Published on 03/2/2006

The successive military regimes of Burma without the consent of the people of any of the ethnic states: Shan, Kachin, Karenni, Karen, Chin, Mon, Arakan and Burman, appointed themselves the governing body of Burma. Although illegitimate the United Nation has given the successive military regimes a chance to represent Burma as a whole. But as a government or representative of the peoples of Burma they have not honoured the pledge of the declarations of human rights and have in fact committed acts totally contradictory to those laid down in the UN Charter.

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THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON 10- June-1948

“Members state have pledged themselves to achieve in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for the observance of human rights and fundamental freedom”

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in the spirit of brotherhood”

“All human beings have the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of life.”

“No one should be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman degrading treatment or punishment”

“Everyone has the right to nationality”.

“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion- peoples have the right of self –determination. By virtue of that right they shall freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”

“No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour”

“No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention”

“In those states in which several ethnic, religious or linguistic nationals exist, persons belonging to such nationals shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of their group, to enjoy their culture, to profess and practise their own religion or to use their own language.

The above are a few of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 and the International Covenant on Social and Cultural Rights, in1966, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights signed by 36 member states in 1966

The Shan State which was one of the Federal States of the Ex-Union of Burma was once a quiet and peaceful country is now a land of fear and terror under the Burmese military regimes.

Like the Karens and the Karenni the Shans have been the victims of human rights violations perpetrated by the military regimes for nearly half a century. In 1962, when the military under Ne Win staged a coup and forcibly occupied the Shan State, they committed the first human rights violations against the Shan people: they took away their freedom and the right of self-determination.

They inactivated the Shan Leaders by putting them in prison without crime or reason and killed some of them because they refused to sign certain documents. The army marched to the House of the ex-President to capture and put him in prison, and then shot dead one of his young sons. The military coup was followed by the obsession of Ne Win to rule over and Burmanise the non-Burman nationals, by controlling them with arms and force. They adopted the policy of ethnic cleansing by denying the Shans to study their own language and by destroying their cultural heritage. In1999, when interviewed by a member of the Burma Relief Centre, a Shan monk spoke out about the effects of Burmese military rule on Buddhism in the Shan State. He said, as a Shan monk he was not allowed to teach Buddhism and the teaching of Shan language was prohibited in the whole of the Shan State. The regime was stopping the Shans from practising their culture. Any architectural and cultural heritage that symbolised the existence of Shans and their culture were destroyed and were replaced with those of Burmese. They also adopted a reward system to assimilate the Shans with the Burmese nationals. (a document available as evidence- translated from Burmese into English by request of Amnesty internationals)

As reported by Amnesty International Ne Win made Burma the institution of torture. Young men of non-Burman ethnic nationals rose and resisted the military rule: they were fighting for their survival and freedom. From then on the Military junta not only tried to oppress the resistant movements but subjected the civilians to terror, and human rights violation: forced-labour, gang-rape of women and girls, extrajudicial killing, massacre and genocide. Being a Shan has become one of the reasons to be afraid of Burmese military junta. Almost every time they have a clash with Shan soldiers the Burmese junta take it out on the innocent civilians, whether or not they are involved in the conflict. The Shans run a greater risk of being subjected to a wide variety of human rights violations simply because they belong to a particular group.

Dispossession of Homes and Farms, and forced Relocations
The Shan farmers met with the worst devastation of their lives when the Burmese army began a massive relocation program. From 1996-1998 over 300,000 people of 1,500 households from 11 townships (counties) were forced at gun point into strategic relocation sites. No assistance of any type was provided and the relocated villagers were forbidden to return to their villages. Vast areas of ownership lands have been turned into depopulated zones; and are now fields full of poppy plants, which are used to produce opium and amphetamine to finance Burma’s failing economy. The villagers in the relocation sites were used intensively as forced labourers. In the relocation site living conditions were poor and unsanitary. Many also died of mal nourishment. Detailed account can be obtained in the booklets produced by Shan Human Rights Foundation titled “Uprooting the Shan” in1996, and “Dispossessed”—“Forced Relocation and Extrajudicial Killings in the Shan State” in 1998.

Torture, Arbitrary Killing, Extrajudicial Killing and Massacre
In 1997 and 1998, the relocation program was intensified and there were a sharp increase in the number of extrajudicial killings by the junta and repeated massacres of villagers caught outside the relocation sites. This was deliberate action taken to deny the villagers the means of livelihood; it is an act of genocide.

