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Junta troops kill 12, burn hundreds of homes in 11 days of raids in Sagaing

September 2, 2022/in News

Sources said 20,000 residents from 80 villages fled their homes amid the attacks. Junta troops in Myanmar’s Sagaing region have killed at least 12 civilians and burned down more than 500 houses in 11 days since entering the region’s northern townships of Kawlin, Kanbalu and Kyunhla, villagers and local defense groups said Friday. Sources in […]

Myanmar army shelling kills two, injures three in Bago Region

August 31, 2022/in News

According to the KNU, more than 300,000 civilians have been displaced by conflict within its territory Shelling by Myanmar’s military killed two people and injured three others—including two children—in a village in Bago Region’s Shwegyin Township on Tuesday, according to resistance sources. The incident occurred early in the morning, soon after Karen National Liberation Army […]

Junta troops kill 12, burn hundreds of homes in 11 days of raids in Sagaing

September 2, 2022/in News

Myanmar army shelling kills two, injures three in Bago Region

August 31, 2022/in News

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Junta troops kill 12, burn hundreds of homes in 11 days of raids in Sagaing

September 2, 2022/in News

Sources said 20,000 residents from 80 villages fled their homes amid the attacks.

Junta troops in Myanmar’s Sagaing region have killed at least 12 civilians and burned down more than 500 houses in 11 days since entering the region’s northern townships of Kawlin, Kanbalu and Kyunhla, villagers and local defense groups said Friday.

Sources in the area told RFA Burmese that the military had set nearly 50 villages alight since Aug. 22, forcing more than 20,000 residents from 80 villages in the area to flee their homes for safety.

Nay Zin Lat, the former National League for Democracy (NLD) representative for Kanbalu township, said a dozen people had been killed over the past 11 days and that three villages in Kyunhla township were set on fire on Thursday alone.

“Kyunhla township’s Hmaw Tone village is still burning today,” he said.

“Eight unidentified bodies were found on Aug. 23 near [Kyunhla’s] Tei Pin Seik village. They might have been burned to death or killed by heavy weapons. We cannot confirm anything yet.”

Nay Zin Lat said three fighter jets fired at Kawlin township’s Thit Seint Kone village at around 11:20 p.m. the same day, adding that “five villagers were hit and only one survived.”

The Kawlin Revolution Group, an anti-junta paramilitary organization, told RFA that four people were killed in the attack, including six-year-old Pyisone, Moe Aung, Zin Myo Tun, and his nine-months pregnant wife, Phyu Zar Win.

RFA tried to contact family members of the victims but was unable to reach them because the phone lines were cut.

Local anti-junta People’s Defense Force (PDF) groups announced that more than 40 enemy troops were killed in a skirmish between the PDF and the military near the border of Kanbalu and Kawlin townships on Aug. 22-23, and that three officers and a cache of ammunition were captured.

A resident of Aung Chan Thar village told RFA that junta troops started burning his and other villages in Kawlin township as they passed through the next day.

“The troops that were airdropped into the area set fire to our village. The fighting took place on Aug. 22 and they started burning the village on the 23rd,” the resident said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“There used to be 75 houses in our village. They set fire to almost every village they entered. All those from our village are on the run and are depending on food donated by people nearby. But when it rains, life is miserable and we don’t have any food or medicine.”

A munition fragment from a Myanmar military jet lies on the ground in Kawlin township, Sagaing region, Aug. 24, 2022. Credit: Kawlin Revolution-KR

500 homes burned

Sources told RFA that more than 500 houses have been burned since Aug. 22, including 75 from Kawlin township’s Aung Chan Thar village, as well as 59 from Kone See village, two from Tei Pin Seik village, 95 from Ein Chay village, 17 from Inn Yar village, and 53 from Ywar Koe Gyi village — all in Kyunhla township. They said at least 220 houses were torched in three other villages as well, without providing details.

“Even my pucca (brick) building has turned to ashes. All 95 of the houses have been destroyed,” said a villager from Ein Chay, who also declined to be named, fearing reprisal.

“Right now, we don’t dare to stay [in the village] and we don’t have a place to live. All the villagers have fled. When it rains, everyone has a difficult time.”

Other sources said the military had cut off internet access in Kawlin and Kanbalu townships and that details of the arson attacks remain unknown.

A member of a local armed-resistance unit said junta troops are still stationed in Kyunhla’s Ywar Koe Gyi and Kaing Wun villages and that a nearby area came under attack by air raid on Thursday night.

“The army columns are not leaving. They aren’t going anywhere,” the fighter said.

“Last night, a jet fighter came and fired at some places between their forces and our camp. It was between Ywar Koe Gyi and Kaing Wun villages and there were no casualties.”

RFA contacted the junta’s minister for social affairs in Sagaing, Aye Hlaing, but was unable to reach him on Friday.

The latest offensive in Sagaing came days after an Aug. 17 meeting between junta chief Snr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing and U.N. Special Representative Noeleen Heyzer, during which the former claimed that his forces were not responsible for using arson attacks against villages.

However, Data For Myanmar, a group that monitors the fires nationwide, said on Aug. 29 that a total of 28,434 homes have been burned across the country since the military’s Feb. 1, 2021, coup.

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Myanmar army shelling kills two, injures three in Bago Region

August 31, 2022/in News

According to the KNU, more than 300,000 civilians have been displaced by conflict within its territory

Shelling by Myanmar’s military killed two people and injured three others—including two children—in a village in Bago Region’s Shwegyin Township on Tuesday, according to resistance sources.

The incident occurred early in the morning, soon after Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) forces attacked a junta army base on the Shwegyin-Kyaukkyi road, a member of the Yoma People’s Defence Force (PDF) told Myanmar Now.

After abandoning the base, the regime forces opened fire with heavy artillery, killing a man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s in the village of Than Seik, the Yoma PDF member said.

A three-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy, and another person who had not yet been identified at the time of reporting were injured, he added.

“I heard that one junta soldier was injured in the initial attack, but we haven’t confirmed that yet. As far as I know, there were no KNLA casualties,” he said, adding that the entire population of the village has since fled the area.

Than Seik is located about 20km north of the town of Shwegyin. The area is part of eastern Bago’s Nyaunglebin District, which is KNLA Brigade 3 territory.

According to a person who is assisting displaced civilians, the two injured children were transferred to Yangon General Hospital on Tuesday evening. The boy was said to be in critical condition.

Last Wednesday, the Karen National Union (KNU), the political wing of the KNLA, released a statement saying that there had been a total of 25 clashes in Nyaunglebin in the first two weeks of August. At least 57 junta soldiers were killed in the fighting, the group said.

In addition to using heavy artillery, the military has also carried out airstrikes in the area. Locals have also accused regime troops of abducting villagers and stealing livestock.

According to the KNU, nearly 62,000 civilians have been displaced by recent fighting in Nyaunglebin. The total for all areas under KNU control, including in Mon and Karen (Kayin) states, is more than 300,000, it said.

Earlier this month, the KNU reported that there were more than 150,000 displaced civilians in its territory in Bago Region and Mon State alone.

In the absence of support from international relief agencies, which have not been allowed to operate in much of Myanmar, many local groups have turned to online donations to meet the growing needs of conflict-affected civilians in the country.

Myanmar Now News

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