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Burmese Prisoners in Indonesia Appeal to Embassy for Release
8/24/2009
Dhaka: Five Burmese prisoners in Bali, Indonesia, have appealed to the Burmese embassy there to help them safely return home, but the embassy has yet to respond to their request, according to a report.
The five were arrested by the Indonesian coast guard in mid-2008 soon after they had jumped overboard from an Indonesian fishing boat they had been forced to work on.
According to a source close to them, they were sold to the Indonesian fishing boat operators by Thai human traffickers. They had been handed to the Thais by Burmese traffickers at Myawaddy, the town opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot.
The men had failed to pay 1,300 baht to the Burmese traffickers in Myawaddy after Thai police had arrested them and forced them back across the border. When they were unable to pay the asking price of the Burmese traffickers, they were handed over to the Thai traffickers who sold them.
When they arrived at the fishing boat, the owner forced them to work non-stop and sometimes tortured them. They were not always given enough food and went hungry, according to the account.
They eventually escaped from the boat by jumping into the water. Another fishing boat eventually rescued them and transferred them to the Indonesian coast guard.
Since then, they have been detained in a prison on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Among the five men are three Arakanese who have been identified as Maung Shwe Than and Aung Tha Kyaw from Kyauktaw, and Aung Kyaw Naing from Ponna Kyunt in Arakan State.
The other two men are ethnic Burmese and have been identified as Aung That Pai from Thaninthaye Division and Maung Win Aung from Irrawaddy Division. All are around 20 to 30 years of age.
According to a source, the Burmese embassy does not typically take action on such cases, but they are still anxiously awaiting a response.
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Irrawaddy hydropower project to displace many Kachin villagers
Monday, 24 August 2009 19:40
The Burmese military junta plans to shift ethnic Kachin villages around the hydropower project area in the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River (also called Mali Hka River in Kachin) in Burma’s northern Kachin State, said local sources.
Over 60 Kachin villages, around the hydropower project site near the confluence of Mali Hka River and N’mai Hka River also called Mali-N’mai Zup in Kachin and Myitsone in Burmese, 27 miles north of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, are on the list of villages to be moved by the junta, said a local watchdog group.
On August 5, officials of Myitkyina Town Administrative Office (Ma-Ya-Ka) including officials of multi-government departments in the town held a meeting with villagers of Chyinghkrang in the zone to be cleared, 17 miles north of Myitkyina. The villagers were officially told to shift by the Ma-Ya-Ka officials, said villagers.
Simultaneously, commander Maj-Gen Soe Win, of the Myitkyina-based Northern Regional command (Ma-Pa-Kha) met the same villagers next day. The villagers were told by the commander that they would have to move, added villagers.
The commander told the villagers by demonstrating with a bulldozer on the hill near the village that “You Kachins have lived on the mountain forever but you don’t know about terrace cultivation. You don’t need to dwell in the valley,” villagers of Chyinghkrang quoted him as saying.
During the two-day meeting, some villagers attended without wearing clothes on the upper part of the body to show their displeasure regarding the plans of moving the villages, said participants.
Salang Tsa Ji, general secretary of Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG), based on the Sino-Burma border told KNG today, the junta has sanctioned 35 miles of land around the hydropower project site to the Burma-Asia World Company which has started inspection with the Chinese government’s China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) since 2006.
The land includes about 2,000 acres of rubber plantation of Salang Wadu Sin Wa and over 300 acres of rubber plantation of Salang Yup Zau Hkawng, the owner of the Jadeland Myanmar Company, added KDNG general secretary Tsa Ji.
Local eyewitnesses said, the Asia World Company has been mining gold in Loiyang Bum Mountain, which is situated between Mali Hka River and N’Mai Hka River, near the confluence since last year.
On June 16 at Hebei Hall of the Great Hall of the People in China’s capital Beijing, Burmese Ambassador to China U Thein Lwin and CPI president Mr. Lu Qizhou signed an agreement to implement hydropower projects in Mali Hka River, N’Mai Hka River and the Irrawaddy River confluence in Kachin State, according to the junta-run newspaper the New Light of Myanmar dated on June 21, 2009.
Following the agreement, the junta’s No. 2 in the military hierarchy Vice Snr-Gen Maung Aye visited the Irrawaddy River confluence on July 19, said local residents.
Soon after Snr-Gen Maung Aye’s visit to the hydropower project site, each family in the villages around the project site were forcibly made to sign on a special form regarding displacement. The form was provided by the Asia World Company by the firm’s personnel accompanied with policemen and government land-survey officers, said villagers of Tang Hpre at the confluence.
A villager of Tang Hpre said they had to fill up the form and give the family members’ list along with their occupations, house status, number of fruit trees in the house compounds and the size of family-owned land and plantation.
The Kachin villagers around the hydropower project site are yet to be instructed to move to new areas. They have not been offered any compensation for their loss by either Asia World Company or the junta, said villagers in the zone.
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