Below are some of the gruesome atrocities committed by the junta against the Shan civilians:
In March, 1997 the SLORC raped a young girl of 12 on her way to feed her parents herds of cattle. The parents requested permission to bury the body of their daughter, but the SLORC’s reply was “She must be kept like this, as an example for the people of the Shan State to observe. If you bury her you will die with her.”

In 1997 alone, 664 people were recorded as having being killed in or near the relocation areas; many also died of malnutrition and starvation.

Throughout 1997, the SLORC troops killed villagers for just foraging for foods near the relocation sites and for trying to fish in the stream.

Villagers were also massacred in large groups, including those who were given permission to return to their old villages to collect rice. But they had been deceived: this is the story of a young woman who had been spared because she had a baby: “We were made to stay in a house. The SLORC troops came to the door and called out people one by one. They called away 16 people first, 12 men and 4 women. Then they came to call a group of 10. Then I heard a burst of machine guns fire. They were killing the 16 people. Then after just a bit I heard a gun fire nearby. In the group of 10 my husband died. I was shaking, shaking! I was sitting and shaking all the time. My blood was hot all over my body. I could not think properly, I would have ran away but they were standing there guarding me. I think I would be dead if I hadn’t had my son with me. One of the women pleaded, and she squeezed out milk from her breast to show that she had a baby, but the SLORC commander said her baby was probably dead, and they killed her”. (Interviewed by SHRF on 30-8-07)

On the 16-6-1997 Burmese troops massacred Shan villagers at a village in Kun Hing Township, 29 Shan civilians were tied up and machine gunned. Another 27 Shan were similarly executed in another village.

On July 11th of the same year the SLORC beheaded bodies of Shan villagers beside the road so as to warn other villagers not to stray from the relocation sites. The next day a further 12 headless corpses were placed by the roadside.

As reported by Amnesty Internationals, in 1998, “Atrocities worsen in the Shan State”

On February 12, 2000 20 Shan villagers who were conducting religious rite at the altar at Loi Maak Hin Tang, were massacred by a column of Burmese troops from infantry 246, Kun Hing township and 5 others were also killed on the same day by the same troop. The names of these people are available in the monthly report of SHRF)

On May 23rd. 2000 Burmese troops from infantry Battalion 246 led by Captain Htun Aung, seized and shot dead 64 internally displaced Shan people, including children,7 and 4 years of age. This massacre occurred at a place near Sai Mong Village, Kun Hing, Shan State.

In late May 2000, 6 displaced Shan women were raped and killed by Burmese troops from infantry Battalion 246 led by Captain Aung Htay. The women were first robbed , then Captain Aung Htay encouraged his soldiers to rape the women and then he did the same. About 50 or 60 soldiers took it by turn to rape the 6 women, and afterwards killed them at the command of the Captain.

During October 2000, 13 displaced farmers were massacred in Murng Kerng. They were surrounded and gunned down without any warning by 80- 90 troops of No. 5 of LIB514, under the command of Captain Pan Aung.

During May 2001, 5 internally displaced Shan farmers who were building a dam on the Nam Kham stream to divert water to the field to grow rice were forced to stand in a row and shot dead by Burmese troops from Infantry Battalion 246 in Ka Li village tract., Kun Hing township. They were made to grow opium for the junta. The troops had accused farmers of being rebels and of providing rice to Shan soldiers.

In late May 2001, 14 Shan villagers travelling to Thailand on foot unintentionally slipped into the vicinity of an amphetamines factory 18 miles north of Thai border. They were intercepted and killed at Hauy Pa Hki, in Mong Tong Township by Burmese soldiers belonging to the infantry Battalion 225 led by Captain Maung Thaung. Before their death these villagers were brutally beaten by the Burmese army because they were too near the amphetamine factory set up by Wei Shaukang and guarded by the Burmese military. Wei is the warlord and leader of the Wa army wanted by by the Thai and American law enforcement agencies. The Wa army works in partnership with the junta.

Saai Khao Village, in Kun Hing was one of the sites in which gruesome massacre of innocent Shan citizens had taken place by the SLORC. About 60 displaced farmers were killed at Saai Khaao Village and Taad Pha Ho waterfall: 31 at the former and 28 at the latter, men and women about 14-50 years of age.

