Two teenaged Karen women, one eight-months pregnant and the other a young mother, have been raped and killed by Burma Army soldiers in Kwee Law Ploh, near Ler Per Her IDP camp.

Villagers continue to flee and thousands remain displaced as attacks intensify against Karen villagers and resistance in Pa-an District, central Karen State, eastern Burma. Seven mortars fired by the Burma Army and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) landed in Thailand on June 8 and 9 according to reports received by the Free Burma Rangers.

The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, which fights alongside the Burma Army, has threatened to shell Thai villagers if they do not supply food to them in support of their attack on Ler Per Her refugee camp.

Some 3,295 people have fled Ler Per Her camp as Burma Army and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army soldiers started the bombardment of the camp at 11.30am on June 6.

A 15-year-old girl was raped by 12 Burma Army soldiers in Shan State according to information from the PaO National Liberation Organization. The soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion 426, including battalion commander Nyunt Oo, raped the girl on May 14 in an orange grove where she had been working. She is now in Taunggyi hospital.

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In Maungdaw Township, western Arakan State, Burma, over 100 Muslims have fled to Bangladesh, fearing arrest by the SPDC after a clash between Rohingya villagers and Burma Army soldiers. Four soldiers were critically injured by swords in the attack and have been hospitalized.

The Kachin Independence Organization was told at a meeting with the Burma Army on April 28 that it has to transfer its military operations into the Burma Army as part of a border guard force.

The Burma Army continues to oppress people across Burma, with this oppression being the most violent in areas under direct attack. In areas such as Tantabin Township of Toungoo District, where more than 8,000 villagers have been displaced since 2006, the violence is both constant and brutal.

Northern Karen State, Burma: here civil war has torn normal life apart for over 60 years. The sound of mortars is normal and the threat of attack is constant for the people in this part of eastern Burma. But now, on this day, in this village, the war seems far away.