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FORCED RELOCATION IN LOI LEM
FORCED RELOCATION IN LOI LEM
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Map of VILLAGES FORCIBLY RELOCATED IN LOI LEM TOWNSHIP (1996 - 1998) |
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| Background of the area The town of Parng Long in Loi Lem is famous for being where the Parng Long Agreement was signed in 1948. This was the treaty that bound together the Union of Burma until Ne Win seized power in 1962 and nullified the agreement. The majority of the population in the Parng Long area are farmers. Crops include rice, tea and cheroot-leaves. The town is also famous as being one of the biggest trading centres in Shan State, and has a large Chinese community. Some territories in Loi Lem are under the control of the Pa-O ceasefire groups. |
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| Relocation There were no relocations in Loi Lem in 1996 or in 1997, as no Shan resistance troops were operating there. Even now, there has been no fighting with Shan troops in the area, but in January 1998, SPDC troops began ordering villages in the areas to the north of the township to move to the town of Parng Long. They gave them 5-7 days to move. When villagers were found in the villages after the deadline, their houses were burned down, and they were beaten. |
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| Extrajudicial killings in the relocation areas SHRF has documented the rape and killing of a woman from Parng Long near Hai Narng by SPDC troops from LIB 513 on November 23 1997. |
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| Conditions in the relocation sites Nothing has been provided in the relocation site. The rice of the villagers has been confiscated by the army and then rationed back. The villagers that have moved there are not allowed to return to their fields, and have been forced to work digging bunkers and building fences at the nearby army camp. Some have been taken as porters. People are surviving by doing wage labour on local people's farms and by cutting firewood to sell. |
Teenager killed but perpetrator still missing
