The Thailand-based Paluang Womens Organization, or PWO, condemned the violent sexual attacks committed by Burmese army troops against three Palaung women in a village of southern Shan State in Burma on 9 October, in a statement issued on 25 October, 2006.
The incident occurred outside Wan Pan Village, of Ho Pong Village Tract in the Loi Lem District of Southern Shan State.

The three women were Daw Nan Man, aged 52, Ma Aye Sein, aged 32, and Ma Aye Kyaing, aged 14. All three women were rice cultivators.

Two of the women, Daw Nan Man and Ma Aye Kyaing, escaped from the hands of the Burmese soldiers after being raped, but they suffered several injuries from the attack.

The third woman was left by the soldiers after being gang-raped, and suffered severe injuries.

The PWO said that Ma Aye Sein’s skull had been cracked open, there were 4 stab wounds under her left breast, and three ribs were broken. On 13 October, at Lwe Lin Hospital, she died from her injuries, which had been complicated by delays in getting her to the hospital.

The rapist soldiers are from Light Battalion 9 stationed at Murng Naung base, located in Wan Pan Village of Loi Lem District. They have been identified as Thet Pine, Thet Lwin Oo, Myo Thein, La Min Htwe, Kyaw Soe, and Win Ko.

The statement said that Wan Pan villagers went to the battalion to complain of the incident to commanders, but there has been action taken against the six rapists.

The PWO also calls on the international community to increase pressure on the military regime to implement a nationwide ceasefire, and demanded that the government withdraw their troops that are stationed in the ethnic regions.

On 10 October, three Burmese sailors raped a teenaged Arakanese girl at a naval outpost of Akyab, in Arakan State. The authorities have also not yet taken any action against the three rapists involved in that attack.