1. This History Thread is about a few of Myanmar's murdered & missing women. Rest in Power: Myat Thet Thet Khine who stood against dictatorship Feb. 9 2021. 1 of thousands of women killed by/for Burma/Myanmar military & business interests. This must end. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

2. September 19, 1988 Win Maw Oo bled to death, one of many female students & other women who were killed by Burma military suppressing 1988 uprising, suffocated, shot, drowned (Red Bridge Incident.) https://apnews.com/article/dfc91ecc9cdd4da3a6889b4a5de35aab

3. September 2004: This data from “Unsafe State: State-sanctioned Sexual Violence Against Chin Women in Burma” 2007 report by Women's League of Chinland is one of countless murders of women by Burma/Myanmar military documented by NGOs & INGOs for decades. https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs4/UnsafeState.pdf

4. October 2011, Sumlut Roi Ja, a Kachin farmer & mother was taken captive by Myanmar Tatmadaw Light Infantry Battalion 321 and disappeared. Missing, presumed dead. https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/finding-roi-ja/

5. January 2015, Maran Lu Ra and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin Kachin volunteer teachers murdered in Kaung Kha Village, Kutkai Township, Shan State, Myanmar. Tatmadaw Infantry Battalion 503 in village but never charged, case “unsolved.” https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/four-years-justice-yet-found-kachin-teachers-raped-murdered.html

6. August 2016, Raysuana, a Rohingya woman found dead in a Myanmar military camp, Sittwe, Rakhine St. From later in 2016 through 2017 thousands of Rohingya women were killed in genocidal campaign by Myanmar military & allied groups. https://www.mmtimes.com/national-news/22712-from-a-violent-beginning-to-a-violent-end-the-story-of-a-rohingya-woman-called-raysuana.html

7. November 2016, murdered: “Eh Paw Tel” (Chit Pandaing), Karen ethnic environmental defender. “A strong advocate against human right violations, land confiscation & the negative impacts of mining in [SE Myanmar] The murder case is linked to [her] work.” https://hrdmemorial.org/hrdrecord/naw-chit-pandaing/

8. July 2018, 6 female medics of Ta’ang National Liberation Army killed after being captured by Tatmadaw 88th Light Infantry Division in Myanmar’s Shan State. https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/conflict-conscription-and-a-cover-up-the-killing-of-six-tnla-medics/

9. February 2019, Ye Ye Soe, 18 year old Rakhine villager, Rathedaung township, killed by “indiscriminate firing upon them by national [Myanmar military] troops.” https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/rakhine-villagers-hold-funeral-02222019165912.html

10/10. Know their stories. They were more than their murders & so much more than the murderers. Myanmar, there will be songs, poems, gardens. This thread also in honor of all those whose stories we will never know. Other History Threads: http://www.projectmaje.org  #TroopWithdrawal