Burma Campaign UK urged the British government to stop its current
training program with the Burma Army.
The Burma Campaign UK alleged that, “two female Kachin teachers, both
20-years-old and from the Kachin Baptist Convention, were brutally
raped and killed by the Burmese Army overnight on 19th/20th January.
The attack took place in Kaunghka village, Northern Shan State.”
Since 2011 the region, where the murders and rape took place, has been
one of, when the Burma Army broke a 17 ceasefire with the Kachin
Independence Army.
Burma Campaign UK claimed that, “Burma Army soldiers committing rape
and sexual violence are able to do so with impunity.”
The Burma Campaign UK cite the Women’s League of Burma recent report –
If they had hope, they would speak – that documented 118 cases of
sexual violence against ethnic women by the Burmese military since
2010.
Other groups and organisations including the United Nations have urged
the Burma government to investigate cases of sexual violence.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, requested the Burmese government
to fully investigate such cases.
Burma Campaign UK said that despite the calls for investigations, “the
government has failed to do so. The Burmese government has also failed
to implement any of the provisions of the Declaration to End Sexual
Violence in Conflict, which it signed last year.”
Burma Campaign UK in its statement said that “as a result of the
ongoing impunity, women’s organisations in Burma, Burma Campaign UK
and other NGOs are calling for an independent international
investigation into these incidents of sexual violence, many of which
meet the legal definition of war crimes. The British government has
refused to support such an investigation, in contravention of its own
stated goal of ending impunity for sexual violence in conflict.”
The Burma Campaign UK said that the British government could do more
to pressure Burma’s government and pointed to its ongoing training
program with the Burma Army.
The London based advocacy group said that the UK government had
started its contentious training program “without placing any
requirements that the Burmese Army agree to reforms and end impunity
for sexual violence and rape committed by its soldiers. The British
government has no system in place to ensure the soldiers trained using
British taxpayers money have not been involved in rape or other war
crimes.”
The Burma Campaign UK said pressure from within the British Parliament
forced the British government to include “Burma in its Preventing
Sexual Violence Initiative, but it has carefully targeted projects in
Burma that avoid directly addressing the use of rape and sexual
violence by the Burmese Army, apparently for fear of offending the
Burmese government, from which it is trying to secure trade and
investment agreements for British companies.”
Zoya Phan, the campaigns manager at Burma Campaign UK said that the,
“brutal rape and killing of these two Kachin teachers is just one of
the many examples of how the Burmese Army is still using rape as a
weapon of war.”
Ms Phan claimed that the “international community has mostly been
silent about the ongoing use of rape by the Burmese Army, and this has
encouraged the Burmese Army to think they can keep getting away with
these crimes.”
Ms Phan urged the UK government and the international community “to
support investigation into rape and sexual violence in Burma. The
British government, which claims ending sexual violence in conflict is
a top foreign policy goal, must stop avoiding tackling this issue in
Burma, and insist on sending a team of experts to investigate this
case.”
Ms Phan said the British government had to more to pressure the Burma
government to stop sexual violence by its military.
“It is simply not good enough for the Foreign Office to keep insisting
the Burmese government carry out its own investigation when it knows
that a genuine investigation is extremely unlikely. In the UK we don’t
ask criminals to investigate their own crimes.”
