{"id":1025,"date":"2015-11-06T03:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T03:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2021-06-30T08:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T08:24:43","slug":"naypyidaw-must-immediately-stop-its-attacks-in-central-shan-state-and-let-communities-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Naypyidaw must immediately stop its attacks in central Shan State and let communities return home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naypyidaw must immediately stop its attacks in central Shan State and let communities return home<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shan Community Based Organisations (CBOs) strongly denounce the current military offensive by Naypyidaw in central Shan State, which has caused civilian injury and displaced over 6,000 villagers since it began one month ago on October 6.<\/p>\n

This large scale military operation, involving 14 battalions, heavy artillery and fighter jets, has terrorized local communities, causing women, children and elderly from 22 villages in Tang Yan, Mong Hsu, Mong Nawng and Ke See townships to abandon their homes. The indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas, including during sacred Buddhist festivals, makes it clear that Naypyidaw has no respect for human rights or humanitarian law.<\/p>\n

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Those displaced are now sheltering in makeshift camps, in urgent need of humanitarian aid and protection. Yet the Burma Army is continuing to launch attacks close to the camps, and has started blocking humanitarian access to the displaced.<\/p>\n

To add insult to injury, Naypyidaw has used the fighting as a pretext to cancel the election in Mong Hsu Ke See townships, depriving local people of their democratic right to vote. It is well known the ruling military-backed party would have lost the vote in these areas.<\/p>\n

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This offensive, in violation of an existing ceasefire agreement with the Shan State Progress Party\/Shan State Army (SSPP\/SSA), makes it clear that Naypyidaw has no desire for peace. If they did, they would have been inclusive in inviting all groups to sign their \u201cNationwide Ceasefire Agreement\u201d and ended all military offensives, to pave the way for political dialogue.\u00a0 Naypyidaw is simply posturing at peace-building, while continuing their decades-long strategy of invading ethnic territories to plunder their rich natural resources. In Shan State, this includes the building of large dams on the Salween, to export hydropower.<\/p>\n

Shan CBOs demand that Naypyidaw immediately end their military offensives in central Shan State and other ethnic areas of Burma, and impose a moratorium on natural resource extraction in ethnic areas, until there is genuine federal reform.<\/p>\n

Shan CBOs urge the international community, particularly those coming to monitor Burma\u2019s elections, to publicly denounce Naypyidaw\u2019s ongoing offensives against the ethnic peoples. The immediate ending of these offensives must be a benchmark for any further engagement with Naypyidaw.<\/p>\n

Shan CBOs also urge international donors to provide humanitarian aid to those displaced by the recent conflict in central Shan State, through local community based groups or civil society organizations.<\/p>\n

Endorsed by the following Shan CBOs:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 California Shan Social and Cultural Society (USA)<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0Singapore Shan Family<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0Shan Refugee Organization (Malaysia)<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0Tai Youth Network<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0Shan State Youth Network Committee<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0Kham Ku Center for Study and Development<\/li>\n
  7. \u00a0Mauk Kon Organization<\/li>\n
  8. \u00a0Shan Farmers\u2019 Network<\/li>\n
  9. \u00a0Shan Human Rights Foundation<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0Shan Women\u2019s Action Network<\/li>\n
  11. \u00a0Shan Youth Power<\/li>\n
  12. \u00a0Shan Youth Power Group<\/li>\n
  13. \u00a0Shan Sapawa Environmental Organization<\/li>\n
  14. \u00a0Shan State Development Foundation<\/li>\n
  15. \u00a0Shan Youth Network Group<\/li>\n
  16. \u00a0Tai Youth Organization<\/li>\n
  17. \u00a0Shan Youth Organization<\/li>\n
  18. \u00a0Koong Jor Refugee Committee<\/li>\n
  19. \u00a0Shan Refugee Committee<\/li>\n
  20. \u00a0Worker Solidarity Association<\/li>\n
  21. \u00a0Migrant Worker Federation<\/li>\n
  22. \u00a0Jao Khur Tai Organization<\/li>\n
  23. \u00a0Shan Students\u2019 Union\u00a0 (Chiang Mai)<\/li>\n
  24. \u00a0Shan Students\u2019 Union (Bangkok)<\/li>\n
  25. \u00a0Shan Literature and Culture Society (Chiang Mai)<\/li>\n
  26. \u00a0Shan Literature and Culture Association (Mong Hsu)<\/li>\n
  27. \u00a0Toom Toan Tai Organization<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Naypyidaw must immediately stop its attacks in central Shan State and let communities return home   Shan Community Based Organisations (CBOs) strongly denounce the current military offensive by Naypyidaw in central Shan State, which has caused civilian injury and displaced over 6,000 villagers since it began one month ago on October 6. This large scale military operation, involving 14 battalions, heavy artillery and fighter jets, has terrorized local communities, causing women, children and elderly from 22 villages in Tang Yan, Mong Hsu, Mong Nawng and Ke See townships to abandon their homes. The indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas, including during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmese.shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}