A/HRC/39/CRP.2 hide when they see or hear planes. 816 Other victims are no longer able to work to sustain a livelihood.817 For instance, a tea plantation farmer explained that she can no longer work on her plantation after she was injured from shrapnel and bullet wounds on her leg and arm during a Tatmadaw attack in northern Shan State on 2 May 2017. She remained hospitalised for several weeks and she can hardly move. Her husband has since become a monk and her only income is from the work undertaken by her children. Their house was also destroyed during the attack and they now live in a rented home. 818 A torture victim shared that since an incident in northern Shan State in August 2017, and because of injuries inflicted by Tatmadaw soldiers, he can no longer work and sustain his family: “The Tatmadaw soldiers tortured me and destroyed my life”.819 Other torture and ill-treatment victims have stated that they suffer from severe trauma, cognitive dysfunction, and other mental and physical consequences that require medical care.820 376. Many victims reported that it had been extremely challenging to obtain medical services to treat their injuries, and some have felt compelled to travel to China to seek medical attention.821 Victims have also reportedly died because of the lack of timely medical care. 822 For example, a victim from the Monekoe area in Shan State reported that on 15 January 2016 a mortar shell exploded in her compound, close to a main road, causing injuries to herself and her daughter: The shell pieces are still in our bodies. My daughter is not normal now. She doesn’t respond to me sometimes. When I was in the hospital, doctors didn’t take the shell pieces out of my body because it was too risky. Doctors said it might harm the baby as I was already 8 months pregnant then. I had to have a surgery to deliver my baby because my whole body was swollen.823 377. Victims and witnesses’ accounts indicate the Tatmadaw frequently went to the villages of individuals who had escaped detention or forced labour looking for them, 824 and in some cases beat family members of the escaped individual. 825 For example, one victim from Myitkyina, Kachin State, who was arrested and detained overnight in 2012 and whose brother was killed by the Tatmadaw during this detention, reported that after he escaped detention and fled the country, the Tatmadaw went to his village to look for him. His parents and siblings were afraid to stay in the village so they fled to an IDP camp. 826Another victim from Myitkyina, Kachin State reported how, as retaliation for her escape after several months of forced labour in 2012, her house was destroyed and her mother beaten, and made to undertake forced labour for the Tatmadaw. 827 378. An estimated 97,000 people in Kachin and 9,000 people in Shan remain in displacement camps or camp-like situations, many in overcrowded conditions with inadequate shelters, which are in urgent need of repair and provide little privacy. Many of them have been displaced for extended periods of up to seven years. Displaced peoples, particularly in non-government controlled areas, have told the Mission that the quality of education afforded in camps is poor and not recognized by the authorities to attain higher education.828 Meeting food needs is, in the words of one local organization working in these camps “a constant struggle”, with limited food rations and a rate of chronic malnutrition well above the national average.829 Access to health care remains limited, and psycho-social 816 817 818 819 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 92 PI-103. PI-042, PI-046, PI-072. PI-073. PI-035. PI-021, PI-035, PI-115. PI-029, PI-055, PI-065, DI-057. DI-070, PI-105. PI-115. PI-066, PI-067, PI-077, PI-078. PI-007, PI-068. PI-062. PI-068. PI-087, QM-014. PI-056.