Karenni Forced Relocations

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Photo #10: Kwa Chi village, southwestern Karenni, burned to the ground by SLORC in one of their operations to destroy all villages they’ve forced to relocate. [Photo: Karenni sources]

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Photos #11, 12: Daw Kraw Aw village, Shadaw township, northern Karenni, burned to the ground by SLORC in one of their operations to destroy all villages they’ve forced to relocate. [Photos: Karenni sources]

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Photos #13,14: Daw Ei Hla village, Shadaw township, burned to the ground by SLORC in one of their operations to destroy all villages they’ve forced to relocate. Note in the second photo the villagers’ cattle, which they had to leave behind when they fled. [Photo: Karenni sources]

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Photo #15: Daw Ei Hla village, Shadaw township (see also photos above). This woman was 60 years old and blind, so when the villagers fled she stayed behind in the village. She fell down in her house and starved to death. Her remains were found like this by a KNPP guerrilla column 1-2 months later. The money visible beside her head was put there by the Karenni soldiers, to help her spirit on its way. [Photo: Karenni sources]

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Photo #16: Koo Po Reh is crippled and cannot walk, so the others had to leave him behind when they fled Daw Leh Dah village, between the Pon and Salween Rivers. Karenni soldiers later found him like this, alone in his village. [Photo: Karenni sources]

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Photos #17-19: Kayah people fleeing their villages and heading for SLORC relocation sites to avoid being shot, central Karenni State. [Photos: Karenni sources]

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Photo #20: SLORC relocation site near Baw La Keh. The sign reads in Burmese, "New Nam Peh Section, Baw La Keh District". [Photo: Karenni sources]

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Photos #21,22: Nwa La Bo relocation camp, home to over 600 forcibly relocated villagers, north of the Karenni capital of Loikaw. [Photos: Karenni sources]

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Photos #23-26: Ei Pyin (a.k.a. Naung Kyin), age 19, Karenni refugee at Camp 2 in Thailand. SLORC invaded Thailand to attack the camp on 3 January 1997, killing 3 refugees and wounding at least 9 others. Ei Pyin was hit by shrapnel from a SLORC mortar shell while she ran from her house with her husband, and died shortly afterwards. [Photos: A.M.M. (ABSDF)]

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Photos #27,28: Ai Pon, age 30, a Karenni refugee at Camp 2 in Thailand. He was also killed in the attack on 3 January. [Photos: A.M.M. (ABSDF)]

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Photo #29: One of the Karenni refugees wounded in the 3 January attack against Karenni Camp 2, undergoing treatment in Mae Hong Son hospital, Thailand. [Photo: A.M.M. (ABSDF)]