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Myanmar Military Regime Bombs Kayah State Capital From the Air

January 10, 2022/in News

Myanmar’s military regime launched air strikes on Loikaw, the capital of Kayah State, on Saturday and Sunday, forcing thousands of local residents to flee their homes. Fierce clashes broke out between resistance groups and junta troops in the town on Friday. Residents of at least three of 13 wards in Loikaw have fled since Saturday […]

Junta troops kill four teens after coming under attack near Tanintharyi village

January 10, 2022/in News

Locals say the four youths—three of whom were minors—were shot at close range shortly after being detained on Friday Soldiers who came under attack from resistance forces in Tanintharyi Region’s Thayetchaung Township on Friday shot and killed four youths suspected of belonging to the People’s Defence Force (PDF), according to local sources. The four victims, […]

Myanmar Military Regime Bombs Kayah State Capital From the Air

January 10, 2022/in News

Junta troops kill four teens after coming under attack near Tanintharyi village

January 10, 2022/in News

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Myanmar Military Regime Bombs Kayah State Capital From the Air

January 10, 2022/in News

Myanmar’s military regime launched air strikes on Loikaw, the capital of Kayah State, on Saturday and Sunday, forcing thousands of local residents to flee their homes.

Fierce clashes broke out between resistance groups and junta troops in the town on Friday. Residents of at least three of 13 wards in Loikaw have fled since Saturday and more are fleeing, according to humanitarian groups helping the displaced people.

“Around 2,000 people were evacuated on Saturday and Sunday. We evacuated them together with the Red Cross Society. Nearly half of the town has fled the fighting. Though the fighting took place in Mong Lone, Pan Kan and Ywa Tan Shae, people from the other parts of the town have also fled out of fear,” a charity worker told The Irrawaddy on Sunday.

People who remain in the town are staying in their homes, and businesses have also closed, he said. While his group is helping to evacuate displaced people to churches, many others have also fled the town on their own, he said.

“People don’t go out because helicopters were hovering. The town is deserted. Those who were not able to flee in time remain in their homes. But we are evacuating people at their request. We pick them up at their homes when they phone us,” he added.

Six civilians were killed in Friday’s fighting as junta troops attacked civilian targets, said the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF). The following day, the regime shelled several wards in Loikaw as junta jets dropped bombs.

Some residents have fled to Shan State, Mandalay, Naypyitaw and other towns, but some are only taking shelter at local churches in Kayah.

Local administrators in Nyaungshwe in southern Shan State at the border of Kayah State have warned locals not to shelter displaced persons from Kayah, and displaced people were also not allowed to enter Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, according to the Shan State-based news agency Shan Herald.

Junta troops and local People’s Defense Force (PDF) members clashed in Loikaw, and junta helicopters were hovering over the town on Sunday morning.

“Many people remain in the town, though others are fleeing. We have not yet fled. We have packed things up, and got the car ready to flee. If the situation is OK, we will move tomorrow. But we heard gunfire today, and choppers were hovering,” a resident of Mong Lone ward told The Irrawaddy on Sunday.

More than half of Kayah State’s 300,000 population have already been displaced by fighting following the February coup, and the majority of Loikaw’s some 150,000 residents are fleeing the junta’s weekend aerial attacks, according to locals.

A Loikaw resident told The Irrawaddy on Monday that “the town is deserted and many more, including my family, are planning to leave today and tomorrow.”

Junta attacks from the air were also heard in Demoso, Shardaw and Moebye and Pekhon towns. Helicopters could be heard hovering above Hpasawng Township, said the Loikaw resident.

At least 30 junta soldiers including a lieutenant died and many more were injured in Saturday’s fighting, according to the KNDF. The group said it shot down a gunship and destroyed an armored vehicle in the fighting, and also seized weapons and ammunition from the regime.

Junta troops also clashed with resistance groups in Demoso on Sunday, and at least 10 junta soldiers died in the fighting despite air support.

“Some 20 junta soldiers are believed to have been injured, and at least 10 are thought to have died. The regime fired artillery and also carried out aerial attacks. One of our comrades died and three were injured. One of them had to have one of his kidneys removed. He is stable now,” a KPDF spokesman told The Irrawaddy.

Some civilian houses were damaged in the junta shelling and air strikes and junta troops also deliberately set some houses on fire to cremate their colleagues’ bodies, said the spokesman.

“Junta troops burnt the bodies of their fellows in civilian houses. We have found three charred bodies of junta soldiers,” he said.

The KPDF said it had also seized weapons and communications devices from the regime in the Demoso fighting. The military regime, according to Loikaw residents, has intensified its attacks in Loikaw, deploying helicopters to regain road access to other parts of Kayah State via Loikaw. Resistance groups have blocked road access since last month, preventing the regime from sending reinforcements and food supplies.

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Junta troops kill four teens after coming under attack near Tanintharyi village

January 10, 2022/in News

Locals say the four youths—three of whom were minors—were shot at close range shortly after being detained on Friday

Soldiers who came under attack from resistance forces in Tanintharyi Region’s Thayetchaung Township on Friday shot and killed four youths suspected of belonging to the People’s Defence Force (PDF), according to local sources.

The four victims, who ranged in age from 14 to 19, were returning home from a construction site where they were working when they were detained by soldiers, the sources said.

“They were wrongly accused of being PDF members and shot in the head at close range. They were very scared since they were just kids,” said a local man who spoke to Myanmar Now on condition of anonymity.

The incident reportedly occurred shortly after noon on Friday following clashes that broke out several hours earlier in the village of Kin Shey between resistance forces and members of the pro-military Pyu Saw Htee militia group.

When two military trucks carrying reinforcement troops approached the village from the north at around 11:45am, they came under attack from local resistance fighters using handmade explosives, according to a PDF member.

“The construction workers were going home from work when they ran into the military. They were wrongly accused of having perpetrated the bomb attack,” said the PDF member.

The victims were Khant Zin Htwe, 14, Aung Thet Phyo, 17, Ye Zaw Hteik, 17, and a 19-year-old man who could not be identified at the time of reporting.

According to the PDF member, two middle-aged men were also shot by regime forces and had to be hospitalised.

After the initial attack—which is believed to have injured four junta troops—two more military trucks arrived and soldiers began making arrests, he added.

A local resident told Myanmar Now that the soldiers fired a number of shots as they went through the village interrogating its inhabitants. At least one person was taken away with his hands tied behind his back, he added.

Kin Shey is located about 18 miles northeast of the town of Thayetchaung in Tanintharyi’s Dawei District. Many of those living there have already fled due to security concerns, residents said.

The Pyu Saw Htee group that attempted to enter the village on Friday was accused by locals of beating and detaining a monk and four other civilians, including two women, in the nearby village Saw Phyar in early October.

Local resistance groups, as well as Brigade 4 of the Karen National Liberation Army, have been active in fighting junta forces in Thayetchaung’s Taung Pyauk region since the shadow National Unity Government declared the start of a “resistance war” in September.

According to local media reports, more than 4,000 civilians have been displaced in Tanintharyi’s Dawei, Myeik, Tanintharyi, Yebyu and Palaw townships since the fighting began.

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