http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/78164
ကခ်င္ဆရာမ ၂ ဦးအေလာင္း ျမစ္ႀကီးနားကုိ သယ္ေဆာင္
By ေအးႏိုင္
22 January 2015
Print
Email
ရွမ္းျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း မူဆယ္ခရိုင္ ၾကဴကုတ္ (ပန္ဆိုင္း)ၿမိဳ႕နယ္
ေကာင္းခါးရြာမွာ သတ္ခံရသူ ဆရာမႏွစ္ဦးရဲ႔ ရုပ္အေလာင္းကို
ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္က ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ကို
ေမာ္ေတာ္ယာဥ္တန္းနဲ႔ သယ္ေဆာင္ပါတယ္။
မူဆယ္ေဆးရုံကေန မေန႔ညေန ၄ နာရီက စတင္သယ္ယူလာၿပီး ကြတ္ခိုင္ၿမိဳ႕အ၀င္မွာ
ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔ မသယ္ဖို႔ တားျမစ္ေပမယ့္ ၀တ္ျပဳၿပီး ဆက္လက္သယ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့တဲ့
လမ္းတေလွ်ာက္မွာ ကခ်င္ေဒသခံေတြက ေစာင့္ႀကိဳၿပီး အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ ရပ္တန္႔ေရး
ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
ေဒသခံတဦးက “ည ၇ နာရီ၀န္းက်င္ေလာက္ ကြတ္ခိုင္ကို ၀င္တယ္။ ၀င္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ
ကြတ္ခိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းကေန ဆက္မသြားဖို႔ ဟန္႔တားတယ္။
နယ္မေက်ာ္ခိုင္းတာဗ်။ အတင္းအဓမၼႀကီးေတာ့ မဟုတ္ဘူး။
မသြားဖို႔ေတာင္းဆိုတာဗ်” လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
ယာဥ္တန္းဟာ လားရႈိးကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းေက်ာင္းကို ညသန္းေခါင္မွာ
ေရာက္ရွိ၀တ္ျပဳဆု ေတာင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ လားရႈိးၿမိဳ႕ခံ သတင္းေထာက္တဦးက ညက
၀တ္ျပဳပြဲမွာ ကခ်င္လူထု ၁၅၀၀ ေက်ာ္ တက္ေရာက္ ၀တ္ျပဳဆုေတာင္းတာ
ျမင္ေတြ႔တယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
“ညသန္းေခါင္ခ်ိန္မွာ လူမ်ားသြားတာက ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး ဘယ္လို ျဖစ္သြားလဲဆိုေတာ့
လားရႈိးၿမိဳ႕ေပၚေက်းရြာေတြက ကခ်င္လူထုအျပင္ သိႏီၷက ကခ်င္ေတြပါ
သုံးဘီးေတြနဲ႔လာၾကတာ။ ေနာက္တခုက ဒီမွာ အတင္းအဓမၼျပဳက်င့္သတ္ျဖတ္တဲ့
လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈအျဖစ္ဆိုးႀကီးကုိ လားရႈိးၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာလည္း
ကခ်င္ျပည္သူလူထုက ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ရႈတ္ခ်ကန္႔ကြက္ပါတယ္ဆုိတဲ့
သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ေတြ ကပ္တယ္ေလ။ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း ၀တ္ျပဳဆုေတာင္းမႈေတြ၊
ဘာသာေရးသီးခ်င္းေတြဆိုၿပီး ၁ နာရီေလာက္က်ေတာ့ မႏၱေလးကို တန္းထြက္တယ္။
ကားအစီးေရ ၈၀ ေလာက္ရွိမယ္။”
မႏၱေလးကို မနက္ ၉ နာရီခန္႔ေလာက္ ေရာက္ရွိၿပီးေနာက္ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ကို
ဆက္လက္ထြက္ခြာသြားတယ္လို႔ ေဒသခံသတင္းေထာက္ေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။
ယာဥ္တန္းဟာ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ကို ည ရွစ္နာရီေလာက္မွာ ေရာက္ဖြယ္ရွိပါတယ္။
မနက္ျဖန္မနက္ ၉ နာရီမွာေတာ့ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားနဲ႔ ၁၀ မုိင္အကြာ ေဂ်ာ္ဘြမ္ရွိ
ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္သခ်ဳႋင္းမွာ သၿဂႋဳဟ္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီကေန႔မနက္ ျပန္ၾကားေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနသတင္းက
ဆရာမႏွစ္ဦးေသဆုံးမႈႏွင့္ပတ္သက္လို႔ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ရာမွာ အမႈဖြင့္
စစ္ေဆးေနသလို ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရကလည္း စုံစမ္း စစ္ေဆးသြားမယ္လို႔ ေဖာ္ျပပါတယ္။
အခင္းျဖစ္ေနရာမွာ ေသြးစြန္းေနတဲ့ စတီးဓားတေခ်ာင္းႏွင့္ ထင္းေခ်ာင္း
တေခ်ာင္း ေတြ႔ရွိရၿပီး ေသဆုံးသူေတြဟာ ထိုးသြင္းဒဏ္ရာ၊ ျပတ္ရွဒဏ္ရာႏွင့္
ဦးေခါင္းေပါက္ၿပဲ ဒဏ္ရာေတြနဲ႔ ေသဆုံးေနၾကတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ မ်က္ျမင္ေတြ
ေျပာဆိုခ်က္အရ အဓမၼျပဳက်င့္ခံရမႈ လကၡဏာေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ေတာ့
ေဖာ္ျပျခင္းမရွိပါဘူး။
ကခ်င္လူမႈကြန္ရက္စာမ်က္ႏွာေတြနဲ႔ မ်က္ျမင္ေတြက
အဓမၼျပဳက်င့္သတ္ျဖတ္ခံရတယ္လို႔ ေရးေနၾကၿပီး အခင္းျဖစ္ရာေနရာနဲ႔
