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One civilian killed, village destroyed in repeated Myanmar military raids in upper Sagaing

November 9, 2022/in News

A man with an intellectual disability is found murdered after a junta attack that wiped out most of his Mingin Township village’s remaining homes A junta force raiding villages in Sagaing Region’s Mingin Township reportedly killed a local man on Tuesday amid the assaults on the area, known as Taung Dwin Chaung. That day, the […]

Junta shell kills a woman and injures her husband and baby in Sagaing region

November 8, 2022/in News

Troops stormed another village in the same township the following day, torching houses. A mortar shell fired by junta troops killed a woman and injured two family members when it struck their home in Wetlet township in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, according to a local who declined to be named for safety reasons. The troops fired […]

One civilian killed, village destroyed in repeated Myanmar military raids in upper Sagaing

November 9, 2022/in News

Junta shell kills a woman and injures her husband and baby in Sagaing region

November 8, 2022/in News

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One civilian killed, village destroyed in repeated Myanmar military raids in upper Sagaing

November 9, 2022/in News

A man with an intellectual disability is found murdered after a junta attack that wiped out most of his Mingin Township village’s remaining homes

A junta force raiding villages in Sagaing Region’s Mingin Township reportedly killed a local man on Tuesday amid the assaults on the area, known as Taung Dwin Chaung.

That day, the unit of Myanmar army soldiers and allied Pyu Saw Htee militia members who had been occupying the village of Kyaw targeted Kone Maw, more than one mile away. There, they torched nearly 30 homes and murdered 55-year-old Htay Lin, who had an intellectual disability, according to members of a local anti-junta defence team.

The troops went on to burn 14 more buildings in Kyauk Maw village, one-quarter mile from Kone Maw, including a structure within a primary school compound, the Tawng Dwin People’s Defence Force-Mingin (TDPDF) spokesperson said.

Myint Myat Thu, the group’s information officer, told Myanmar Now that the military column first shot heavy artillery at the community and also looted a number of homes.

“Twelve of the 14 houses in question were reduced to ashes. They then ransacked the village and took everything that was valuable,” he said.

The TDPDF attacked the raiding column with heavy and light weapons at around 2:30pm.

Kone Maw, which once had 100 households, had already been attacked by the junta in June, at which time several homes were torched. The second arson assault on Tuesday resulted in the village being almost completely destroyed, according to locals.

For nearly one year, junta forces have been raiding the Taung Dwin Chaung region, an area of Mingin home to more than 35 villages. During that time, some 30 troops have been consistently present in Kyaw, which has become a base from which the soldiers provide combat training and arms to villagers who joined their militias.

“They also raided nearby villages, stole motorcycles and sold them for money and killed the cows and pigs for food,” the TDPDF’s Myint Myat Thu said. “They also seized rice and oil from the civilians, as well as other property. Five cows were taken just recently—while four of them were released, they kept one.”

The TDPDF has said that it remains outgunned by the military, and at the time of reporting, claimed to be in possession of one assault rifle, a number of daggers, and handmade muskets and mortars.

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Junta shell kills a woman and injures her husband and baby in Sagaing region

November 8, 2022/in News

Troops stormed another village in the same township the following day, torching houses.

A mortar shell fired by junta troops killed a woman and injured two family members when it struck their home in Wetlet township in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, according to a local who declined to be named for safety reasons.

The troops fired heavy artillery at Shein Ma Kar village on Monday night, the resident told RFA.

“Two shells hit the southeast corner of the village and two shells hit the north,” the local said. “When a shell landed on a house near the hospital and the football field, a woman … was hit and died. Her husband was also injured. Half of their child’s face was torn and she lost an eye. Their house also burned down. The shells were fired even though there was no fighting [with local People’s Defense Forces].”

The woman, 33, was identified as Ka China Ma and her husband, also in his thirties, was named as Thaung Myint Oo. The baby girl, aged around one-year-old, had not yet been named by the family.

Locals said that a military column of about 50 soldiers also raided Pi Tauk Chon village near Shein Ma Kar on Tuesday morning, set fire to houses and then returned to Wetlet township. RFA has not been able to verify their claims.

Nearly 6,000 residents from 10 villages in the township fled their homes during nearly four weeks of junta raids on Wetlet last month, according to locals.

The village attacks came as local People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) stormed the Shwe Pan Kone village police station in the western part of Wetlet township. The military fired on them from a helicopter gunship, killing a woman from a nearby village in the process.

It has been a brutal month for people living in Sagaing region. Troops killed four villagers from Monywa township during five days of fighting with PDFs at the start of November, forcing more than 3,000 villagers to flee their homes.

According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)2,420 civilians have been killed by the junta since the Feb., 2021 coup.

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