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Three civilians killed in attack on army truck in Mandalay Region

March 10, 2023/in News

Local resistance forces say they mistakenly believed that the car the victims were driving in was travelling together with the targeted vehicle Resistance forces in Mandalay Region have admitted to inadvertently killing two adults and a six-year-old child during an attack on a military vehicle earlier this week. The incident occurred on the Myingyan-Natogyi road […]

Junta troops and Pyu Saw Htee militia torch villages on Sittaung River

March 10, 2023/in News

A series of arson attacks in Bago Region are believed to have been carried out in retaliation for a drone attack by resistance forces and the killing of a Pyu Saw Htee member’s associate Junta troops and pro-junta militia members burned civilians’ houses, motorcycles and medical supplies this week in several villages in eastern Bago […]

Three civilians killed in attack on army truck in Mandalay Region

March 10, 2023/in News

Junta troops and Pyu Saw Htee militia torch villages on Sittaung River

March 10, 2023/in News

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Three civilians killed in attack on army truck in Mandalay Region

March 10, 2023/in News

Local resistance forces say they mistakenly believed that the car the victims were driving in was travelling together with the targeted vehicle

Resistance forces in Mandalay Region have admitted to inadvertently killing two adults and a six-year-old child during an attack on a military vehicle earlier this week.

The incident occurred on the Myingyan-Natogyi road near the village of Nyaung Pin Thar at around 10pm on Tuesday, when a local defence team opened fire on an army truck with light weapons after ambushing it with explosives.

According to a spokesperson for the group responsible for the attack, the civilian victims were in a white Toyota Passo directly behind the targeted vehicle.

“Their car was following close behind the military truck. We thought they were travelling together with the military, so we fired on them,” he said, adding that the group had no intention of harming members of the public.

He also added that more than one group was involved in the incident, but declined to identify them.

The three civilians who were killed—identified as Than Htike Myo, Nyein Thandar Thin, and six-year-old Shwe Bhone Thit—were among nine people inside the car when it was hit by a barrage of bullets. A man and a woman were also injured.

Junta-controlled state media reported on the incident on Thursday, but made no mention of a military vehicle being attacked.

A local man who spoke to Myanmar Now on condition of anonymity said that regime forces have blocked roads in the area and were conducting security checks around the towns of Myingyan and Natogyi.

Junta authorities have also ordered residents to remain indoors after 8pm and have imposed a ban in Myingyan on having more than one person on a motorcycle, he added.

Resistance groups based in the area have also issued warnings to the public, telling locals to avoid going out at night and urging them to stay away from junta forces.

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Junta troops and Pyu Saw Htee militia torch villages on Sittaung River

March 10, 2023/in News

A series of arson attacks in Bago Region are believed to have been carried out in retaliation for a drone attack by resistance forces and the killing of a Pyu Saw Htee member’s associate

Junta troops and pro-junta militia members burned civilians’ houses, motorcycles and medical supplies this week in several villages in eastern Bago Region, according to local sources.

On Wednesday, the soldiers and members of the Pyu Saw Htee—a militia armed by the military council—targeted the villages of Pu Zun Myaung and Nyaungbingyi, located on the west bank of the Sittaung River in Nyaunglebin and Shwegyin townships, two residents said.

One day earlier, local allied resistance forces had deployed a drone to bomb a junta encampment in Kwin Da La Gyi village near Nyaungbingyi, reportedly killing six soldiers and injuring three others, according to a local man who said he witnessed the incident.

In retaliation, junta troops from Light Infantry Division 77 and Light Infantry Battalion 20 in Bago advanced into Nyaungbingyi early the next day, firing artillery which injured at least 10 civilians, the local man said.
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Artillery shells left behind by junta troops after raiding Nyaungbingyi on March 8 (Supplied)

He explained that the soldiers also set fire to motorcycles and destroyed medical supplies in a local clinic in the village run by health workers from the Civil Disobedience Movement, a nationwide campaign opposing the coup regime.

At the time of reporting, the soldiers had not left Bago, according to the man.

“They have not retreated completely. They were picked up by vehicles coming from Nyaunglebin, but I don’t know where they were dropped off,” he said of the troops’ activities after withdrawing from Nyaungbingyi.
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While the resistance was carrying out the bomb attack on the junta camp, a man named Paw Oo was killed by anti-regime fighters at the home of Myint Oo—a known Pyu Saw Htee member and the junta-appointed administrator of Pu Zun Myaung village in Nyaunglebin. The assassins then burned down the house in question.

Myint Oo was seen the next morning in the company of soldiers who set fire to at least 10 homes in the village, according to a resident.

After two alleged junta informants were killed in Pu Zun Myaung in February, Myanmar army soldiers threatened to torch the village. Troops fired heavy artillery at Pu Zun Myaung and Nyaungbingyi multiple times, causing most of the residents to flee, the resident said, noting that he was one of the few who stayed behind..

“We can’t even go into the village freely in the daytime. They threaten the villagers when they see them,” the local told Myanmar Now. “They say, ‘Why haven’t you fled yet? Have you stayed behind to spy on us for the other side? Do you want to be killed?’ Some villagers who had already left came back to collect their belongings. They were told by junta soldiers that they couldn’t leave the village once they entered.”

The junta troops and their supporters have also looted vacant homes in Pu Zun Myaung, and have even destroyed some houses in neighbouring Shwe Bon Thar, located to the east, the local man added.

Myanmar Now is unable to independently verify the local reports of the incidents.

The military council has released no information on its activities in Bago.

Local resistance fighters have repeatedly carried out drone and sniper attacks on junta troops operating near the banks of the Sittaung River, which remains a critical route for military transport and logistics.

Nyaunglebin District is also considered the territory of Brigade 3 of the Karen National Union, an ethnic armed organisation which has been resisting the Myanmar military for decades.

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