မလွမ္းမကမ္းမွာ အေျခစိုက္ေနတဲ့ ခမရ ၅၀၃ က တပ္မေတာ္သားေတြကို
သံသယျဖစ္စရာအျဖစ္ စြပ္စြဲေနၾကပါတယ္။
မေန႔ကေတာ့ အမွတ္ ၅၀၃ တပ္က သူ႔ရဲေဘာ္ေတြကို တန္းစီၿပီး ဆံပင္ကို
စစ္ေဆးခဲ့တယ္လို႔ အဆိုပါရြာကို ေရာက္ရွိတဲ့ မူဆယ္
ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္အဖြဲ႔က ကိုေဇာ္ရာက ေျပာပါတယ္။
ဓာတ္ပုံ (Kbc-facebook)
ဓာတ္ပုံ (Kbc-facebook)
“မေန႔က က်ေနာ္ ေရာက္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာစစ္တပ္က ၅၀၃ က ဗ်ဴဟာမွဴးထြန္းႏိုင္ဦး၊
တပ္ရင္းမွဴးက ေအာင္ၿဖဳိးျမင့္ေပါ့။ သူတို႔တပ္စြဲထားတဲ့ေနရာမွာ သူတို႔
တပ္သားေတြအားလုံးကို ေခၚတယ္။ ဒီဆံပင္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ စစ္ေဆးတာေပါ့။
ဒီမွာၾကည့္ေပါ့။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ တပ္သားေတြထဲမွာၾကည့္။ ဒါမ်ဳိးဆံပင္ ဘယ္သူမွ
မရွိဘူး။ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ရြာသူ ရြာသားေတြအားလုံးကိုလည္း ေခၚမယ္။ ဘယ္သူ႔ဆီမွာ
ဒီဆံပင္ ရွိမလဲဆုိတာကို မေန႔ကပဲ လုပ္တာ။”
အခင္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားရွိခိုးေက်ာင္း၀င္းဟာ
ကားလမ္းေအာက္ပိုင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး အမွတ္ ၅၀၃ တပ္ အေျခခ်တဲ့ေနရာက
ကားလမ္းအထက္ပိုင္းမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကားလမ္းေအာက္ပိုင္းဟာ သူတို႔အတြက္
ကန္႔သတ္နယ္ေျမျဖစ္လို႔ မသြားဘူးလို႔ ဗ်ဴးဟာမွဴးက ေျပာပါတယ္။
အဲဒီကန္႔သတ္နယ္ေျမမွာ ကိုးကန္႔လက္နက္ကိုင္၊ တအာင္းလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတြ
ေရာက္ရွိက်င္လည္ေလ့ရွိေၾကာင္း ဗ်ဴဟာမွဴးက ေျပာဆိုခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမယ့္ ရြာသားေတြကေတာ့ ဘယ္တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမွ မလာေရာက္ဘဲ
တပ္မေတာ္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ေတြ သာ အေျခခ်ေနတာလို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
ေကာင္းခါးရြာမွာ အိမ္ေျခ ၂၅ အိမ္သာရွိၿပီး ကေလးအမ်ားစုအပါအ၀င္ လူေပါင္း
ေလး ဆယ္ခန္႔သာ ေနၾကေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ရွိတဲ့ လူငယ္ လူရြယ္ ေလးငါးဦးဟာလည္း
တရုတ္နယ္စပ္မွာ အလုပ္သြားေရာက္လုပ္ကိုင္ေနၾကသူေတြျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ရြာသားေတြက
ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
အမည္မေဖာ္လိုသူ ရြာသားတဦးအဆိုအရ ဒီဆရာမ ၂ ဦးဟာ အခင္းမျဖစ္ခင္
ညဦးပိုင္းက မုန္းေပၚနဲ႔ နမ့္ေတာင္း အၾကား လမ္းမေပၚက
ကိုက္သုံးဆယ္ခန္႔အကြာ ေနအိမ္မွာ ေမြးေန႔ဆုေတာင္းတခုကိုသြားခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း၊
ည ၁၀ နာရီခြဲသာသာမွာ အိမ္ျပန္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း၊ ၁၁ နာရီခြဲေလာက္မွာ
သူတို႔ေနအိမ္ဘက္က ဆူညံလို႔ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း သုံးဦးက သြားၾကည့္ၾကတဲ့အခါ
တံခါးပိတ္ထားတာနဲ႔ၾကဳံလို႔ အိပ္ၿပီထင္ၿပီးျပန္လွည့္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း
ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ အစိုးရတပ္နဲ႔
တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔ေတြ တိုက္ပဲြ ျဖစ္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ ရြာသားေတြက
ညန္းေခါင္ေက်ာ္ရင္ အျပင္ကို မထြက္ရဲၾကဘူးလို႔ သူက ေျပာ ပါတယ္။
ဒီေသဆုံုးမႈကို ရဲက လူေသမႈ ပုဒ္မ ၃၀၂ နဲ႔ ဖြင့္လွစ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၿပီး
ကာယကံရွင္ေတြ ဘက္ကေတာ့ တစုံတရာ တိုင္ၾကားျခင္းမရွိဘဲ
အမႈမွန္ေဖာ္ထုတ္ေပးဖို႔သာ ေတာင္းဆိုထား ပါတယ္။
ဒီအမႈကုိ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔မွဴး၊ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး၊
ျပည္သူ႔စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦးနဲ႔ ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္အဖြဲ႔ မူဆယ္က
အတြင္းေရးမွဴးတို႔နဲ႔ ေလးဦး စုံစမ္းေရးအဖြဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္း
ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၾကပါတယ္။
--
Regards,
Khon Ja
09425288899
From: Khon Ja <khonj...@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-01-22 6:10 GMT-06:00
