U Win Mya
Chairman
Myanmar Human Rights Commission
No-27, Prome Road, Ward-11, Hlaing
Township
Rangoon.
Dated:
October 6, 2012.
Subject:
A daughter’s plea to punish the KIA men who murdered my parents.
Respected Chairman of
Myanmar Human Rights Commission,
I, Daw Waing Tin, the
holder of National Registration Card No. 1/ma-ma-na(naing)- 020140, would like
to report the murders of my parents to your esteemed commission. My parents were
U Kyaw Swe and Daw Yar who were brutally murdered by the so-called Kachin Independence
Army (KIA).
I’d been living with my parents in the Tain-ma-kyaing village
of Daw-phone-yang sub-township in Bamaw district, and we were earning our
honest living by farming and also having a small grocery shop in our village.
About a year ago both my parents were taken away by the KIA and just last month
we learned the fact from the escapees from KIA that both my parents were
brutally killed by the KIA soon after they were kidnapped.
We had been angry and extremely upset since the day we
knew the true story of what happened to our parents. If we ever had a chance we
felt like we could kill and eat the raw flesh of KIA men who killed our parents
and the KIA leaders responsible for ordering the kidnappings and tortures and killings
of our parents in Kachin State.
With deep respect and strong confidence that your
commission will investigate and do whatever necessary to punish the KIA men and
leaders responsible for the murders of our parents I had written this letter to
you.
We have five siblings, but I am the only one living with
our parents while the rest were living in Shwe-kyay-nar ward of Bamaw town. At
the time of their murders my father was 56 and my mother 55.
Our little village of Tain-ma-kyaing is on the west-bank
of Moe-le stream. Directly opposite of us, on the east-bank is the new village
of Taing-sint. And Naung-phar and Tar-saing villages were the neighbouring
villages on the same side of Moe-le stream as our village.
Majority of people in our area are Shans and there are some
Kachins and Burmese and other ethnic nationality races living peacefully together.
Most people here work as farmers and many have banana farms after the banana
companies have been doing business in the area.
As the rest of
Myanmar our area has the same administrative system run by the elected village-administrators
to administer the village affairs. My father was elected as the village-administrator
of our village by the majority of people in April 2011. As a well-respected
elder in the area he was also considered as the administrator of our
village-tract comprising the adjacent villages.
Since June 2011 KIA insurgents have been committing so
many atrocious disturbances adversely affecting the village people from our
area. On 20 August 2011, a so-called second-lieutenant named Brang-naung and
about 20 men from KIA Battalion-24 of KIA Fifth Brigade arrived at Shan-thein-sint village on the
Moe-ne Stream to collect hefty protection money (Set-kyay) from the commercial
boats operating along the stream.
On one motorised-boat they found and later confiscated 20
bags of rice ordered by my father for our village. By using this as an excuse
they ordered by a messenger my father to come to the Shan-thein-sint village.
Once my father was there the KIA men had tied him up with ropes and beaten him brutally
after accusing him of a Burma army’s collaborator.
My mother had bravely followed him to Shan-thein-sint
village once she knew of the kidnapping and torture of my father by KIA Kachins.
She kowtowed and begged KIA Brang-naung who was just her son’s age that her
husband was just a simple man earning an honest living and he was no
collaborator and without him us five children and the whole family would
utterly suffer.
After so many hours of begging for her beloved husband’s
life she finally told his KIA captors and torturers that she would not go back
home without her husband and if they were to kill him they also had to kill
her. Angry KIA Kachin men then tied her together with her husband and dragged
them to the Mone-san-yang the stronghold of KIA Fifth Brigade. On the way both
my parents were constantly beaten by KIA Brang-naung and his Kachins.
My poor father went
through torture-filled interrogation sessions in the hands of the Kachin
torturers of KIA Fifth Brigade at Mone-san-yang. His eyes were picked out with
a knife one by one, his eardrums were pierced and his ears were chopped off one
buy one. They then cut off all his limbs one after another. Finally he died
from the brutal KIA tortures.
Once he was dead the KIA Kachin men took my mother into the jungle
near the village of Sut-hlyan and brutally killed her there. While she was
dying they broke her both legs and hanged her almost-dead body upside down from
a tree branch and fed her to the wild pigs while she was still alive and
breathing. Anyone could understand our deep anguish and sorrows when we finally
heard of what exactly the KIA Kachins had done to our Shan parents.
After the KIA kidnapping
of our parents we children had to flee the village and hide as KIA was looking
for us to kill us all. Following is the list of my brothers and sisters who
have been suffering utterly form the kidnapping and murder of our Shan parents
by the KIA Kachins.
1. U
Tin Oo (son), 1/da-pha-ya(naing) 000378, Shwe-kyay-nar village, Bamaw.
2. U
Aung Than (son), 1/da-pha-ya(naing) 000374, Shwe-kyay-nar village, Bamaw.
3. Daw
Aye Htun (daughter), 1/ba-ma-na(naing) 030769, Shwe-kyay-nar village, Bamaw.
4. Daw
Waing Kyi (daughter), 1/ba-ma-na(naing) 009038, Shwe-kyay-nar village, Bamaw.
At present in our
region the KIA Kachins have been committing the criminal acts of forcing the
villagers as their porters, forcing the villagers to lay landmines against the
army columns, and forcefully confiscating our crops and livestock as their food
supply.
The Kachin KIA has
also been forcing every village, mostly Shan villages as there are not many
Kachin villages left in the area, to supply at least 10-15 forced-recruits and
if the village cannot provide that number of young men and women they are to
pay hefty money to the KIA.
They have been forcing
old men from the villages into their village militia and also taking many young
women said to be trained as KIA paramedics. But the pretty Shan women mostly
end up as the mistresses and whores of KIA officers and KIO political leaders
while the rest are being raped constantly by the KIA Kachin soldiers.
Like our family there
are many others who have suffered enormously in the hands of the Kachin
criminals of KIA/KIO but they do not dare or have a chance to submit a
complaint like me.
With this letter I faithfully
and honestly report to you so that your Commission can thoroughly investigate
and let the whole country and also the whole world know all the true facts
about KIA (Kachin) criminals and the enormous sufferings of our (Shan) people.
Submitter,
Signed
(Daw
Waing Tin)
1/ma-ma-na(naing)
020140
Tain-ma-kyaing
Village
Daw-phone-yang
sub-township
Bamaw
district.
(Following three photos are the pages of Daw Waing Tin's Original plea in Burmese.)
Related posts at following links:
KIA: THe Highway Robbers and Rapist Cowards
KIA's Atrocious Land-mine Campaign against People
KIA Massacre at Sadone Town
(Following three photos are the pages of Daw Waing Tin's Original plea in Burmese.)
Related posts at following links:
KIA: THe Highway Robbers and Rapist Cowards
KIA's Atrocious Land-mine Campaign against People
KIA Massacre at Sadone Town