8 displaced farmers, including 5 men and 3 women were beaten and short dead – the women were raped before they were killed. The soldiers were from LIB502 led by Capt. Soe Naing, at Tawng Kwaai Tai Village,, in Mong Pan Township.

July 2002- 13 villagers were accused of providing food and information to the Shan soldiers. They were arrested and 12 of them were killed.

15 refugees returning from Thailand disappeared.

26th February- 7 displaced farmers were shot dead in farm hut by a patrol of SPDC troops.

14 villagers shot dead for failing to pay opium tax in Murng Sart. The villagers were made to grow opium but due to the weather they had failed to produce the required amount of opium.

September 24th.2002- 10 displaced elderly villagers were shot dead while observing Buddhist Sabbath day and 25 disappeared after being arrested in Nam Zarng.

In February, 2003 7 displaced farmers were shot dead in Laika and as usual tried to put the blame on the Shan soldiers.

In April 2003 newly wed displaced villagers were shot dead in Laika.

In October 2003 3 displaced villagers were shot dead and dumped into the water in Kun Hing

In August 2004 a man was beaten and pushed into a flooded stream.

Two displaced women gang-raped and killed.

In October 2004 a displaced woman was raped and killed in Larng Khur.

A young girl was raped and her father was killed for complaining.

In May 2005 a farmer beaten to death in Murng Ton.

A civilian guide tortured and stabbed to death.

In September 2005 19 Lahu militia men shot dead in a group in Murng Ton

An Exodus of Shan Refugees Fleeing to Thailand
From 1996 onwards as Amnesty International reported there was an exodus of Shan refugees fleeing to Thailand. Unlike the refugees of other ethnic groups the Shan have been denied refugee status by the Thai Government and therefore have no access to refugee camps, where they could get humanitarian aid and education for the children. To the Thai government the Shans are illegal immigrants. Some have been arrested and sent back to the Shan State where they could be killed. Yet the Shans continue to flow into Thailand. The Shans and Thai are culturally and linguistically related and as such the present Thai Government does not want to appear to be supporting the Shans; for economic and political reasons the Thai Government is afraid they might offend the SPDC.

The Shans are like herds of stampeded cattle, running for their lives; no refuge in Thailand or in their own country of birth. There are hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Shans with very or no help from International Communities. Even in their hiding places in the jungle the Shan IDP cannot find anywhere safe, they are being hunted like animals and if seen by the soldiers they are being shot at. In spite of the hardship in Thailand they still flee to the border and many not only have horrible stories to tell of recent human rights abuses but also of previous abuses they had to suffer during the years of their hiding.

Forced labour
Forced Labour, including mass forced labour of people in building military facilities and forced portering of women and children in Central Shan State have been rampant. In mid June 1991 SPDC troops from LIB541 forced 142 men,108 women and children 8 to 16 years of age to carry ammunition and rice and other food stuff for 16 days, during which all the women and 15 year old girls were raped before they were released.

A few days late, the same SPDC troops ordered the village Headman to provide 15 civilian porters .

People were forced to stand guard. Sometime in 2001 the Commander of Kun Hing based IB246 Lt. Colonel San Hlaing, issued an order forcing people to build 14 guard houses along the main road, which was to be completed within three days. Each guard house was ordered to be manned by four people, 24 hours a day.

Displaced people in relocation sites, in Kaeng Tawng and Kaeng Kham, in Mong Nai and Kun Hing township were ordered to grow opium. These relocated people were given pass and allowed to go back to their old farms. Opium seeds were also provided by the camp site Commander. Since then opium has been cultivated abundantly in Central Shan State. Several acres of land in several deserted villages near Kho Lam are now being used for opium cultivation. Certain villagers were given the duty to collect the taxes from the opium growers. If the grower was unable to pay the tax in ratio to the cultivated land then he or she would be fined or the land confiscated. Most of these had been rice farmers and because of their inexperience in opium cultivation they usually failed to produce a good yield of opium. Many forced opium growers were among those who fled to the Thailand border, some because they did not want to grow opium due to moral reasons while others had to flee because their crops failed and could not pay their tax to the SPDC.

