LISTENING TO THE SHAN COMMUNITIES IN BAHMO DISTRICT KACHIN STATE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Title Page                                                                        i

Acknowledgements                                                        ii

Table of Contents                                                           iii

List of Acronyms                                                             iv

I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY                                                1

               Appeals from the War Victims                        3

II. INTRODUCTION                                                         6

Aim                                                                                 7

Background on the Listening Project                             8

Brief History of Shan People in Kachin State                 9

Scope and Limitation of the Report                               11

III. METHODOLOGY                                                        12

Listening Teams and Facilitation                                   13

Report’s Participants                                                       13

Report Development                                                       15

Process of the Listening Activities                                  15

IV. CHARACTERISTIC OF TARGET AREAS                        19

Data Collecting Areas                                                      22

Location One: Dawthphoneyan                                       22

Location Two: Mo Mauk                                                  22

Location Three: Mansi                                                     23

Location Four: Bahmo                                                     23

V. TATMADAW and KIA Abuses in Kachin State              24

Unjustified Killings                                                         24

Burning Down Villages                                                   26

Forced Recruitment of Soldiers                                      30

Landmines                                                                      32

Rape and Forced Marriage                                             35

Forced Labor                                                                  37

Article 17/1 and Ill-Treatment                                       38

Forced Recruitment of Child Soldiers                            42

Illegitimate Taxation and Confiscation                         43

VI. CONSEQUENCES OF THE PROTRACTED CONFLICT  47

VII. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS                59

REFERENCE                                                                    56

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