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| Burma Army arrests and tortures suspected of associating with SSA Posted: 26 Mar 2014 06:21 AM PDT CHIANG MAI-March 26. The Burma Army arrested and tortured five villagers suspected of associating with the RCSS, on March 21, in Kyawkme township, northern Shan State.  The tortured Ngar Jarng villagers (Photo: Shao Kyawkme) The torture took place when about 200 troops of Burma Army Light Infantry Battalions 77 and 503, attacked Ngar Jarng village, in Kyawkme township. The Burma Army also fired mortar shells into Ngar Jarng village. One fell on the house of a villager called Sai Mart. The other two fell besides the village. The Ngar Jarng village headman Sai Jarm also was arrested after the Burma Army searched his house and found a gun. He was taken to at Sai Aung Mo, the head of Mongtarng militia, then tortured and interrogated. On March 23, the Burma Army referred Sai Jarm to Kyawkme police. When Sai Jarm's relatives tried to visit him, the police did not allow them to meet him, saying they were in the process of interrogating him. Sai Kham Kyaw, the head of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) in Kyawkme said: "The Burma Army found a walky-talky at a restaurant at Ngar Jarng village, so they accused the villagers of being spies of a rebel group. We will help the case so that the headman can be released soon." Ngar Jarng village is about 20 miles from Kyawkme township. The Burma Army has reinforced its troops in the area to at least 500 soldiers. On March 24, the Burma Army also arrested and tortured Sai Aung Leng, the owner of a restaurant in Nam Lin Pone village, Kyawkme, where the Burma Army found the tax bill of a rebel group. |
| Do No Harm aid can still bring harm: Burma researcher Posted: 26 Mar 2014 06:19 AM PDT  An independent consultant specializing in conflict, security and humanitarian affairs in Burma has warned that international NGOs coming into Burma with Do No Harm (DNH) slogans, without proper use of its analysis tool, can still do more of the negative than positive impacts on the country's ongoing conflict."Aid can change conflict," Kim Joliffe told researchers of the newly-established Pyidaungsu Institute (PI) for Peace and Dialogue in Chiangmai yesterday. "We can use aid to either reduce or escalate it." The Do No Harm (DNH) approach was developed by Mary Anderson following the Cold War. It provides a 7 step process which aid actors are implored to undertake to ensure that their programs do no harm: Step 1: Understanding the context of conflict Step 2: Analyzing dividers (divisions) and tensions Step 3: Analyzing connectors (that can help ameliorate dividers) and local capacities for peace (LCPs) Step 4: Analyzing the assistance programme Step 5: Analyzing the assistance programme's impact on dividers and connectors Step 6: Considering (and generating) programming options Step 7: Test programming options and redesign project  Book cover: Do No Harm He gave an example of the core grievances in ethnic areas least known by outsiders. "A Karen internally displaced person explained during consultations I held last June," he said. "'We don't need the Bamar (government) to build us new houses or anything else – we just need them to stop burning down the ones we already built.'" Joliffe suggested that the ideal solution would be convergence of state and non-state structures under an ethos of equality, whereby egalitarian partnerships are formed in aid of common goals. "Aid can then be provided through these joint state-and-non-state structures," he said. |
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