Subject: Update: 22nd January 2015, 6:30 PM
To: khonja2014 <khonj...@gmail.com>
Hkungga ai Myit Rum ni,
Myu shayi lahkawng hte seng na, Online Shiga kaw lawm ai ni hpe
mahkawng bang dat ya nngai.
Attachment langai gaw, NLD a Hpakant majan hte seng nna, statement rai malu ai.
Hpawt de Makoi Mayang kaw, Yangon kaw nna, Women Group a gawng malai
hku nna, Susanna Hla Hla Soe hte Ningli Hkawn du na re. 8888 Peace and
Open Society kaw na Ko Mya Aye, Ko Pyone Cho, Nilar Thein hte kaga
marai 3 lung na re. Bai, Myen Mung a Woman Ambassador hku nna Rebecca
Win mung lung wa nna, shaga na re.
Mai byin yang gaw, Hpakant de Media n kau hpe woi lung lu na matu,
garum ya marit. Lam shabrai mung lajang ya ra na nhten. Myen ni gaw
Mya Waddy hpe bang da ngut chyalu rai sai.
Yawng myit ngwi simsa lu u ga. KJ
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Burmese-army-rapes,-tortures-and-kills-two-Christian-Kachin-teachers-33249.html
01/21/2015
MYANMAR
Burmese army rapes, tortures and kills two Christian Kachin teachers
by Francis Khoo Thwe
The violence took place in the village of Shabuk-Kaunghka, Shan State.
In their 20s, the two teaching volunteers had come to the village to
provide education to locals. Revenge for clashes between regular army
units and rebels appears to be the reason for the incident. Burma's
Churches condemn the crime, noting the work Christian volunteers do in
the field of education.
Yangon (AsiaNews) - The Burmese army tortured, raped and killed two
teaching volunteers from the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC). The
violence took place on Monday in the village of Shabuk-Kaunghka,
Mungbaw Township, Shan State (northeastern Myanmar).
According to preliminary reports, troops from a Light Infantry
battalion were responsible for the violence, which occurred after
Burmese army units and local rebels recently clashed in Kachin State.
Soldiers tortured and gang-raped the two Christian teaching volunteers
before brutally killing them out of revenge.
The two victims, both in their 20s, hailed from the village of Wine
Maw, in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, an area where thousands of
people continue to flee violence, attacked because of their ethnicity.
Their bodies have been brought to Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin
State, where their funeral is set for tomorrow led by the KBC, which
had sent the two women to a remote area in Shan State, to teach
village children.
In many areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, there are few public
school teachers. Christian associations, including Catholic ones, tend
to fill the educational gap through relentless and tireless work of
volunteers.
The Kachin Baptist community slammed the murder of its teachers, who
sacrificed their lives to provide am education and a better life to
people often forgotten by the authorities and the central government.
In a final farewell to the two young victims, hundreds of people
gathered in prayer to honour their selfless work.
Meanwhile, local eyewitnesses said that the army has threatened
people, warning them not to mention what happened or else their homes
could be torched and destroyed.
On condition of anonymity, Kachin Christian sources told AsiaNews that
Christian Churches have been involved in education in Burma "since the
19th century".
Christian Volunteers "have never refused to go into remote areas,
among the most marginalised people," even when civil strife raged.
