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Nearly 100 homes torched and three civilians killed in Myanmar military raid on Sagaing village

June 6, 2022/in News

A local source described the column behind the raid as possessing advanced weaponry and speculated that it may be a ‘special operations force’ moving through the region A junta attack on a village in Sagaing Region’s Wetlet Township on June 2 left some 97 homes burned and three people dead, according to locals who spoke […]

Junta artillery shell kills three, including 8-year-old boy, in Sagaing village

June 4, 2022/in News

The boy and his mother and grandfather died after junta troops fired on their home during a clash with a local defence force An eight-year-old child was killed along with his mother and grandfather when an artillery shell fired by junta troops hit their home in central Sagaing Region on Wednesday. The victims were identified […]

Nearly 100 homes torched and three civilians killed in Myanmar military raid on Sagaing village

June 6, 2022/in News

Junta artillery shell kills three, including 8-year-old boy, in Sagaing village

June 4, 2022/in News

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Nearly 100 homes torched and three civilians killed in Myanmar military raid on Sagaing village

June 6, 2022/in News

A local source described the column behind the raid as possessing advanced weaponry and speculated that it may be a ‘special operations force’ moving through the region

A junta attack on a village in Sagaing Region’s Wetlet Township on June 2 left some 97 homes burned and three people dead, according to locals who spoke to Myanmar Now two days after the assault.

The civilians’ bodies were found the evening following the raid inside the charred remains of homes in Kyauk Taing village. Among them was a 60-year-old paraplegic man who residents identified as Pho Khe.

Dr Naing Aung, a parliamentarian for Wetlet ousted in last year’s coup, said that one of the other bodies belonged to a man who appeared to have suffered head injuries and bruising, and was disfigured beyond recognition.

He told Myanmar Now that villagers believed the third body, also burned, belonged to a woman named Aye Nu, whose age was not confirmed at the time of reporting.

“I think she ran into the junta column while trying to flee. They killed her and crushed her under a motorcycle, and put a pile of wood on top which they burned,” he said.

The 70-soldier military column that carried out the attack moved north from Kyauk Taing hours after the raid, reportedly heading to the village of Myin Thei. It is believed they also set fire to homes in that community, but Myanmar Now was unable to verify the extent of the damage.

Thousands of locals from seven area villages including Kyauk Taing and Myin Thei had been displaced by troop movements and assaults in the region.

The column in question departed Wetlet town on May 28 and subsequently raided the villages of U Ti Kone, Tei Taw and U Yin Thar before targeting Kyauk Taing, engaging in several clashes with local anti-junta defence forces along the eastern shore of the Muu River during the period in question.

Kyauk Taing village pictured after the June 2 raid (Supplied)

Dr Naing Aung said that the soldiers were in possession of advanced weaponry, including artillery shells, anti-drone weapons, and sniper rifles, and appeared to be highly trained in combat.

“I think that this column is a special operations force. They’re completely different from the ones we have seen before. They used different tactics, as well,” he said.

Junta officials did not respond to calls for comment.

Monitoring group Data for Myanmar has stated that, as of April, some 11,470 homes had been burned by the military and their allies since the February 2021 coup, and that more than half of these houses were in Sagaing.

In press conferences, military council spokesperson Zaw Min Tun has repeatedly denied that the junta’s forces are responsible for the attacks, instead accusing resistance groups of setting the fires.

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Junta artillery shell kills three, including 8-year-old boy, in Sagaing village

June 4, 2022/in News

The boy and his mother and grandfather died after junta troops fired on their home during a clash with a local defence force

An eight-year-old child was killed along with his mother and grandfather when an artillery shell fired by junta troops hit their home in central Sagaing Region on Wednesday.

The victims were identified as Zin Bhone, his mother Lei Lei Soe, 26, and his grandfather Soe Kyaw, 53, from the village of Koe Taung Boet in northern Kanbalu Township.

The shelling happened during a clash between junta troops stationed in the village and members of a local defence force called KTB-R.

Over 80 junta troops had been occupying the village and some 50 of them left for the town of Kawlin, about 11km north of Koe Taung Boet, on Wednesday, according to Ko Chit, a leader of the KTB-R.

Members of the defence group then entered the village and launched attacks on the remaining junta troops, who had positioned themselves in trenches in the north of the village, said Ko Chit.

An artillery shell fired by junta troops from outside the village hit the house of the victims, he added.

“They were inside their home, but the heavy artillery shells that the military fired fell right on the house. We were unable to save them as we were busy fighting and it was already night,” Ko Chit told Myanmar Now.

The clash escalated after the incident and continued until Friday, he added.

“The battle on June 1 wasn’t that fierce. It was just us trying to close in on them. But the day after they killed the family, we attacked them from all directions and they fought back from the trenches,” Ko Chit said.

The soldiers had been stationed in Koe Taung Boet since late March and had dug trenches and built communication tunnels there, essentially creating a small base, according to Ko Chit.

However, most of the soldiers stayed in the houses of displaced villagers until Wednesday, when those who remained behind after around 50 of them left took up position in the trenches.

“They were firing at us from their camp, but we had them surrounded from both inside and outside of the village,” said the KTB-R leader.

Koe Taw Boet is a village of around 2,000 households. Most of its inhabitants have fled the area due to the clashes.

On February 4, a junta column coming south from Kawlin clashed with the village’s defence forces, killing 16 resistance fighters, according to KTB-R.

Sagaing Region has been a major stronghold of Myanmar’s armed resistance movement against the military regime that seized power in a coup early last year.

The military has been accused of raiding and burning villages in many parts of the region in a bid to crush resistance to its rule. There have also been numerous reports of junta soldiers using villagers as human shields and then executing them.

Zaw Min Tun, the regime’s spokesperson, has repeatedly rejected allegations of military atrocities, but seldom comments on individual cases.

The junta has also imposed a communications blackout across a wide area of the region, as well as in parts of neighbouring Magway Region, as it steps up its offensives in these areas.

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