PHOTO DESCRIPTION LIST: SET 93-A

An Independent Report by the Karen Human Rights Group
January 1993


[Note: Clicking on a photo will provide an enlargement of the photo]

This list describes photos sent out to supplement the following reports by the Karen Human Rights Group:

Related Reports Reference Term
1. Karenni State:
     Forced Relocation, Concentrations Camps and Slavery
(10/8/92)
2. Supplementary Report on Karenni State (15/11/92)
3. Report by an Escaped SLORC Munitions Porter (13/11/92)
4. The Current Situation in Mudraw (Papun) District (13/11/92)
5. Forced Relocation in Thaton District (9/1/93)
6. Porter Testimonies:  The SLORC's Saw Hta Offensive (10/1/93)
7. Porter Testimonies:  Kawmoora Region (31/12/92)

"Karenni"

"Supplementary"
"Porter"
"Mudraw"
"Thaton"
"Saw Hta"
"Kawmoora"

The peoples’ names given in this list correspond to the names used for them in the reports; these are not their real names.  These photos many be duplicated, distributed or published for non-commercial purposes in the interest of spreading information on the plight of people in Burma.  Prints of most of the photos can be provided on request, but please send a contribution to cover transport, duplication and postal costs, and allow for the time it will take us to send the negatives out to be copied.  Photos can also be sent via email upon request.


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Photo #1:  Koo Hteh Moo with wife and child ("Supplementary", p.4)

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Photo #2:  Koo Maw Lay with son and other refugees ("Karenni" p. 6)

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Photo #3:  Saw Pah Wah and some of his family ("Supplementary", p.3)

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Photo #4:  Koo Htee Rai and family ("Supplementary", p. 6)

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Photo #5:  Naw Hai May and 4 of her 5 children ("Supplementary", p. 1)

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Photos #6, 7:  Naw Ler Eh and children ("Karenni", p. 4)

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Photo #8:  Naw Eh Paw and most of her children ("Supplementary", p.5)

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Photo #9:  Sai Win Nai, 60 year old Shan porter ("Saw Hta", p. 7)

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Photos #10, 11:  Myint Aung, convict porter .  Photo #11 is Myint Aung showing a head wound recieved from a SLORC rifle butt. ("Porter", p. 1)

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Photo #12:  Aik Htun showing some of his beating scars ("Saw Hta", p. 8)

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Photo #13:  L to R, Saw Htoo Lay, Kwa Mu Htoo & Saw Lway Ghay ("Kawmoora").  Kwa Mu Htoo, age 15, received the head wound when SLORC fired a grenade launcher at him and 3 friends while trying to escape. One friend was killed, the other 2 are missing and presumed dead.

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Photo #14:  Sai Kham Pan & Sai Kan Leit ("Saw Hta", p.6). Sai Kan Leit was shot in the hip with a slingshot and stone by a soldier for being "too slow".  Sai Kham Pan’s forehead was cut open when he was pushed down onto a rock.

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Photo #15:  Emaciated Shan porter, Saw Hta offensive. He arrived with a body weight of only about 90 pounds, suffering from untreated amoebic dysentery & pneumonia.  He soon began vomiting blood, and almost died.  He was evacuated to hospital and survived, but is still recovering.   He is 28, with wife & one infant in Shan State.

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Photos #16-18:  Karen refugees from Saw Hta offensive, upper Salween. ("Mudraw")

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Photos #19, 20:  Karen refugees from SLORC’s forced relocation campaign on going in Thaton District. ("Thaton")

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Photo #21:  A porter’s corpse found in a pit, late 1992, Nai Et Daung area (south of 3 Pagoda Pass).  It appears that his head was beaten in with a rifle butt, then he was shoved into the pit.  His right hand still clutches a stick or piece of cloth he must have grabbed when he fell.

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Photo #22:  A Karen soldier with suspected chemical weapon burn from an Air Force rocket attack at Naw Deh (Manerplaw area) in Feb/92.  Medics first noted that his upper body had extensive burns but his uniform was intact.  For months he suffered impaired mobility in his upper and lower body.  When this photo was taken in 12/92, his mobility was almost normal but the burn was still painful and had been spreading.