"Many sacrificed their lives for the mission," the sources said, "but
never before had two teachers been raped and killed."
"Today local Churches suffered a great offence," they added, "and have
to raise their voice and demand greater protection."
Myanmar is home to more than 135 ethnic groups, who have always had to
struggle to find a peaceful modus vivendi, especially with the central
government, which is dominated by majority ethnic Burmese.
In the past, the country's military junta used an iron fist against
the Shan and Kachin people, in their respective states, which are
located on Myanmar's northern border with China.
The latest round of fighting broke out in June 2011 after 17 years of
relative calm with dozens of civilians casualties and at least 200,000
people forcibly displaced.
Last August, local bishops made an appeal for peace, calling for a
lasting solution to the conflict.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-calls-myanmar-probe-killings-kachin-women-28393788
US Calls for Myanmar to Probe Killings of 2 Kachin Women
WASHINGTON — Jan 21, 2015, 11:21 PM ET
Associated Press
The U.S. called on Myanmar to investigate the killings of two ethnic
Kachin teachers, amid allegations by activists the women were raped
and murdered by government forces.
The bloodied corpses were discovered earlier this week in a village in
northern Shan state.
A medical report indicated the volunteer teachers for the Kachin
Baptist Convention died from penetration wounds to their liver, lungs
and head, Zau Ra, secretary of the organization, told The Associated
Press by telephone Thursday.
Their private parts also had been violated, he said, adding he was
"shocked and saddened' by the news.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, was under dictatorship until 2011, and
President Thein Sein's nominally civilian government has spearheaded
the country's bumpy transition toward democratic rule. With many of
his early reforms now stalled or sliding backward, he is trying to end
decades-long civil wars in resource-rich border regions before his
term ends later this year.
The military — which in recent days has launched fresh attacks in
Kachin state, trapping more than 1,000 civilians in several villages —
has long been accused of serious abuses in fighting against ethnic
rebels.
Activists say they two teachers were raped and killed by government forces.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Wednesday called on Myanmar
authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. She said Myanmar has
told the U.S. it is looking into the case, and the facts of what
happened are still being determined.
The deaths come a week after the U.S. held a human rights dialogue
with civilian and military officials in Myanmar.
"This is the first time that our religious staff have been attacked,"
Zau Ra of the Kachin Baptist Convention told The AP from the town of
Muse, about 10 miles (16 km) from where the bodies were found Monday.
http://karennews.org/2015/01/burma-campaign-uk-kachin-teachers-raped-killed-burma-army.html/
Burma Campaign – UK: Kachin Teachers Raped And Killed By Burma Army
January 21, 2015 •
Author: Karen News
• Posted in Articles
Tags: Burma army, human rights, Kachin
Two Kachin Volunteer Teachers
The London based human rights advocacy organization, Burma Campaign
UK, confirmed reports that two ethnic Kachin teachers were raped by
Burma Army soldiers 19th and 20thJanuary.
In a media statement Burma Campaign UK called on the British
government to use its Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and send a
team to Burma “to investigate the case.”
Burma Campaign UK urged the British government to stop its current
training program with the Burma Army.
The Burma Campaign UK alleged that, “two female Kachin teachers, both
20-years-old and from the Kachin Baptist Convention, were brutally
raped and killed by the Burmese Army overnight on 19th/20th January.
The attack took place in Kaunghka village, Northern Shan State.”
Since 2011 the region, where the murders and rape took place, has been
one of, when the Burma Army broke a 17 ceasefire with the Kachin
Independence Army.
Burma Campaign UK claimed that, “Burma Army soldiers committing rape
and sexual violence are able to do so with impunity.”
The Burma Campaign UK cite the Women’s League of Burma recent report –
If they had hope, they would speak – that documented 118 cases of
sexual violence against ethnic women by the Burmese military since
2010.
Other groups and organisations including the United Nations have urged
the Burma government to investigate cases of sexual violence.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, requested the Burmese government
to fully investigate such cases.
Burma Campaign UK said that despite the calls for investigations, “the
government has failed to do so. The Burmese government has also failed
to implement any of the provisions of the Declaration to End Sexual
Violence in Conflict, which it signed last year.”
Burma Campaign UK in its statement said that “as a result of the
ongoing impunity, women’s organisations in Burma, Burma Campaign UK
and other NGOs are calling for an independent international
investigation into these incidents of sexual violence, many of which
meet the legal definition of war crimes. The British government has
refused to support such an investigation, in contravention of its own
stated goal of ending impunity for sexual violence in conflict.”
The Burma Campaign UK said that the British government could do more
to pressure Burma’s government and pointed to its ongoing training
program with the Burma Army.
