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Bodies of four civilians found in Sagaing after soldiers burn down two villages

February 14, 2022/in News

Another seven villagers are still missing following the attacks last week Local resistance fighters discovered the bodies of four civilians in a rural area of Sagaing’s Mingin Township last week after junta soldiers and Pyu Saw Htee militiamen burned down two nearby villages. Three of the bodies, one of which had been burned to ashes, […]

13-year-old boy killed by artillery fire in Mindat

February 12, 2022/in News

The boy was hit as he and his family were fleeing an approaching military convoy travelling along the Mindat-Matupi road A 13-year-old boy was killed in Chin State’s Mindat Township on Monday after he was hit by an artillery shell fired by regime forces travelling on the Mindat-Matupi road, according to local resistance sources. The […]

Bodies of four civilians found in Sagaing after soldiers burn down two villages

February 14, 2022/in News

13-year-old boy killed by artillery fire in Mindat

February 12, 2022/in News

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Bodies of four civilians found in Sagaing after soldiers burn down two villages

February 14, 2022/in News

Another seven villagers are still missing following the attacks last week

Local resistance fighters discovered the bodies of four civilians in a rural area of Sagaing’s Mingin Township last week after junta soldiers and Pyu Saw Htee militiamen burned down two nearby villages.

Three of the bodies, one of which had been burned to ashes, were discovered by a stream in Ngar Nandar village, which is close to the neighbouring villages of Mauk Tet and Mote Thar.

The junta’s forces torched most of the 300 houses in Mote Thar and Mauk Tet early on Thursday morning, sparing only around 80 homes that belonged to supporters of the military, a local woman said.

Around 1,000 people have been displaced from the villages and are in need of food supplies, she added.

The raids came a day after local People’s Defence Force (PDF) fighters killed three during an attack on a military outpost in nearby Sana Pyin village. The PDF fighters seized an MA-2 light machine gun and a carbine rifle in the attack.

The four villagers killed by the junta’s forces were identified as Naing Soe Lin, a 21-year-old vegetable seller, as well as three volunteer village guards named Kaung Min San, 18, Than Min Soe, 24, and Naing Zaw, 28.

Naing Soe Lin’s body was found with a bullet hole in the forehead near Mote Thar, which is where he lived.

His wife has gone missing and his house has been burned to the ground, said the local woman, who is a member of the anti-junta People’s Administration Team for Mingin Township.

“We don’t know if Naing Soe Lin’s wife was killed in the fire or abducted by the junta’s forces,” said a 28-year-old villager from Mote Thar.

The other three bodies were found together. Than Min Soe’s body had been burned on a haystack, while the bodies of Kaung Min San and Naing Zaw were found with bullet wounds in their eyes.

Local defence force members made the discovery when they travelled to Mote Thar and Mauk Tet to assess the damage from the fires on Thursday evening.

Photos showed that one of the guards had a kyat-coin wide bullet on his right eye. The other person was seen to have lost all his teeth and his right eye was muddled with blood.

Than Min Soe, who villagers believed was burned to death, leaves behind a four-year-old son. Naing Zaw leaves behind a three-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter.

The villages of Mote Thar and Mauk Tet that were torched

Mote Thar and Mauk Tet were torched by a unit of around 200 soldiers who have been based in the nearby villages of Taung Phyu and Pan Set along with Pyu Saw Htee members.

Seven villagers, including Naing Soe Lin’s wife, are still missing after the attacks.

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The bodies of four civilians were found on the evening of February 10 (Supplied)

The Mingin People’s Administration Team believes the soldiers had help from informants with local knowledge, since they knew which houses belonged to people with military personnel in their families.

Junta information officers did not answer calls seeking comment on the arson attacks and the killings.

Last last month soldiers set fires in three other villages in Mingin–Bin, Western Bin and Onnabote– and used 37 civilians as human shields, including elderly people, breastfeeding mothers and children.

In July last year junta forces in Mingin captured 57 PDF fighters at once with the help of Pyu Saw Htee members.

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13-year-old boy killed by artillery fire in Mindat

February 12, 2022/in News

The boy was hit as he and his family were fleeing an approaching military convoy travelling along the Mindat-Matupi road

A 13-year-old boy was killed in Chin State’s Mindat Township on Monday after he was hit by an artillery shell fired by regime forces travelling on the Mindat-Matupi road, according to local resistance sources.

The victim, eighth-grade student Mg Hung Ki, died while he and his family were trying to flee junta troops approaching their village, the sources said.

“His family’s house was on the side of the road, so they ran down into a valley to hide. That’s when one of the military’s artillery shells hit him,” said Yaw Marn, the spokesperson for the Mindat chapter of the Chinland Defence Force (CDF).

“He died instantly,” he added.

Several houses were also destroyed in the attack, according to the CDF Mindat spokesperson.

The forces that opened fire on the village were part of a convoy of more than 70 military vehicles, including two tanks, that has been going back and forth along the Mindat-Matupi road since early January.

The convoy has faced repeated attacks from resistance forces. At least 20 regime troops were killed as it was returning to Mindat from Matupi in late January, according to Yaw Marn.

“The junta convoy was on its way back from Matupi when it was hit by a series of explosions,” he said, adding that the soldiers retaliated by firing indiscriminately into nearby villages.

“They just blindly opened fire along the way. So many shells fell into villages,” he told Myanmar Now.

It took the convoy 16 days to travel from Matupi to Mindat—a journey that can usually be made in a single day—due to the constant harassment by resistance fighters, he said.

When the convoy finally reached Mindat at around 8pm on Tuesday, troops from Light Infantry Battalion 274 fired heavy artillery in the direction of villages north of the town, according to Yaw Marn.

“It felt like the earth was shaking,” he said, noting that the sound could be heard more than 30km away.

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Mindat villagers flee their homes in late May 2021 (Mindat People’s Administration Team)

Nearly 10,000 civilians have been displaced in Mindat Township due to the fighting, according to local relief groups. Most are said to be experiencing severe shortages of food and medicine.

The military, which cut off internet access in the township several months ago, has also disrupted food supply chains in an effort to bring the area under its control.

The township has been under martial law since May 13.

According to a statement released by the United Nations Secretary General’s country representative for Myanmar on February 7, at least 114 minors between the ages of 3 and 17 have been killed by the military since last year’s coup.

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