Treating Shan people as Slave labourers by the SPDC
In early 2002, villagers from Saai Khaao village, in Kun Hing village who were forced to relocate to the outskirts of the town in 1997 -1998 were ordered by the Kun Hing based SPDC troops to return to their original village, Saai Khaao; 345 people went back thinking they were returning home. Here the Burmese military set up an outside camp and issued an order to unfortunate villagers to:

To grow teak trees along the main road from Kun Hing to Kaeng Tawng in Murng Nai Township.

To build fences arounfd the village about two elbow lengths in height.

Each household to grow 5 jackfruit and 20 mango trees.

Each house to dig a trench in front of the house 3 elbow lengths deep, 2 elbow length in width and 15 arm span in length.

Each household to take turn to cultivate the 5 acre mango plantation belonging to the military.

No villager was allowed to go beyond 3 miles from the village.

All villagers have to stay in their respective houses between 6pm -6am. Anyone found outside their own compound within that time would be shot on sight.

Each household to raise at least 2 pigs , of which one is for the military.

Each household to raise ten chickens of which 5 were for the military.

Anyone who refused to comply with this order would be fined 5,000 kyats and three years in prison.

Whenever required the SPDC just rounded up civilians to porter for them. On May 24th 2002 SPDC from LIB514 ordered 8 3 men to get on trucks and set off from Murng Kerng to areas near the Shan State and Thailand border . Out of 83 only 51 porters returned, some were wounded while 22 of them went missing.

When the ILO sent its inquiry teams to Shan State, there have been incidents of punitive actions by the Burmese army troops against the people who dared to complain about forced labour and other human rights violations committed by the SPDC soldiers. When Sir Ninian Stephen, Leader of ILO and his inquiry team visited Burma in September 2001 Lt. Colonel Khin Nyunt denied the killing of Shan villagers by Burmese soldiers for complaining about forced labour in Kaeng Tawng area of Murng Nai Town. But the governing body of the ILO in March 2002 accepted the credibility of the report made by SHRF.

Confiscation of Homes, Farm lands, Vegetable plots, Woods and Fish ponds
A lot of farm land had been confiscated since the Burmese military first came into the Shan State in 1962. The military presence in the Shan State has increase tremendously; they had expanded into every town and village and the more military expanded the more land belonging to the original citizens was being confiscated. In some cases the land after being confiscated was leased or sold back to the owner. In certain villages farmers lost all their farm lands which was the source of their livelihood. In January 2003 lots of homes and farmlands were seized by the regime for Wa settlers.

In September 2004 the Deputy Commander of IB49, Major Nyunt Hlaing confiscated rice fields belonging to a family, Lung Mo, his wife and three children. The rice in the fields was ready for harvesting so the family went to the military headquarters and pleaded not to take away their land at least until they had harvested the rice. Their plea to delay the confiscation was accepted but at a cost of 15,000 kyats. In July 2004 the whole village had to move because their land was confiscated.

In July 2004 the whole village of Murng Na had to move due to land confiscation by the Burmese junta, including 150 acres of rice fields, vegetable and fruit gardens. Nothing seemed to satisfy their greed; they would just take whatever they want by force. Well cared for evergreen woodlands, fish ponds and forests belonging to the Shan people have been confiscated and damaged.

Licence to Rape
“Licence to Rape” is a report on the Burmese Military regime’s use of sexual violence in the ongoing war in the Shan State compiled by Shan Human Rights Foundation and Shan Women Active Net Work. (2002) This report details 173 incidences of rape and other forms of sexual abuses , involving 625 girls and women, committed by the Burmese army troops in the Shan State between 1996 – 2001.

Even after the publication of the of Licence to Rape the SHRF is still receiving reports on cases of rape in the Shan State

At the beginning of 2003 a 13 year old girl was raped for 10 days; her father and husband were killed.

In June 2003, 5 daughters of a displaced farmer, whose ages were between 13-16 were detained and raped in Nam Zarng

2 women shot dead and 17 women were detained and raped in Mong Sart for three nights.

On the 24th April 2005 a girl aged 7 was raped by the Burmese soldiers – Ae Kya aged 7 and her sister Ae Pi, aged 12 were picking wild vegetables along a brook outside a village, Na Tong Mou where they lived when they saw two Burmese soldiers coming towards them. Ae Pi instructed her younger sister to run while she herself ran as fast as she could. Ae Kya couldn’t run very fast so the soldiers caught up with her. In the meantime Ae Pi had reached home and related the story to her parents. The parents and villagers went in search of the little girl and they found her unconscious and badly hurt. They carried her to the hospital in Kun Hing but her body was so badly damaged that the doctors couldn’t save her and she died. (How could anyone hurt a child of 7 in this manner?) The two soldiers were from IB246.