The London based advocacy group said that the UK government had
started its contentious training program “without placing any
requirements that the Burmese Army agree to reforms and end impunity
for sexual violence and rape committed by its soldiers. The British
government has no system in place to ensure the soldiers trained using
British taxpayers money have not been involved in rape or other war
crimes.”
The Burma Campaign UK said pressure from within the British Parliament
forced the British government to include “Burma in its Preventing
Sexual Violence Initiative, but it has carefully targeted projects in
Burma that avoid directly addressing the use of rape and sexual
violence by the Burmese Army, apparently for fear of offending the
Burmese government, from which it is trying to secure trade and
investment agreements for British companies.”
Zoya Phan, the campaigns manager at Burma Campaign UK said that the,
“brutal rape and killing of these two Kachin teachers is just one of
the many examples of how the Burmese Army is still using rape as a
weapon of war.”
Ms Phan claimed that the “international community has mostly been
silent about the ongoing use of rape by the Burmese Army, and this has
encouraged the Burmese Army to think they can keep getting away with
these crimes.”
Ms Phan urged the UK government and the international community “to
support investigation into rape and sexual violence in Burma. The
British government, which claims ending sexual violence in conflict is
a top foreign policy goal, must stop avoiding tackling this issue in
Burma, and insist on sending a team of experts to investigate this
case.”
Ms Phan said the British government had to more to pressure the Burma
government to stop sexual violence by its military.
“It is simply not good enough for the Foreign Office to keep insisting
the Burmese government carry out its own investigation when it knows
that a genuine investigation is extremely unlikely. In the UK we don’t
ask criminals to investigate their own crimes.”
http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/78164
ကခ်င္ဆရာမ ၂ ဦးအေလာင္း ျမစ္ႀကီးနားကုိ သယ္ေဆာင္
By ေအးႏိုင္
22 January 2015
ရွမ္းျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း မူဆယ္ခရိုင္ ၾကဴကုတ္ (ပန္ဆိုင္း)ၿမိဳ႕နယ္
ေကာင္းခါးရြာမွာ သတ္ခံရသူ ဆရာမႏွစ္ဦးရဲ႔ ရုပ္အေလာင္းကို
ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္က ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ကို
ေမာ္ေတာ္ယာဥ္တန္းနဲ႔ သယ္ေဆာင္ပါတယ္။
မူဆယ္ေဆးရုံကေန မေန႔ညေန ၄ နာရီက စတင္သယ္ယူလာၿပီး ကြတ္ခိုင္ၿမိဳ႕အ၀င္မွာ
ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔ မသယ္ဖို႔ တားျမစ္ေပမယ့္ ၀တ္ျပဳၿပီး ဆက္လက္သယ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့တဲ့
လမ္းတေလွ်ာက္မွာ ကခ်င္ေဒသခံေတြက ေစာင့္ႀကိဳၿပီး အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ ရပ္တန္႔ေရး
ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
ေဒသခံတဦးက “ည ၇ နာရီ၀န္းက်င္ေလာက္ ကြတ္ခိုင္ကို ၀င္တယ္။ ၀င္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ
ကြတ္ခိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းကေန ဆက္မသြားဖို႔ ဟန္႔တားတယ္။
