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59 civil society organizations issue a statement on the massacre of Karenni people by terrorist Myanmar military junta

December 26, 2021/in Press Releases and Statements

December 26, 2021 On December 24, 2021, Light Infantry Battalion 108 under the command of Light Infantry Division 66 of the terrorist military junta which is trying to seize power illegally, launched an offensive clearance operation near Moso Village in the western part of Hpruso Township in Karenni State, and arrested approximately 40 innocent villagers […]

Junta forces attack Kalay township village from land and air

December 25, 2021/in News

After an attack by the resistance on an area military outpost, Myanmar army troops open fire on the village from two helicopters before setting homes ablaze The Myanmar army carried out an airstrike from two helicopters on Natchaung village in Sagaing’s Kalay Township on Thursday afternoon and set homes in the community on fire later […]

59 civil society organizations issue a statement on the massacre of Karenni people by terrorist Myanmar military junta

December 26, 2021/in Press Releases and Statements

Junta forces attack Kalay township village from land and air

December 25, 2021/in News

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59 civil society organizations issue a statement on the massacre of Karenni people by terrorist Myanmar military junta

December 26, 2021/in Press Releases and Statements

December 26, 2021

On December 24, 2021, Light Infantry Battalion 108 under the command of Light Infantry Division 66 of the terrorist military junta which is trying to seize power illegally, launched an offensive clearance operation near Moso Village in the western part of Hpruso Township in Karenni State, and arrested approximately 40 innocent villagers including women and children. They then put them in vehicles while they were handcuffed behind their backs and burned them alive, intentionally committing a massacre. Karenni State Consultative Council (KSCC) has released an emergency statement on these atrocity crimes.

Since May 20, 2021, nearly half of the Karenni population of 150,000 people have been displaced and became internally displaced persons (IDPs) due to brutal human rights violations, including artillery shelling, burning, violent crackdowns, torture, arbitrary arrests and killings by the military junta’s troops in Karenni State. More than 652 houses and buildings have been destroyed, and hundreds of innocent people have been killed.

We, the civil society organizations, strongly condemn the actions that amount to international crimes perpetrated by the military junta in Karenni State and we will stand with Karenni People to get justice. A similar massacre took place at Dontaw Village in Salingyi Township in Sagaing Region on December 7 where 11 innocent civilians were burned to death. Before this, the terrorist military junta has been the perpetrator on three occasions where at least 40 people were massacred in three different inhumane incidents in Kani Township, Saging Region in July. We are worried that these kinds of inhumane actions will continue to happen.

While the atrocities were being committed in Karenni State, since December 15 the terrorist military junta started to shell using heavy weaponry at Lay Kay Kaw and surrounding areas in Karen State and later with the use of airstrikes, as jets bombed the area indiscriminately. This has displaced more than 10,000 innocent civilians, half of whom fled to Thailand to take refuge. Some Thai villagers also had to relocate for security reasons as some houses on the Thai side of the border were destroyed by artillery shells fired by the terrorist military junta.

The terrorist military junta continues to perpetrate such inhumane criminal acts against people across the country including those in Karenni and Karen States, as they were not held to account for the international atrocity crimes they committed for decades and justice has not been brought. These acts of the terrorist military junta cause extremely high levels of human insecurity and suffering for the people.

Therefore, we urge the United Nations Security Council, Secretary General and international community to immediately respond and take action as follows so that the terrorist regime led by Min Aung Hlaing is effectively punished.

To impose a global arms embargo on Myanmar so that the weapons and technology does not reach the terrorist junta;

To refer the situation of Myanmar to the International Criminal Court (ICC); and

Impose targeted sanctions on the terrorist military junta as well as their businesses and their cronies’ businesses to cut the flow of money to the terrorist junta.

For more information, please contact:

Ko Banya, Karenni Human Rights Group, banya7881@gmail.com

Naw Htoo Htoo, Karen Human Right Group, htoothu@khrg.org

Nai Aue Mon, Human Rights Foundation of Monland, auemon@rehmonnya.org

Signed by the following civil society organizations:

