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Boy shot dead during junta raid on Mingin Township village

January 15, 2022/in News

The victim was killed on his 10th birthday, according to his aunt Regime forces shot and killed a 10-year-old boy during a raid on a village in Sagaing Region’s Mingin Township on Wednesday, according to a relative of the victim. The incident occurred after roughly 30 junta troops entered the village of Za Na Hpyin […]

NUG Accuses Myanmar Junta of Committing Crimes Against Humanity

January 14, 2022/in News

Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) has accused the military junta of committing crimes against humanity, citing its artillery strikes and air raids on civilians. Many civilians were killed and injured and thousands were displaced by junta attacks using jet fighters and helicopters in Kachin, Karen, Kayah, Chin and Shan states and Sagaing and Magwe […]

Boy shot dead during junta raid on Mingin Township village

January 15, 2022/in News

NUG Accuses Myanmar Junta of Committing Crimes Against Humanity

January 14, 2022/in News

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Boy shot dead during junta raid on Mingin Township village

January 15, 2022/in News

The victim was killed on his 10th birthday, according to his aunt

Regime forces shot and killed a 10-year-old boy during a raid on a village in Sagaing Region’s Mingin Township on Wednesday, according to a relative of the victim.

The incident occurred after roughly 30 junta troops entered the village of Za Na Hpyin at around 5:30am and ordered residents of the boy’s home to come out, his aunt told Myanmar Now.

“He had just opened the door and stepped out of the house when they shot him in the neck. He died on the spot,” she said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“It was his 10th birthday. His mother has been crying so much, it’s like she’s gone mad,” she added.

Bala, the boy who was shot, was the second son of Za Na Hpyin residents Kyaw Swe and Cho Pyone. After the shooting, the parents, along with a seven-year-old girl, were moved with the rest of the village’s inhabitants to a holding area, according to the aunt.

“They had to leave the body behind when they were taken to the football field with everyone else. All they could do was cry,” she said, adding that the entire village was forced to remain in the field until the troops left the next day.

According to the aunt, no photos were taken because every phone in the village was confiscated during the raid.

“There were no phones left in the village, so we couldn’t take any photos of the boy,” she said.

Myanmar Now was unable to reach the parents of the victim or other witnesses to the shooting, some of whom have since fled the village. Officers at Mingin’s central police station refused to comment when contacted.

Other residents said the group that raided the village on Wednesday included members of the military-backed Pyu Saw Htee militia.

Za Na Hpyin, a village of around 140 households, was previously targeted by junta forces and the Pyu Saw Htee in October, according to residents. Several motorcycles and other property were destroyed during that raid, they said.

Troops stationed in Mingin Township have been accused of multiple attacks on local residents.

In August, drunken soldiers shot and killed a man at a Chindwin River ferry port in Mingin after taunting him for not wearing a mask, according to witnesses.

The Pyu Saw Htee, which has a strong presence in the area, has also been involved in a number of other incidents, including one in July that resulted in the arrest of more than 50 members of a local People’s Defence Force (PDF) group.

PDF members say the Pyu Saw Htee used children as part of a ruse to capture the anti-regime fighters, four of whom were reportedly shot after falling into the trap.

According to residents, the Pyu Saw Htee is especially strong in two villages in the area, Panset and Taung Phyu.

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NUG Accuses Myanmar Junta of Committing Crimes Against Humanity

January 14, 2022/in News

Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) has accused the military junta of committing crimes against humanity, citing its artillery strikes and air raids on civilians.

Many civilians were killed and injured and thousands were displaced by junta attacks using jet fighters and helicopters in Kachin, Karen, Kayah, Chin and Shan states and Sagaing and Magwe regions, and junta soldiers have committed mass killings, torched houses and used civilians as human shields, the NUG statement said on Thursday.

Its attacks violate international norms, ethics and laws created to protect humanity, said the NUG.

Hospitals and pharmacies were damaged by junta bombing in areas controlled by the Karen National Union in Hpapun District, Karen State, on Jan. 12.

This followed junta air raids on Kayah State’s capital, Loikaw, which displaced thousands of civilians. In December, Lay Kay Kaw, a new town in Karen State near the Thai border, was left almost deserted after aerial attacks.

On Friday, two junta helicopters attacked Lay Kay Kaw, close to areas where displaced people are sheltering beside the Moei River on the Thai border.

Ongoing airstrikes are also causing serious destruction in Sagaing Region.

The NUG’s shadow health ministry, citing international agency reports, said the regime killed 32 health workers and detained 288 others and raided 355 health care centers, including hospitals and clinics, between Feb. 1 and Nov. 30 last year.

Medics were the first profession to take to the streets against last year’s coup and formed the civil disobedience movement to strike against military rule. The regime responded by detaining and prosecuting striking medics.

The regime is ridiculing the Geneva Convention, United Nations Security Council and domestic and international laws with its continuing violence against Myanmar’s people, said the parallel ministry, asking the international community to take action.

The NUG said it has been trying to provide humanitarian assistance to the displaced and take measures to hold the regime to account under international law for its atrocities.

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