နယ္မေက်ာ္ခိုင္းတာဗ်။ အတင္းအဓမၼႀကီးေတာ့ မဟုတ္ဘူး။
မသြားဖို႔ေတာင္းဆိုတာဗ်” လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
ယာဥ္တန္းဟာ လားရႈိးကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းေက်ာင္းကို ညသန္းေခါင္မွာ
ေရာက္ရွိ၀တ္ျပဳဆု ေတာင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ လားရႈိးၿမိဳ႕ခံ သတင္းေထာက္တဦးက ညက
၀တ္ျပဳပြဲမွာ ကခ်င္လူထု ၁၅၀၀ ေက်ာ္ တက္ေရာက္ ၀တ္ျပဳဆုေတာင္းတာ
ျမင္ေတြ႔တယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
“ညသန္းေခါင္ခ်ိန္မွာ လူမ်ားသြားတာက ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး ဘယ္လို ျဖစ္သြားလဲဆိုေတာ့
လားရႈိးၿမိဳ႕ေပၚေက်းရြာေတြက ကခ်င္လူထုအျပင္ သိႏီၷက ကခ်င္ေတြပါ
သုံးဘီးေတြနဲ႔လာၾကတာ။ ေနာက္တခုက ဒီမွာ အတင္းအဓမၼျပဳက်င့္သတ္ျဖတ္တဲ့
လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈအျဖစ္ဆိုးႀကီးကုိ လားရႈိးၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာလည္း
ကခ်င္ျပည္သူလူထုက ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ရႈတ္ခ်ကန္႔ကြက္ပါတယ္ဆုိတဲ့
သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ေတြ ကပ္တယ္ေလ။ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း ၀တ္ျပဳဆုေတာင္းမႈေတြ၊
ဘာသာေရးသီးခ်င္းေတြဆိုၿပီး ၁ နာရီေလာက္က်ေတာ့ မႏၱေလးကို တန္းထြက္တယ္။
ကားအစီးေရ ၈၀ ေလာက္ရွိမယ္။”
မႏၱေလးကို မနက္ ၉ နာရီခန္႔ေလာက္ ေရာက္ရွိၿပီးေနာက္ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ကို
ဆက္လက္ထြက္ခြာသြားတယ္လို႔ ေဒသခံသတင္းေထာက္ေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။
ယာဥ္တန္းဟာ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ကို ည ရွစ္နာရီေလာက္မွာ ေရာက္ဖြယ္ရွိပါတယ္။
မနက္ျဖန္မနက္ ၉ နာရီမွာေတာ့ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားနဲ႔ ၁၀ မုိင္အကြာ ေဂ်ာ္ဘြမ္ရွိ
ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္သခ်ဳႋင္းမွာ သၿဂႋဳဟ္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီကေန႔မနက္ ျပန္ၾကားေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနသတင္းက
ဆရာမႏွစ္ဦးေသဆုံးမႈႏွင့္ပတ္သက္လို႔ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ရာမွာ အမႈဖြင့္
စစ္ေဆးေနသလို ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရကလည္း စုံစမ္း စစ္ေဆးသြားမယ္လို႔ ေဖာ္ျပပါတယ္။
အခင္းျဖစ္ေနရာမွာ ေသြးစြန္းေနတဲ့ စတီးဓားတေခ်ာင္းႏွင့္ ထင္းေခ်ာင္း
တေခ်ာင္း ေတြ႔ရွိရၿပီး ေသဆုံးသူေတြဟာ ထိုးသြင္းဒဏ္ရာ၊ ျပတ္ရွဒဏ္ရာႏွင့္
ဦးေခါင္းေပါက္ၿပဲ ဒဏ္ရာေတြနဲ႔ ေသဆုံးေနၾကတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ မ်က္ျမင္ေတြ
ေျပာဆိုခ်က္အရ အဓမၼျပဳက်င့္ခံရမႈ လကၡဏာေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ေတာ့
ေဖာ္ျပျခင္းမရွိပါဘူး။
ကခ်င္လူမႈကြန္ရက္စာမ်က္ႏွာေတြနဲ႔ မ်က္ျမင္ေတြက
အဓမၼျပဳက်င့္သတ္ျဖတ္ခံရတယ္လို႔ ေရးေနၾကၿပီး အခင္းျဖစ္ရာေနရာနဲ႔
မလွမ္းမကမ္းမွာ အေျခစိုက္ေနတဲ့ ခမရ ၅၀၃ က တပ္မေတာ္သားေတြကို
သံသယျဖစ္စရာအျဖစ္ စြပ္စြဲေနၾကပါတယ္။
မေန႔ကေတာ့ အမွတ္ ၅၀၃ တပ္က သူ႔ရဲေဘာ္ေတြကို တန္းစီၿပီး ဆံပင္ကို
စစ္ေဆးခဲ့တယ္လို႔ အဆိုပါရြာကို ေရာက္ရွိတဲ့ မူဆယ္
ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္အဖြဲ႔က ကိုေဇာ္ရာက ေျပာပါတယ္။
ဓာတ္ပုံ (Kbc-facebook)
ဓာတ္ပုံ (Kbc-facebook)
“မေန႔က က်ေနာ္ ေရာက္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာစစ္တပ္က ၅၀၃ က ဗ်ဴဟာမွဴးထြန္းႏိုင္ဦး၊
တပ္ရင္းမွဴးက ေအာင္ၿဖဳိးျမင့္ေပါ့။ သူတို႔တပ္စြဲထားတဲ့ေနရာမွာ သူတို႔
တပ္သားေတြအားလုံးကို ေခၚတယ္။ ဒီဆံပင္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ စစ္ေဆးတာေပါ့။
