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Paung Village is in Hpa-An District, an area mainly controlled by Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 7. Significant amounts of rock dust have polluted nearby lakes and wells used for drinking water. Many children consuming the contaminated water have suffered from allergies, diarrhoea, skin rashes, and respiratory diseases, according to a KNU village healthcare department official. He added that whilst…

The revelation comes from a report, ‘Children and Families in Tragedy: Massacres in Kawthoolei’ published by the KNU Human Rights Committee (KHRC) on 10 December 2024, International Human Rights Day. It was released to raise public awareness of the junta’s war crimes in Kawthoolei Region and to encourage greater public participation in the pursuit of justice, according to the KHRC.…

There has been tension between the DKBA and the NMSP on the Payathonzu to Palai Japan Road since late November. But, in the first week of December, leaders from both sides met and agreed to stop moving their checkpoints further forward down the road towards each other. The NMSP also agreed to notify the DKBA in advance of when it…

Since 2021, clashes have occurred occasionally in Thaton Township between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the KNU, and the junta. The junta has been indiscriminately firing artillery into rural areas, forcing locals to flee and preventing many schools from opening. In some villages within the Shweyaungpya Village Tract, children fear attending school because of the…

Many teenagers in the camp are struggling with drug addiction, and the number of female drug users is on the rise, according to Saw Sunday, the Mae La Camp Secretary. He said that following instructions from the Thai authorities, starting in the first week of December, young people in the camp will be subjected to random urine tests to detect…

The junta used two aircraft, a Y-12 utility plane and a jet fighter to drop around 40 bombs in the area of Hsenghkun Village, at about 3:00 am on 3 December 2024. The aircraft carried out eight bombing runs with the Y-12 dropping about 30 bombs and the fighter jet dropping about 10 bombs, according to a source in the…

On 14 August 2024, torrential rains triggered flooding in Shan State’s Tachileik Town on the Myanmar side and Mae Sai Town in Chiang Rai Province, on the Thai side. While both towns have faced floods in previous years, this year’s event was unprecedented, leaving behind large amounts of sediment after the floodwaters receded. According to a report on the pollution,…

The 39 foreigners were picked up by Thai soldiers on 25 November after escaping from scam gangs operating in Kyauk Khet and Mehtawthalay villages in Myawaddy Township. They were picked up at around 5:00 am on 25 November after they had entered Thailand by crossing the the Thaungyin (Moei) River, which delineates the border “They were 39 foreigners who had…

Kawkareik District roughly corresponds to the Karen National Union (KNU) district of Dooplaya which is mainly controlled by KNU Brigade 6. The victims were identified as: U Rakhine, aged 69, who was retired but used to work at the electricity department; his daughter, Daw Theint Theint Thu, aged 36, a former government employee; and her nephew, Maung Sai Wunna Tun,…

This justification was posted on the pro junta Myo Chit Myanmar (A Hmway Sein) Telegram Channel on 18 November. The channel has about 1,400 subscribers and the post has already been viewed by at least 400 people. But, KIC’s fact-checking team reviewed the information and decided that Myo Chit Myanmar’s claims that Karenni resistance force fighters were hiding in Bangkok…