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Elderly man, child killed as Myanmar junta launches mortar shells at Rakhine State village

November 7, 2022/in News

The military is using combat drones and heavy weapons in intensifying attacks on villages in Kyauktaw Township, the Arakan Army says An elderly man and a child were killed during indiscriminate shelling by the Myanmar military on Friday morning in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, according to locals. They said that the heavy artillery fire was […]

Political prisoner hospitalised after beating by criminal convicts

November 4, 2022/in News

The victim was also severely beaten by prison authorities after taking part in a Silent Strike protest in Insein Prison late last year A political prisoner being held in Yangon’s Insein Prison had to have his jaw wired shut after it was shattered during a beating by criminal convicts, according to a prison source. The […]

Elderly man, child killed as Myanmar junta launches mortar shells at Rakhine State village

November 7, 2022/in News

Political prisoner hospitalised after beating by criminal convicts

November 4, 2022/in News

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Elderly man, child killed as Myanmar junta launches mortar shells at Rakhine State village

November 7, 2022/in News

The military is using combat drones and heavy weapons in intensifying attacks on villages in Kyauktaw Township, the Arakan Army says

An elderly man and a child were killed during indiscriminate shelling by the Myanmar military on Friday morning in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, according to locals.

They said that the heavy artillery fire was an act of retaliation in response to the Arakan Army’s (AA) ambush of two junta vessels on the Kaladan River at 9am.

The ethnic armed organisation reportedly intercepted the boats around two miles outside of Kyauktaw town. Nearby military bases then began firing heavy and light weapons into the surrounding villages along the Kaladan, residents told Myanmar Now.

Some five mortars exploded in Shwe Pyi, a village six miles northeast of the town, a local said. Maung Tu Chay, 86, and an eight-year-old boy named Aung Min Naing were killed in blasts.

“The elderly man died soon after he arrived at a hospital and the child was killed when more shells hit,” said the resident, who described the shelling as unprovoked, and insisted that no fighting had taken place near his village.

Other civilians were said to have been injured in the attack, and at least one house damaged.

“We don’t dare to go outside the village and look around. We are hiding in bunkers now,” another villager told Myanmar Now by phone on Friday afternoon.

In Kyauktaw town, schools and businesses closed due to the weapons fire, residents said.
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Fragments of bombs seen after a junta drone strike in Tanintharyi Region’s Palaw Township on October 13 (Photo: Palaw K-PDF)

On Monday night, the Kyauktaw-based Military Operations Command (MOC) No. 9 also fired artillery into the area that killed a family of three, according to locals.

A Tuesday statement by the AA that the MOC and Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 374 had used heavy artillery and drones to in attacks on the township on October 28.

The following morning, AA troops clashed with those from the junta’s forces for around 20 minutes near Yoke Thar village, allegedly causing five Myanmar Army casualties. The AA said that the military then dropped bombs on the area at 2pm using drones, damaging a monastery.

Drone strikes were also reportedly carried out in Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships in January, the AA said, noting that the military’s use of the devices in Rakhine State dates back to intense periods of fighting in 2020. The group confiscated an Israeli-made Skylark I-LEX combat drone in Rathedaung in June of that year.

Other ethnic armed organisations, including the Karen National Union, have accused the Myanmar army of surveilling their bases in southeastern Myanmar with drones since 2018; drones were also seen flying over internally displaced persons camps in territory controlled by the Restoration Council of Shan State in 2020.

A military council spokesperson confirmed the armed forces’ use of the devices at a press conference on January 23.
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AA members hold an Israeli-made Skylark I-LEX combat drone confiscated in Rathedaung Township in June 2020 (Arakan Army)

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Political prisoner hospitalised after beating by criminal convicts

November 4, 2022/in News

The victim was also severely beaten by prison authorities after taking part in a Silent Strike protest in Insein Prison late last year

A political prisoner being held in Yangon’s Insein Prison had to have his jaw wired shut after it was shattered during a beating by criminal convicts, according to a prison source.

The prisoner, Hlaing Nyi (also known as Kyaw Thut Myint), is still being treated at the prison hospital for his injuries, said the source, who was unable to say when the incident occurred.

Hlaing Nyi, who has been in regime custody since his arrest on March 27, 2021, for allegedly attacking junta personnel with a bomb, reportedly got involved in a dispute with another inmate while they were hanging their clothes out to dry.

To resolve the issue, he went to another prisoner regarded as the leader of the prison’s criminal convicts. After he was accused of being disrespectful towards this individual, a number of prisoners started punching and kicking him, the source said.
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Hlaing Nyi, right, seen in a military report about his arrest on March 27, 2021

Hlaing Nyi was then moved to another cell, and only later—after several of his friends said that he was complaining of dizziness and disorientation—was he admitted to the prison hospital, said the source.

“His mouth is wrapped in wires now, so he can’t eat solid food. He has to rely on fluids,” said the source, who added that Hlaing Nyi was expected to remain in this condition for around 45 days.

Hlaing Nyi was also one of 89 Insein prisoners who were brutally beaten for taking part in a Silent Strike protest against military rule in late 2021.

Late last month, prison authorities also cracked down on 21 prisoners who offered alms in memory of four activists executed in July.

All of the prisoners were tortured, and their four leaders—Ye Yint Ko, Ye Yint Bo, Wa Thone San and Han Thar—were placed in solitary confinement and forced to do hard labour, sources told Myanmar Now.

The situation inside Insein Prison has been tense since October 19, when an explosionthere killed eight people, including prison officers and the relatives of prisoners.

On Monday, prison authorities lifted a ban on sending packages to inmates imposed in the wake of that attack, but relatives of prisoners say that strict new security measures remain in place.

In addition to having to present household registration papers and other documents before being allowed into the prison compound with parcels of food, medicine or books for prisoners, family members must now go through a second round of examinations once they get inside, relatives said.

On Thursday, hundreds of people were seen waiting outside the prison in the rain due to delays caused by the new rules, residents of the area told Myanmar Now.

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