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Villagers tortured for "not seeing" the rebels

Three villagers from Kunhing, southern Shan State were beaten by the Burmese Army on 3 July and after they denied seeing and knowing the whereabouts of the Shan State Army (SSA) "South" fighters in the areas, reports Shan Herald correspondent from southern Shan State.

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  • Published: 2008-07-05

Ceasefire group under pressure to surrender

The National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS), commonly known as the Mongla group, has been urged twice last June to “exchange arms for peace,” a euphemism for surrender, according to a senior Shan officer from Mongla, opposite China’s Daluo.

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  • Published: 2008-07-05

Truck caught with drug chemicals released after bribe

After bribing the authorities, the truck which was seized with drug production facilities and precursor chemicals by Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) in Tachilek, eastern Shan State was released two weeks ago, reports Shan Herald correspondent from the Thai-Burma border.

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  • Published: 2008-07-04

Burma’s Sham Referendum

The following article appeared in Mekong Today, June issue. It talks about widespread irregularities that took place during the constitutional referendum.

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  • Published: 2008-07-03

Poll says people rejected the draft charter

According to a month-long exit poll conducted by SHAN, almost 63% of eligible voters had cast No against the draft constitution drawn by the military.

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  • Published: 2008-07-03

Fewer refineries but no less output

Compared to 2003 when SHAN’s Drug Watch published Show Business: Rangoon’s War on Drugs in Shan State, there appear to be fewer heroin or methamphetamine factories along the Thai-Burma border.

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  • Published: 2008-06-28

Sexual violence continues in Shan State

Sexual violence goes on in Shan State as the clashes between Burma Army and Shan State Army (SSA) increase, since the Burmese military beefed up its security forces, before the May 10 referendum and after the Cyclone Nargis devastated its delta areas, according to a Shan Herald reporte from the border.

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  • Published: 2008-06-27

Increased cultivation on the Shan-Kayah border

Junta authorities cannot be faulted for their efforts to whitewash themselves when it comes to drugs, but impoverished people are turning more and more to poppy cultivation along the Shan-Kayah border areas, says Karenni Anti-Drug Action Committee (KADAC), an independent fact-finding group based on the Maehongson-Kayah border.

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  • Published: 2008-06-27

Wanyin ill-informed choice for drug free project

More than two years after the Yawngkha drug free project was abandoned by Thailand, Burma’s latest Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein, on his 29 April-1 May visit, reportedly proposed another project in a locality hitherto unknown to the outside world.

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  • Published: 2008-06-26

Villagers flee to border to escape abuses by Burma Army

Villagers from Kunhing township, southern Shan State have been fleeing to Tachilek, Thai-Burma border to escape arrests and abuses committed by Burma Army following clash with Shan State Army last week, a Shan Herald reporter, Long Mai reports from the border.

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  • Published: 2008-06-26

Hard to be innocent in Burma

“The government is bankrupt and the generals have all the money,” reported Mizzima News, 25 April, quoting a member of an International NGO in Rangoon.

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  • Published: 2008-06-25

No opium free Burma in 2014 unless…

As the world’s anti-drug day 26 June draws near, Shan Drug Watch, a branch of SHAN, has bad news for Burma’s military rulers: opium output in Shan State is up from last year’s by all accounts, a progress in the opposite direction if their 15 year master plan is taken into account.

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  • Published: 2008-06-23

Nursing the Shan

On a bamboo bed in a dark clinic at Loi Taileng, a woman sits with her three children. One has a severe foot burn, which is all infected and ugly looking. It is very common for children in the rural villages to be burned when cooking pots overturn on the fire at the center of their hut. At the Loi Taileng temple there is a young monk who was horribly disfigured by similar burns which cover his face and head. A health worker explained to me that in the villages burns are often treated with a poultice of cow dung or with oil, both of which worsen the effects of the injuries.

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  • Published: 2008-06-21

Burmese exiles call for Suu Kyi’s release on her birthday

Burmese exiles in Thailand yesterday called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners in Burma on her 63rd birthday.

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  • Published: 2008-06-20

Shan migrant workers in Fang raided

Newly settled houses of Shan migrant workers in Chiangmai's Fang district were raided by the Thai authorities yesterday morning and 19 people have been detained at the Fang police station until now.

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  • Published: 2008-06-18
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