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Library Hpapun Incident Report: Home guard killed by Tatmadaw landmine in Lu Thaw Township, January 2014

Hpapun Incident Report: Home guard killed by Tatmadaw landmine in Lu Thaw Township, January 2014

Hpapun Incident Report: Home guard killed by Tatmadaw landmine in Lu Thaw Township, January 2014

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Date of publication
mei 2014
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:75270

This Incident Report describes the death of a home guard on January 24th 2014 after he stepped on a Tatmadaw landmine whilst hunting for birds in the forest. Home guards are villagers who provide security for communities of civilians in hiding. Widespread displacement occurred in Lu Thaw Township during Tatmadaw offensives in 1997 and between 2005 and 2008. Since then, many of those displaced have lived in make-shift, temporary housing in the jungle and mountainous areas with inadequate health and education facilities and without access to land on which to grow food for daily consumption. Villagers living in these areas have demanded that local Tatmadaw bases be closed so they can return to their homes, and have highlighted a range of risks associated with living in internal displacement sites, including exposure to landmines.

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