Besides arbitrary killing, torturing, forced labour, massacre and gang- rape of women and girls the Burmese military junta also steal, rob money, food and small luxury like radios and motorcycles from the Shan citizens who are already living below the poverty line and fighting for survival.

According to the UN Charter of 1948, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in the spirit of brotherhood “Are members of the Burmese military not been endowed with reason and conscience?

Victims of Shan Human Rights Violations interviewed by various people:
Referring to an article,” Baroness Cox was talking to Stuart Wavell”
“On many occasions I have crossed the border from Thailand to witness the conditions these internally displaced people are having to endure. The memory that epitomises the tragedy for me was hearing children describing how they had seen brothers and sisters ground to death in a log-weighted rice pounder”.

“The “crime” of the ethnic groups (Karen, Karenni, Shan, Mon, Chin, Kachin and Arakan) is their desire to preserve their own identity. The junta is intent on pursuing a policy of “Burmanisation” through systematic discrimination, including theft and exploitation of land. There is also religious persecution of Christians and Muslims”.

1 Member of Jubilee Campaign, Wilfred Wong interviewed Shan Victims of Human Rights. Wilfred Wong is a Jubilee Researcher and a British Parliament Officer. He visited one of many areas in the hills of Shan State in which about 700 internally displaced Shan had sought refuge from the onslaught by the Burmese military. He said, Wunna, a Shan village Headman, told Jubilee that they were often short of food and had to search in the jungle for vegetable, birds and even insects to eat. The Headman told him that in his former village he had seen some of his villagers beaten to death by Burmese troops. He had also seen his friend Loong Kaw Ling, who was forced to carry supplies for the Burmese army, beaten to death because he was too exhausted.

2. The Headman had buried 2 villagers who had been victims of rape and murder by Burmese soldiers. These two Shan girls from the village of Wan Mon, in Laikha township, had been tending their fields when they were raped and murdered by the soldiers. One of the victims had her genitals burned by the Burmese troops. The victims were only about 15-16 years of age.

3. Nang, a 14 year old girl described to Jubilee Campaign how her old grandfather and infant brother were burned to death by Burmese troops when they set fire to their house in 1999. The soldiers gave no warning , they simply set the houses in her village alight. Nang said that some other babies in other houses were also burnt to death by Burmese soldiers. Nang and her mother barely escaped, with Nang suffering some minor burn injuries and her mother experiencing serious burns in her legs. Nang’s 5 year old brother was badly burned on the neck, hands and chest and had to receive skin grafts.

4. 11 year old Sai Mong, a Shan orphan, lost his father when Burmese soldiers entered his farm hut and without warning shot him. His heart broken mother died about ten days later.

5. Sai Nyar, a 15 year old boy, told Jubilee how his family forced to relocate by Burmese army. It was not possible to obtain food in the area where they were moved to so they fled back to the fields in their old village. They hid in the jungle nearby and would tend to their fields when they were no Burmese soldiers around. One morning, in 1999, Sai Nyar was away hunting birds. Burmese troops found his family and relatives hiding in the jungle. They shot and killed his mother, father, sister, and two cousins, aged 5 and 6. There were other displaced families hiding in that area and Sai Nyar told Jubilee that he counted at least 20 bodies after the massacre.

6. 14 year old Toon Ngoi described how his father had been taken away by the Burmese army and forced to carry supplies for them in 1996. He never returned and presumed to have been killed by the Burmese soldiers who frequently kill porters who are too exhausted to continue working. His mother became very depressed and fell ill and died 4 months later.

Wilfred says, “Everyone I interviewed had first hand experience of atrocities by the Burmese armies and many of them had lost loved ones. Words cannot describe the pain on their faces as they recounted the horrors they had experienced. The suffering that these people had endured is unimaginable and it must be especially difficult for the many young orphans I came across, most of whom have lost their parents as a result of Burmese army atrocities. Thousands of Shan children have been orphaned by the brutality of the Burmese military and thousands more orphans will be created unless the international governments and community take stronger action to pressure the Burmese military regime to stop their Genocide against the Shan, Karen and Karenni”.

