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KACHIN STATE, BHAMO DISTRICT Bhamo Township Report
THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census KACHIN STATE, BHAMO DISTRICT Bhamo Township Report Department of Population Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population October 2017 The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census Kachin State, Bhamo District Bhamo Township Report Department of Population Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population Office No.48 Nay Pyi Taw Tel: +95 67 431062 www.dop.gov.mm October 2017 Figure 1: Map of Kachin State, showing the townships Bhamo Township Figures at a Glance 1 Total Population 135,877 2 Population males 66,718 (49.1%) Population females 69,159 (50.9%) Percentage of urban population 43.2% Area (Km2) 1,965.8 3 Population density (per Km2) 69.1 persons Median age 25.2 years Number of wards 13 Number of village tracts 45 Number of private households 24,161 Percentage of female headed households 29.7% Mean household size 4.9 persons 4 Percentage of population by age group Children (0 – 14 years) 30.5% Economically productive (15 – 64 years) 64.8% Elderly population (65+ years) 4.7% Dependency ratios Total dependency ratio 54.2 Child dependency ratio 46.9 Old dependency ratio 7.3 Ageing index 15.5 Sex ratio (males per 100 females) 97 Literacy rate (persons aged 15 and over) 94.7% Male 96.8% Female 93.0% People with disability Number Per cent Any form of disability 7,448 5.5 Walking 2,977 2.2 Seeing 4,114 3.0 Hearing 2,262 1.7 Remembering 2,380 1.8 Type of Identity Card (persons aged 10 and over) Number Per cent Citizenship Scrutiny 81,655 74.7 Associate Scrutiny -
MYANMAR Humanitarian Update No
MYANMAR Humanitarian Update No. 7 27 May 2021 This regular update, covering humanitarian developments in conflict-affected areas from 24 April to 24 May, is produced by OCHA Myanmar in collaboration with the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group and UNHCR. The next update will be issued towards the end of June 2021. HIGHLIGHTS • Around 46,000 people were displaced in the south-eastern part of Myanmar between April and May due to the conflict and insecurity, about 37,000 of them displaced in late May following the clashes in Kayah State. • In Chin State, thousands have been internally displaced following an escalation of hostilities in the town of Mindat since 12 May. • In northern Shan, clashes between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and among EAOs continue and around 2,800 people were displaced in May. A total of 8,400 people who have fled since January 2021 remain displaced. • In Kachin State, there has been no new displacement during the reporting period, despite the active armed conflict between the MAF and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA); about 8,500 people who fled insecurity since mid-March remain displaced. • No new population displacement has been reported in Rakhine State. Cases of acute watery diarrhea (AWD) are reported in IDP camps in Mrauk-U, Paukaw and Sittwe townships. • Humanitarian response remains severely constrained in all conflict-affected areas due to insecurity, banking disruptions, road blockages and pre-existing access challenges. • Myanmar Humanitarian Fund First Standard Allocation of US$10 million launched on 13 May has been amended with an additional $0.35 million to scale up response in Chin State. -
They Block Everything
Cover: Border Post 6 camp for displaced “ civilians near the China border in Myanmar’s Kachin State. Myanmar government restrictions on humanitarian aid have resulted in shortages of blankets, clothing, THEY bedding, and other essential items, making harsh winters unnecessarily difficult for displaced civilians. ©James Higgins / Partners Relief and BLOCK Development, February 2016 EVERYTHING“ Avoidable Deprivations in Humanitarian Aid to Ethnic Civilians Displaced by War in Kachin State, Myanmar Fortify Rights works to ensure human rights for all. We investigate human rights violations, engage people with power on solutions, and strengthen the work of human rights defenders, affected communities, and civil society. We believe in the influence of evidence-based research, the power of strategic truth- telling, and the importance of working closely with individuals, communities, and movements pushing for change. We are an independent, nonprofit organization based in Southeast Asia and registered in the United States and Switzerland. TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 8 METHODOLOGY � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 17 BACKGROUND �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 19 I. RESTRICTIONS ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 25 II� IMPACTS OF AID RESTRICTIONS ON DISPLACED POPULATIONS IN KACHIN STATE� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � -
Conflict of Interests CMYK
Part Two: Logging in Burma / 19 The China-Burma Border processed here originates in Burma. Workers in the increasing presence of the SPDC had led to more Yingjian told Global Witness that the Tatmadaw had taxation. Both accounts suggest that logging was held Chinese loggers hostage in Burma until the becoming less profitable. Local people told Global companies paid ransoms of approximately 10,000 yuan Witness that both the KIO and the SPDC controlled the ($1200) per person.327 forests and border crossing.327 19.5.3.3 Hong Bom He 19.5.3.5 Xima Hong Bom He Town is situated on the Hong Bom There was no indication that the small town of Xima River inside the Tonbiguan Nature Reserve. The town had anything to do with logging although it is well was built in 1993 after private companies illegally built a connected to the border.327 logging road to the Burmese border ostensibly with the consent of local Chinese authorities.327 The town is 19.5.3.6 Car Zan illegal insofar as it was built after the area was Car Zan is a busy logging town with two large designated a nature reserve. stockpiles of logs and approximately 30 sawmills in In 2000 there were 2,000 people working in the 2001.327 The town has been associated with logging for town and in the forests across the border in Kachin 10 years and is opposite KIO controlled areas.327 Global State, although by early 2001 the town appeared to be Witness investigators saw more than 20 log trucks, each closing down and was effectively working at 20% carrying nine m3 of logs, entering the town in a period capacity or less.327 There was still some log trading of an hour and a half, suggesting that the town is more activity with Chinese logging trucks and stockpiles of important for the timber trade than the number of wood present on the Burmese side of the river. -
RECAP Vol 5, Summer 2018
THE LAI NAWNG HKU ORDEAL “We want to flee, but the military won’t let us. We are short of food, and want to move to a safe place...” a displaced person trapped in Lai Nawng Hku. 2018 APRIL n On April 10 people from Lai Nawng Hku started fleeing from their villages due to the recent increases in fighting between the Tatmadaw and KIA troops. Many of them became trapped in the conflict zone. n On April 16 Lai Nawng Hku villagers, including three seminary students Tu Tu Awng, Residents fleeing armed clashes in the Kachin area. Lana Ja Seng Nan and Photograph: Zau Ring Hpara/AFP/Getty Images Hpakawn Hkawn Lung, were held for three days and were interrogated by Tatmadaw soldiers. On that same day, a local humanitarian group who are on the way to rescue the civilians (approximately 160) who were trapped in the Lai Nawng Hku area were blocked by the Tatmadaw troop stationed at Hpakant. n On April 30 a mass rally, drawing about 5000 participants, was held in Myitkyina to ask for a safe passage of civilians trapped in the conflict zone. The next day about 500 youths participated in peaceful sit-in protests to demand rescue of the Lai Nawng Hku villagers trapped in the conflict zone. Page 1 of 5 No. 5 | Summer 2018 2018 MAY n On the evening of May 3 the Kachin State Chief Minister and the youth protest organizers held a meeting. The youth organizers were of the understanding that the rescue of about 160 trapped Lai Nawng Hku villagers could go ahead. -
Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in Myanmar
United Nations S/2017/1099 Security Council Distr.: General 22 December 2017 Original: English Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Myanmar Summary The present report, submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) and subsequent resolutions, covers the period from 1 February 2013 to 30 June 2017 and is the fourth report on children and armed conflict in Myanmar to be submitted to the Security Council and its Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. The report provides information on grave violations against children in Myanmar and identifies parties to the conflict responsible for such violations. During the reporting period, armed clashes in conflict-affected areas of the country continued to put children at risk and the country task force on monitoring and reporting documented and verified grave violations against children by the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and other parties to the conflict, including all seven armed groups listed in the annual report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict. Grave violations against children increased in some areas owing to military operations and intensified clashes in several areas of the country, notably in Shan, Kachin and Rakhine States. Following the signing of a Joint Action Plan to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children by the Tatmadaw between the Government of Myanmar and the United Nations in June 2012, more than 849 children were released from the ranks of the Myanmar Armed Forces. Progress towards the implementation of the Joint Action Plan resulted in an annual decrease in the number of verified child recruitment cases. -
Recent Arrests List
ARRESTS No. Name Sex Position Date of Arrest Section of Law Plaintiff Current Condition Address Remark Myanmar Military Seizes Power and Senior NLD leaders including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and S: 8 of the Export and President U Win Myint were detained. The NLD’s Import Law and S: 25 Superintendent Kyi 1 (Daw) Aung San Suu Kyi F State Counsellor (Chairman of NLD) 1-Feb-21 House Arrest Nay Pyi Taw chief ministers and ministers in the states and of the Natural Disaster Lin of Special Branch regions were also detained. Management law Myanmar Military Seizes Power and Senior NLD leaders including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and S: 25 of the Natural President U Win Myint were detained. The NLD’s Superintendent Myint 2 (U) Win Myint M President (Vice Chairman-1 of NLD) 1-Feb-21 Disaster Management House Arrest Nay Pyi Taw chief ministers and ministers in the states and Naing law regions were also detained. Myanmar Military Seizes Power and Senior NLD leaders including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint were detained. The NLD’s 3 (U) Henry Van Thio M Vice President 1-Feb-21 House Arrest Nay Pyi Taw chief ministers and ministers in the states and regions were also detained. Myanmar Military Seizes Power and Senior NLD leaders including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Speaker of the Amyotha Hluttaw, the President U Win Myint were detained. The NLD’s 4 (U) Mann Win Khaing Than M upper house of the Myanmar 1-Feb-21 House Arrest Nay Pyi Taw chief ministers and ministers in the states and parliament regions were also detained. -
Kachin State Operational Brief
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME MYANMAR Kachin State Operational Brief OVERVIEW Kachin is the northern State of Myanmar, bordering with the People’s Republic of China in the north and east, Shan State in the south and Sagaing Region and India in the west. The majority of almost 1.7 million people living in Kachin makes a living out of agriculture (mainly rice), followed by mining industries (e.g. jade, gold). Although Kachin State is rich in natural resources, more than 30 years of armed conflict between the central Government and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have impacted the lives and livelihoods of the population. In 2008, WFP opened its Myitkyina sub-office to provide food assistance to the conflict-affected communities in order to rebuild livelihoods and improve their food security and nutritional status through its protracted relief and recovery operation. In mid-2011, when clashes between the central Government and the KIA revolved around the disarmament and integration of the KIA into the border guard force, approximately 100,000 people in Kachin State were displaced. Since then, WFP has been providing life-saving food assistance to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Government-controlled areas (GCA) and areas beyond Government control (NGCA). Since January 2016, WFP has proceeded transition of cash based transfers for relief assistance to IDPs with reliable market access to encourage beneficiaries’ self-reliance. However, in highly remote areas of GCA and NGCA, IDPs are still receiving food assistance. While WFP has regular access to GCA, delivery of food to NGCA was carried out from 2012-2014 through international humanitarian cross -line missions when access was granted. -
People Are to Safeguard Myanmar Society Realizing Value of the Union
Established 1914 Volume XII, Number265 8th Waxing of Pyatho 1367 ME Friday, 6 January 2006 Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community peace * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round * Uplift of the morale and morality of and tranquillity, prevalence of law and development of other sectors of the economy as well the entire nation * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic order * Uplift of national prestige and integ- system * National reconsolidation rity and preservation and safeguard- * Development of the economy inviting participation in * Emergence of a new enduring State ing of cultural heritage and national terms of technical know-how and investments from character Constitution sources inside the country and abroad * Building of a new modern developed * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept * Uplift of health, fitness and education nation in accord with the new State in the hands of the State and the national peoples Constitution standards of the entire nation People are to safeguard Myanmar society realizing value of the Union, unity, peace and sovereignty Political, economic, organizational and administrative outlooks, national characters and Union Spirit are strengths that can build the nation Myanmar Affairs and International Studies Course No 10 concludes YANGON, 5 Jan—The address by member of In his address, Prime and the people while en- Myanmar Affairs and USDA Central Panel of Minister General Soe gaged in management and International Studies Patrons Prime Minister Win said that the USDA organization works and Course No 10 of the General Soe Win. -
63Rd Anniversary Union Day to Be Celebrated on a Grand Scale
Established 1914 Volume XVII, Number 279 6th Waxing of Tabodwe 1371 ME Wednesday, 20 January, 2010 Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community peace * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel- * Uplift of the morale and morality of the and tranquillity, prevalence of law and opment of other sectors of the economy as well entire nation order * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system * Uplift of national prestige and integrity and * National reconsolidation * Development of the economy inviting participation in terms preservation and safeguarding of cultural * Emergence of a new enduring State Con- of technical know-how and investments from sources inside heritage and national character stitution the country and abroad * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit * Building of a new modern developed nation * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in * Uplift of health, fitness and education in accord with the new State Constitution the hands of the State and the national peoples standards of the entire nation 63rd Anniversary 63rd Anniversary Union Day to be celebrated Union Day Objectives — For all national races to uphold the on a grand scale national policy—non-disintegration of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity, and perpetuation NAY P YI T AW, 19 Jan—A meeting took place at the ballot the State Peace and Development Council Office 5. For all national races to make concerted efforts of sovereignty here this afternoon to coordinate holding of the 63rd for successful accomplishment of the seven- — To boost the sense of Union Spirit of Anniversary Union Day (2010). -
Burma Briefer
Λ L T S E Λ N B U R M A BN 2014/2003: Edited September 19, 2014 DEVELOPMENTS AFTER THE 2013 UNGA RESOLUTION The Burmese authorities have failed to implement most of the recommendations from previous United Nations General INSIDE Assembly (UNGA) resolutions, in particular Resolution 1 2015 ELECTIONS 68/242, adopted in 2013. In some areas, the situation has 2 MEDIA FREEDOMS RESTRICTED deteriorated as a result of deliberate actions by the 3 ARBITRARY HRD ARRESTS authorities. This briefer summarizes developments on the 4 OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ground with direct reference to key paragraphs of the 4 Torture and sexual violence resolution. 5 Land confiscation 5 WAR AND PEACE TALKS The authorities have either failed or refused to protect 6 PERSECUTION OF ROHINGYA vulnerable populations from serious human rights violations, 6 Discriminatory legislation or pursued essential legislative and institutional reforms, effectively blocking Burma’s progress towards genuine 6 Pre-existing laws and policies democracy and national reconciliation. This has been partly 7 Failure to respond to communal violence due to an assumption that the UNGA resolution will either be 7 Hate speech and incitement to violence canceled or severely watered down as a trade-off for smaller 7 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE EXCLUDED concessions. FROM CENSUS 8 SITUATION DIRE IN ARAKAN STATE So far, 2014 has been marred by an overall climate of APPENDICES impunity that has seen a resurgence of media repression, the ongoing sentencing of human rights defenders, an increase in a1 I: 158 new arrests and imprisonments the number of land ownership disputes, and ongoing attacks a14 II: Contradictory ceasefire talks on civilians by the Tatmadaw in Kachin and Shan States a15 III: 122 clashes in Kachin, Shan States amid nationwide ceasefire negotiations. -
Under Detention List English (13-Apr-2021)
No Name Sex /Age Father's Name Position Date of Arrest Section of Law Plaintiff Current Condition Address Remark Myanmar Military Seizes Power and Senior NLD leaders including Daw Superintendent Kyi Lin S: 8 of the Export and Aung San Suu Kyi and President U of Special Branch, Import Law and S: 25 Win Myint were detained. The NLD’s Dekkhina District of the Natural Disaster chief ministers and ministers in the Administrator (S: 8 Management law, states and regions were also detained. and 67), Penal Code - 505(B), S: Detained State Counselor Aung San (Daw) Aung San Suu State Counsellor Superintendent Myint 1 F General Aung San 1-Feb-21 67 of the House Arrest Naypyitaw Suu Kyi has been charged in Rangoon Kyi (Chairman of NLD) Naing (S: 25), U Soe Telecommunications on March 25 under Section 3 of the Soe Shwe (S: 505 –b), Law, Official Secret Act Official Secrets Act. Besides, she has Superintendent Aung S:31-c, the Natural been charged under the Natural Myo Lwin (S: 31-c), U Disaster Management Disaster Management Law on 12- Nyi Nyi (aka) U Tun Law April-2021 Myint Aung Myanmar Military Seizes Power and S: 25 of the Natural Senior NLD leaders including Daw Disaster Management Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Superintendent Myint President (Vice law, Penal Code - Win Myint were detained. The NLD’s 2 (U) Win Myint M U Tun Kyin 1-Feb-21 Naing, Dekkhina House Arrest Naypyitaw Chairman-1 of NLD) 505(B), S: 67 of the chief ministers and ministers in the District Administrator Telecommunications states and regions were also detained.