1. Ah Nah – Conversations with Myanmar

2. All Arakan Student’s and Youths’ Congress

3. Arakan CSO Network

4. Assistance Association for Political Prisoners

5. Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters

6. Athan – Freedom of Expression Activist Organization

7. Blood Money Campaign

8. Burmese Canadian Network

9. Burmese Democratic Forces USA

10. Burmese People in Ireland

11. Burmese Women’s Union

12. CRPH and NUG Supporters Ireland

13. CRPH Funding Ireland

14. Democracy for Ethnic Minorities Organization

15. Democracy, Peace and Women’s Organization – DPW

16. Equality Myanmar

17. Federal Myanmar Benevolence Group New Zealand

18. Future Light Center

19. Future Thanlwin

20. Human Rights Foundation of Monland

21. Kachin Women’s Association Thailand

22. Karen Environmental and Social Action Network

23. Karen Human Rights Group

24. Karen Peace Support Network

25. Karen Rivers Watch

26. Karen Women’s Organization

27. Karenni Civil Society Network

28. Karenni Human Rights Group

29. Karenni National Women’s Organization

30. Karenni National Youth Organization

31. Kayah State Students Union

32. Kayan New Generation Youth

33. Kayan Women Organization

34. Keng Tung Youth

35. La Commumauté Birmane de France

36. Let’s Help Each Other

37. Metta Campaign Mandalay

38. Myanmar Democratic Force Denmark

39. Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)

40. Network for Human Rights Documentation (ND-Burma)

41. Olive Organization

42. Pa-O Women’s Union

43. Progressive Voice

44. Save and Care Organization for Ethnic Women at Border Areas

45. Save Myanmar USA

46. Shan MATA

47. Sisters 2 Sisters

48. Sitt Nyein Pann Foundation

49. Southern Youth Development Organization

50. Support the Democracy Movement in Burma

51. Ta’ang Women’s Organization

52. Ta’ang Legal Aid

53. Tanintharyi MATA

54. Union of Karenni State Youth

55. US Advocacy Coalition Myanmar

56. Women Advocacy Coalition – Myanmar

57. Women for Women Foundation

58. Women’s League of Burma

59. Women’s Peace Network

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Junta forces attack Kalay township village from land and air

December 25, 2021/in News

After an attack by the resistance on an area military outpost, Myanmar army troops open fire on the village from two helicopters before setting homes ablaze

The Myanmar army carried out an airstrike from two helicopters on Natchaung village in Sagaing’s Kalay Township on Thursday afternoon and set homes in the community on fire later that evening, according to local sources.

Natchaung, home to some 2,000 households, is located some 15 miles southeast of Kalay town.

After an armed resistance group ambushed a military-occupied high school in Natchaung—where some 100 soldiers were stationed—at around 10am on Thursday, the army sent two helicopters to the site at 3pm. They reportedly circled the village five times from south to north while firing shots.

“The helicopters came one by one. The first one would come, fire shots, and then the second one would come after the first one went back. Then the cycle would be repeated,” a local man told Myanmar Now.

“They fired shots for a long time. Each of the helicopter trips lasted around 20 minutes.”

Junta troops started torching houses in Natchaung at around 6pm after the local defence forces had left and many locals from the village had fled, another resident said.

Although few locals managed to escape during the afternoon airstrikes, more were able to leave in the evening, according to the resident.

“The [Myittha River] jetties did not dare to operate as the military was in the village, so most of the people just stayed in the village,” he said, adding that members of the Myanmar army had promised them in November that they would not harm anyone who stayed behind after such clashes and opted not to run.

He said that at least three homes were destroyed but the full extent of the damage was not known.

Smoke rises from Yae Myet following a raid by regime forces on December 20 (Supplied)

Village in Ye-U Township torched two days after junta air raid

Yae Myet is just the latest village to be targeted by an aerial assault by regime forces

Soldiers raided six homes, stealing valuables and arresting locals who they accused of being connected to the resistance.

The Kalay chapter of the People’s Defence Force, the Chin National Defence Force, and a number of local guerrilla groups are operating in the region, according to the locals who spoke to Myanmar Now.

The airstrike not only damaged homes, but also monasteries, they added. Residents of other nearby villages, such as Nat Myaung and Chaungwa, were also displaced by the attack.

Initial reports said nine people were killed in the clash and the airstrike but Myanmar Now was not able to confirm this information.

With Sagaing and Magway becoming resistance strongholds in the 10 months since Myanmar’s military coup, the junta’s armed forces have been carrying out offensives in the regions, including using attacks from the air and burning homes in Ye-U and Yae Myet in Sagaing and Hnankhar in Magways’ Gangaw.

We tried to contact the junta’s information officers regarding the allegations of escalating attacks by its army, but the calls went unanswered.

Myanmar Now News

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