Why they run<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n
<\/strong><\/font>People from Rangoon fled only when their houses were on fire. For the villagers, they were running for their lives.<\/div>\n
<\/strong><\/font>People from Rangoon fled only when their houses were on fire. For the villagers, they were running for their lives.<\/div>\n
The villagers had to run in the areas where armed guerrillas were around.\u00a0 Whether these rebel groups had truce with the Tatmadaw or not, the villagers were still always on the run.<\/div>\n
The villages at the borders were food and supply chains for the rebels. When the Burmese military regime (the Tatmadaw) ordered the villages to be destroyed or relocated, the rebels were found themselves hard to run their operation. However for the villagers, they found themselves running for their lives. <\/div>\n
In one of the website run by the non-government organization, TBBC, Thailand Burma Border Consortium, http:\/\/tbbc.org, the situation of such villagers were reported both in English and Burmese language.<\/div>\n
According to the website, it said that the Tatmadaw forced the villagers to resettle in nearby towns or send them to specially assigned makeshift villages in order to take military advantage of such areas over the rebels and sometimes, they burnt the villages preventing the residences from returning back in the future.<\/div>\n
Villagers\u2019 Wishes<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThey do not disarm the land mines, and they (the Burmese army) do not withdraw from our place. We couldn\u2019t go home. All we want is peace and tranquility to be able to go back home\u201d<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Told one villager who recently fled from a village in \u201cThan Daung\u201d township.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In one of the repot from TBBC, it was read as follows; within last twenty years of civil war in Burma, some rebels agreed to cease-fire while some major rebels bases were occupied by the regime. That was why Burmese armies were now able to penetrate and expand their military access into some remote areas where they had never had before. It meant that more villages and villagers would be running into more trouble and despair. <\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Whatever danger and threat they were facing, the villagers regarded their villages as \u201chome sweet home\u201d and they had their farms and traditional family trade that they would love to carry on since from the past generation, they sneaked into these forbidden land to resettle again. The Tatmadaw could not allow such thing to happen. They had variety of cruel ways and means to get rid of these people. <\/p>\n
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