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This Incident Report describes events occurring in Dwe Lo Township, Mu Traw District, in December 2024. On December 30th 2024, the State Administration Council (SAC), based in K’Ter Tee camp, shelled six 60 mm mortar rounds into Aa--- village, K’Ter Tee village tract, killing a 21-year-old villager named Saw A---. The next day, on December 31st 2024, the SAC conducted air strikes on Aa--- village, K’Ter Tee village tract, injuring another villager named Saw B---. After the incident, Saw B--- faced challenges to ensure his livelihood because his house was destroyed by the air strikes. Both incidents happened when these two villagers were returning to the village from a nearby displacement site to check their houses and feed their livestock. The villagers from Aa--- village have been displaced from their village since December 1st 2024, due to armed conflict between the SAC and armed resistance groups.[1]
Part 2 - Information Quality
1. Explain in detail how you collected this information.
When I [KHRG researcher] heard the sound of air strikes and shelling, I [KHRG field researcher] was worried about [possible] villagers’ causalities. Then, I [KHRG field researcher] went to Ab--- clinic, in K’Ter Tee village tract, and met with an injured villager named Saw B--- from Aa--- village. I [KHRG field researcher] conducted an interview with Saw B--- about his injury. When I [KHRG field researcher] asked [if there were] any other causalities, he replied that a villager from Aa--- village, named Saw A---, had also been killed on a previous day [December 30th 2024].
2. Explain how the source verified this information.
Saw B--- was in Aa--- village during the incident, and he is the [injured] victim. [The KHRG researcher also verified this information with] Saw C---, [a Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)[6] soldier] who was serving as a security guard nearby Aa--- village, and witnessed [heard] the SAC, based in K’Ter Tee camp, fire six 60 mm mortar rounds into Aa--- village, which killed Saw A---. [Saw C--- heard the firing of mortar shells coming from the direction of the SAC army camp.] [The KHRG researcher also talked to the Ab--- village tract authority, Thara[7] D---.]
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