Reports by Amnesty International
Myanmar: The Institution of Torture: (16/26/2000) “Police and the army continue to use torture as to extract information, punish, humiliate and control the population. Torture is employed as an instrument by the authorities to keep the population living in a state of fear. The victims of torture in Myanmar are political activists, criminal prisoners, and members of ethnic groups. Torture has been reported over 4 decades yet the torture has remained constant.

Torture techniques include: “iron road” , rolling an iron up and down the shin until the skin peels off, the “helicopter”, being suspended from the ceiling and being spun around while being beaten; ”Taik Peik” spending weeks or months in tiny brick cells with little air or light; “ponsan”, forced to maintain difficult positions for long periods.

Alex Spillers of the Telegraph reports from the border region where Burma’s army is using rape as a weapon of war:
“Nang Lek has a recurring dream in which she runs and runs from pursuing soldiers. It ends before they catch her. “I wish in real life I had got away, but I didn’t”, she said in a fragile voice, bowing her head. One morning in January she and two other women, desperate for food, left the jungle where they had been hiding from the Burmese army, which earlier had attacked a nearby village. They came across a patrol and tried to escape. The other escaped but she was captured and ordered at gun point to go with them.

That evening her 15 day rape ordeal began,” I can’t remember how many there were. Who ever wanted came and slept with me. They used me like a dog”, Weak, emaciated and truamatised, she was freed near the point where she had been seized. Members of her family had to carry her for much of the day and a half journey to the doctor, where she recuperated before fleeing Shan State for Northern Thailand. Her account provides damning evidence in support of a new human rights report, “Licence to Rape”, which accuses Burmese troops of using sexual violence as a weapon of war to discourage support for rebel groups”.

Mr. Mats Henriksson/ Sweden wrote:
Dear Sir,

“I am ex-Staff-Sergeant with the Swedish Army Rangers. I served for 5 years in UN forces in Cyprus, Lebanon, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Saudi-Arabia.
I felt that from these experiences I had seen the worst side of human behaviour.

I wish to bring to your notice, brutal actions against civilian population, than I have seen before. I am writing about the Human Rights Violation the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) forces committing in Burma. The level of brutality in Burma is well documented. The genocide is on going, while the world community not does so much to stop it.
I have close contacts with Burmese, Shan, Karen and Hill Tribe population. By my contacts and by my conversation I had with them, they all ask me one question, You had served in many countries with UN forces, to help people to gain safety, to give those countries democracy. But the world is ignoring the flagrant violations of the human rights in Burma. Are we People not important?”

Besides the above crimes such as arbitrary killing, torturing, forced labour , massacre and gang- rape of women and girls the Burmese military junta also steal, rob money, food and small luxury like radios and motorcycles from the Shan citizens who are already living below the poverty line and fighting for survival.

Countless incidences of human rights violations, sometimes atrocious and sometime less so are going on everyday in the Shan State since the Burmese military coup in 1962. The Burmese junta denies these crimes, and thinks it can hide behind the curtain of the so called “Nation State” and continue to treat human beings like animals and hold on to power. The total number of Shan, Karen and Karenni murdered by the junta might one day surprise the world. Many international communities, especially governments seem indifferent and unmoved to learn about the victims of disaster caused by human actions. Yet when natural disaster strikes people all over the world are so touched and generous with fund and aid. You cannot prevent disaster caused by natural phenomena, but disaster caused by the actions of humans on other humans can be stopped by those who have the power and means to do so. If those that have the facility and power turn a blind eye to and tolerate such barbaric behaviour they are allowing Human civilisation to slip backwards. If this trend should continue terrorists will rule and there will be no hopes of peace in the world.

Please put yourself in place of these victims of human rights violations perpetrated by the Burmese army and think how you would feel if these atrocities were to happen to you, your family, relatives, friends and society?. Please think how you would feel to live in fear and terror every day of your life? To wonder where and how you are going to find food to survive?

Please campaign for honour, truth, justice and freedom
Please campaign for the endangered people of the Shan States
Please campaign for the Progress of Mankind

This article has been possible due to the monthly reports sent to me by Shan Human Rights Foundation. Thank you SHRF for your dedication.

Thanks are also due to Amnesty International, SWAN, Baroness Cox, Mr. Wilfred Wong, Alex Spiller of the Telegraph and Mats Eriksson of Sweden for helping to inform the world how the people of Burma are suffering under the present dictatorial Regime.