ဒီမွာၾကည့္ေပါ့။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ တပ္သားေတြထဲမွာၾကည့္။ ဒါမ်ဳိးဆံပင္ ဘယ္သူမွ
မရွိဘူး။ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ရြာသူ ရြာသားေတြအားလုံးကိုလည္း ေခၚမယ္။ ဘယ္သူ႔ဆီမွာ
ဒီဆံပင္ ရွိမလဲဆုိတာကို မေန႔ကပဲ လုပ္တာ။”
အခင္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားရွိခိုးေက်ာင္း၀င္းဟာ
ကားလမ္းေအာက္ပိုင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး အမွတ္ ၅၀၃ တပ္ အေျခခ်တဲ့ေနရာက
ကားလမ္းအထက္ပိုင္းမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကားလမ္းေအာက္ပိုင္းဟာ သူတို႔အတြက္
ကန္႔သတ္နယ္ေျမျဖစ္လို႔ မသြားဘူးလို႔ ဗ်ဴးဟာမွဴးက ေျပာပါတယ္။
အဲဒီကန္႔သတ္နယ္ေျမမွာ ကိုးကန္႔လက္နက္ကိုင္၊ တအာင္းလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတြ
ေရာက္ရွိက်င္လည္ေလ့ရွိေၾကာင္း ဗ်ဴဟာမွဴးက ေျပာဆိုခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမယ့္ ရြာသားေတြကေတာ့ ဘယ္တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမွ မလာေရာက္ဘဲ
တပ္မေတာ္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ေတြ သာ အေျခခ်ေနတာလို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
ေကာင္းခါးရြာမွာ အိမ္ေျခ ၂၅ အိမ္သာရွိၿပီး ကေလးအမ်ားစုအပါအ၀င္ လူေပါင္း
ေလး ဆယ္ခန္႔သာ ေနၾကေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ရွိတဲ့ လူငယ္ လူရြယ္ ေလးငါးဦးဟာလည္း
တရုတ္နယ္စပ္မွာ အလုပ္သြားေရာက္လုပ္ကိုင္ေနၾကသူေတြျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ရြာသားေတြက
ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
အမည္မေဖာ္လိုသူ ရြာသားတဦးအဆိုအရ ဒီဆရာမ ၂ ဦးဟာ အခင္းမျဖစ္ခင္
ညဦးပိုင္းက မုန္းေပၚနဲ႔ နမ့္ေတာင္း အၾကား လမ္းမေပၚက
ကိုက္သုံးဆယ္ခန္႔အကြာ ေနအိမ္မွာ ေမြးေန႔ဆုေတာင္းတခုကိုသြားခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း၊
ည ၁၀ နာရီခြဲသာသာမွာ အိမ္ျပန္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း၊ ၁၁ နာရီခြဲေလာက္မွာ
သူတို႔ေနအိမ္ဘက္က ဆူညံလို႔ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း သုံးဦးက သြားၾကည့္ၾကတဲ့အခါ
တံခါးပိတ္ထားတာနဲ႔ၾကဳံလို႔ အိပ္ၿပီထင္ၿပီးျပန္လွည့္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း
ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ အစိုးရတပ္နဲ႔
တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔ေတြ တိုက္ပဲြ ျဖစ္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ ရြာသားေတြက
ညန္းေခါင္ေက်ာ္ရင္ အျပင္ကို မထြက္ရဲၾကဘူးလို႔ သူက ေျပာ ပါတယ္။
ဒီေသဆုံုးမႈကို ရဲက လူေသမႈ ပုဒ္မ ၃၀၂ နဲ႔ ဖြင့္လွစ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၿပီး
ကာယကံရွင္ေတြ ဘက္ကေတာ့ တစုံတရာ တိုင္ၾကားျခင္းမရွိဘဲ
အမႈမွန္ေဖာ္ထုတ္ေပးဖို႔သာ ေတာင္းဆိုထား ပါတယ္။
ဒီအမႈကုိ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔မွဴး၊ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး၊
ျပည္သူ႔စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦးနဲ႔ ကခ်င္ႏွစ္ျခင္းခရစ္ယာန္အဖြဲ႔ မူဆယ္က
အတြင္းေရးမွဴးတို႔နဲ႔ ေလးဦး စုံစမ္းေရးအဖြဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္း
ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၾကပါတယ္။
--
Regards,
Khon Ja
09425288899
Happy new year 2014
F-R-I-E-N-D,
F- Few,
R- Relations,
I - In,
E - Earth,
N - Never,
D- Die,
''''God Is Love'''''
F-R-I-E-N-D,
F- Few,
R- Relations,
I - In,
E - Earth,
N - Never,
D- Die,
''''God Is Love'''''
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages