These photos tell the real story of Karens in Burma. Compare with Rambo Movie !

These following graphics were copied from Karen Human Rights group home page. Were the scenes from Rambo Movie merely a fiction with exaggeration? After seeing the photos decide by yourself.

Homeless Karen Villagers

Forced Relocation

Open air class for homeless refugees

Burnt and destroyed village

Killing Machines

Beware of Land Mines!

During 2007 the SPDC has deployed Type-69 anti-personal bounding fragmentation landmines as part of its operations in Karen State. While Myanmar Defence Products Industries, a State company, produces the MM1 and MM2 – copies of the Chinese Type-59 and Type-58 respectively – as well as a Claymore-type directional fragmentation mine, there is so far no evidence that it is producing a Type-69 mine. The Type-69 anti-personal landmines which the SPDC is deploying in Karen State, such as the example shown in this photo which was retrieved from Toungoo District, are therefore likely constructed within China and delivered to the SPDC as part of the larger package of military aid.

The base and remaining fins of two separate 120mm mortar shells which SPDC forces fired on villages in Lu Thaw township, Papun District.

Land Mines Victims

The Following Graphics need viewer discretion

The Killings

Since late 2005 – early 2006 the SPDC has led an intensified assault on the civilian communities in the three northernmost districts of Karen State. Through this offensive the Army has sought to finally bring these regions and their indigenous populations under military control. To this end, the Army has applied a widespread shoot-on-sight policy in non-SPDC controlled areas, where civilians are targeted as enemies and killed as such.

Twenty-year-old Naw H— of Saw Thay Der village along the Yaw Loh river in Tantabin township, southern Toungoo District shown here on March 21st 2007 severely injured by SPDC mortar fire. Naw H— had been about to return home from Wa Doh Koh village which lies just under four kilometres to the north. While waiting at Wa Doh Koh village, SPDC soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) #501 began shelling the village with high powered mortars. The exploding shells flung shrapnel into Naw H—‘s legs, shoulders and head. Despite the severity of her injuries she survived the attack

The corpse of forty-year-old Saw T’Roh Htaw of Dtay Thoo Der village murdered by soldiers from SPDC Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) #501 as he was travelling along a dirt road at Bpla Day in Lu Thaw township. In 2006, SPDC forces operating in the area had destroyed the houses and fields of Saw T’Roh Htaw as well as villagers Saw Yeh Gay Baw and Saw Htah Loo. The SPDC’s strategy of crop destruction aims to eliminate the civilian presence in non-SPDC-controlled areas of Lu Thaw township by creating severe food shortages.

Myanmar Army

A Myanmar Soldier in action

A soldier from a patrol of Light Infantry Battalion #4; Light Infantry Division #44 shown here loiters at Hs— village, Papun District on August 4th 2007.

These photos show the SPDC Army camp at Ker Weh, Than Daung township, northern Toungoo District as seen in February 2007. At the time these photos were taken the camp was occupied by troops from SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #373, Tactical Operations Command #663 of Military Operations Command #5 under the command of Kyaw Soe. Notice the double row of split bamboo fencing encircling the camp. Villagers are regularly forced to build such fences at SPDC camps and bases throughout Karen State.

A Group of fleeing Karens

These photos are real authentic photos copied from Karen Human Rights Group homepage

http://www.khrg.org/index.php.

After seeing all these real photos Are you still thinking that Rambo Movie is Just a Fiction without real content and message ?

(This blogger has intentionally omitted more violent real life photos from the original source as it may become more violent than scenes from latest Rambo movie)

This blogger would like to share the part of a poem by Ma Thadar with Burmese Readers,

ရမ္ဘို မၾကည့္ရ။
DVD ေတြ လိုက္ဖမ္း။
လူေတြ ၾကား၊ လိုက္ေထာက္လွမ္း
စေလာင္းေတြ. ၾကည့္မရစတမ္း
နိုင္ငံေရးဘေလာ့ေတြ ဘမ္း
အင္တာနက္စပိ ေတြ လိပ္ေျခလွမ္း လွမ္း

ခင္ဗ်ားတို ့ ပိတ္လည္း..က်မတို ့မေၾကာက္။
လူဆိုတာ..ပိတ္ေလေလ.ပိုေဖါက္္ခ်င္ေလ။
ဘမ္းေလေလ..ဖရီးဒမ္းနဲ ့တံခါးေခါက္။
အေရာက္ လာဖတ္ဆဲ။
ေသြးမနည္းတဲ့ ခေလးေတြ
မီဒီယာဟာ ေရစီးေၾကာင္း။
ေျမာင္းပိတ္ေလ.ပိုပိုလွ်ံ
အရွိန္ျပင္းတဲ့ ေရစီးမာန္
ေရကာတာနဲ ့ပိတ္ေတာင္..မခံ။
မတရားတာဆို..ဘယ္သူမွလက္မခံ.ေတာ္လွန္။

To read the full text

http://thadar.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_04.html

Sit Mone

The Truth Will Prevail, the Rot Will Surface: Rambo and Burma

Famous Burmese proverb “The Truth Will Prevail. The Rot will surface” struck this blogger’s mind after watching the movie “Rambo” in which Sylvester Stallone went into Burma with his motto: “Live for nothing, or die for something”

Sorry for Myanmar Tat Ma Daw (Burmese Armed Forces), once famous as one of the regions toughest armies have been downgraded into a merciless immoral army that tortured and killed the innocents rather than preventing and protecting it’s people in the eyes of movie goers all over the world. Most of the scenes in this movie in-fact, reflected the actual conducts of current Burmese Army against it’s people.

However, to be fair to Burmese Army, there are some groups of patriotic soldiers who really cherished the country and its people are still within the army staying low profile.

This blogger feels that these groups may be even more than the evil forces. Perhaps, for them, this is the bad time, as their superior Generals over the Throne will be actively doing the surveillance for any signs of possible rebellion within the Army.

This blogger could understand the feeling of these good soldiers as they are blamed for the conducts of a handful of Generals whose ambition is just to stay in the power.

I feel sorry for the Burmese Army, founded by General Aung San ( Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s father), that was born together with the Burmese Independence, seems to be sinking together with the Evil Generals into the abyss of the Sea Of Sin.

Sit Mone