incident
Civilian death and injury caused by Burma Army artillery attacks in Hpakant Township
An incident is a public claim made by a civil society organization, an international organization, a government, or another source that a violation of human rights was perpetrated by the defense and security forces of a country. Graph analysis can generate linkages based on the dates and locations between these incidents and chains of command.
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Based on 1 claims made by 1 sources, Civilian death and injury caused by Burma Army artillery attacks in Hpakant Township occurred on 2013/1/16.
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| assertion/incident:violation:types | Civilian death and injury caused by Burma Army artillery attacks |
| assertion/incident:violation:descriptions | According to Kachin Women's Association Thailand: "Civilian death and injury caused by Burma Army artillery attacks [...] Heavy fighting spread to the Hpakant jade mining area in western Kachin State in August 2012, causing displacement of around 10,000 people, who took shelter in churches and monasteries around the town. [...] On January 16, 2013, the same Burmese artillery unit at Byuhakone fired mortars at Prayer Hill in Hpakant, causing damage to Mawwan Kachin Baptist Church. Fortunately no ... |
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Inferred Chains of Command to this Incident
Sources establish claims about the chain of command, commanders, the sites and areas of operations of units, and incidents through time. Security Force Monitor organizes these claims into structured data. The linkages in time between these claims time-bound periods are inferred according to the Monitor’s methodology. Individual time-bound chains of command can be generated from this data using graph analysis.
Every chain of command which included Civilian death and injury caused by Burma Army artillery attacks in Hpakant Township is shown below. These chains are disaggregated to show the entire time-range of each chain from the lowest unit in the chain to the highest unit at the top of the chain. Any individual who was part of that chain during the date-range is shown as well.
The chains show any direct or positional incidents which are claimed to have occurred during the time-range. Direct incidents have a source which directly names the unit as a perpetrator. Positional incidents occur when there is an intersection between claims from sources alleging an incident occurred and other sources giving a unit an overlapping location and date-range.
The following chains include Civilian death and injury caused by Burma Army artillery attacks in Hpakant Township. Click on a chain to see our inferred time periods as well as every source used to establish the chain of command.
Areas of Operation of Units in the Location of this Incident
Claims of sites and areas of operation for units through time can be linked according to Security Force Monitor’s methodology. Graph analysis of these linkages establishes the location of units during the time range of the incident.