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Woman killed and children injured during military shelling in southern Shan State

October 25, 2021/in News

Fighting between resistance groups and the junta’s forces is intensifying near the border with Kayah State A woman died and five others including children were injured as junta soldiers fired artillery shells at the town of Moebye in southern Shan State over the weekend, a local rescue group has said. Sixty-year-old Mu Lawm was killed […]

Junta forces murder four civlians in raids on Sagaing Region villages

October 25, 2021/in News

One man was shot while watering crops and another appears to have been tortured and executed after he was detained Junta soldiers and their armed supporters murdered four civilians on Friday during raids on two villages in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township that were aimed at flushing out resistance fighters, witnesses told Myanmar Now. About 10 […]

Woman killed and children injured during military shelling in southern Shan State

October 25, 2021/in News

Junta forces murder four civlians in raids on Sagaing Region villages

October 25, 2021/in News

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Woman killed and children injured during military shelling in southern Shan State

October 25, 2021/in News

Fighting between resistance groups and the junta’s forces is intensifying near the border with Kayah State

A woman died and five others including children were injured as junta soldiers fired artillery shells at the town of Moebye in southern Shan State over the weekend, a local rescue group has said.

Sixty-year-old Mu Lawm was killed after sustaining a head injury from a shell while near her home in the town’s Si Kar 1 neighbourhood on Sunday, according to the Moebye Rescue Team.

And a 50-year-old woman named Daw Mei is in a critical condition after being injured by a shell explosion in the town, while two men aged 40 and 50 sustained minor injuries to their stomachs.

“I think they were just outside their houses when they got hit. The shells landed very close to their houses,” said a rescue worker.

A one-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy were also injured by a shell explosion in the town’s Si Kar 3 area at around 11am the same day.

The baby was injured in her right arm and the boy in his armpit but both were in a stable condition, the rescue worker said.

Junta soldiers from the 422nd Light Infantry Battalion began shelling the town from their base near the Moebye dam at around 8am, the rescue worker said.

“I think they were aiming at the PDFs and because the PDFs were hiding all over Moebye, they were just firing at random places in the township,” he said, referring to local People’s Defence Force fighters.

Resistance fighters seen in Moebye (Progressive Karenni People’s Force)

A Moebye local told Myanmar Now that several houses were also destroyed during the shelling, though the exact number was unclear.

“They were firing shells at random places in the hope of hitting the PDFs. They usually fire shells when they’re about to go somewhere and only start the journey when the PDF is gone,” said the local.

On Saturday evening, junta soldiers shelled the neighbouring town of Pekhon until the early hours of the following morning. The attacks came after the town’s PDF chapter killed five soldiers from the 336th Light Infantry Battalion and confiscated guns on Friday.

Pekhon, which borders Kayah State, is also home to the junta’s No. 7 Military Operation Command, as well as Light Infantry Battalions 336, 421 and 422.

The Karenni People’s Defence Force in Moebye has urged civilians to flee the area, saying fighting could break out with the junta’s forces at any time.

Over 140,000 people from eight townships fled fighting in Kayah between May and mid-October, according to the Karenni Civil Society Network.

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Junta forces murder four civlians in raids on Sagaing Region villages

October 25, 2021/in News

One man was shot while watering crops and another appears to have been tortured and executed after he was detained

Junta soldiers and their armed supporters murdered four civilians on Friday during raids on two villages in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township that were aimed at flushing out resistance fighters, witnesses told Myanmar Now.

About 10 troops and 20 members of the military-backed Pyu Saw Htee group arrived at Ba Oe village at around 5am and shot villagers on sight. Thein Tint, 40, was murdered while watering his crops, while 35-year-old Nan Lwin was shot while running away.

Villagers later found the body of Mya Win, 50, in his home.

“We decided to check his house at the edge of the village and we found him with the top of his head missing,” said one of the villagers, who requested anonymity. “There were no other injuries. I think they shot him in the head at close-range.”

“He was not in a condition to be able to defend himself as he was sick,” the villager added.

“His wife managed to escape but he had to stay behind because of his health.”

The fourth person, 27-year-old Chit San Maung, was killed when around 20 soldiers raided the nearby village of Inn Pat.

Another man in Ba Oe was badly injured by a bullet that struck his thigh, locals said.

The entire populations of both villages fled the attacks. Ba Oe has around 300 households while Inn Pat has around 500.

“There are still some people who have not eaten since we left,” said the Ba Oe villager. “There’s nothing we can do now no matter how angry we are. The whole village is in trouble.”

Military units and plainclothes military personnel were still stationed at the monastery in Ba Oe the day after the raids, and the bodies of the three people who were killed there had not been buried, the villager said.

After everyone fled Inn Pat village, Chit San Maung and another person returned on Friday afternoon thinking the military had left, but were met by soldiers.

“The person who accompanied Chit San Maung told us that he was taken by the military and that he let them arrest him peacefully,” a villager said on condition of anonymity. “But we found a pool of blood around 200 feet from where he was taken and his body was found outside the village.”

Chit San Maung was shot in the head, said the villager, adding that he also had his arm broken and numerous fractures all over his body.

Several calls to junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun requesting comment went unanswered.

A house in Inn Pat seen after it was ransacked by soldiers (Supplied)

Several military units stationed themselves in the Khin-U villages of Pyin Htaung, Magyitone, Madaunghla and Ywar Thit this month and have since launched numerous raids on other villages in the area, according to the Khin-U People Defence Force (PDF).

Soldiers killed five people including a 5-year-old child on October 1 when they raided Pyin Htaung, while a sixth villager died of shock. Locals said the father of the deceased child was a junta soldier who was stationed in another area.

Three people from the village of Tesu were killed on October 3 and another person was killed there on October 16.

Resistance forces in the area are badly outgunned, often forced to use single-shot muskets while going up against soldiers with rifles and heavy weaponry.

Despite that, the junta has suffered heavy losses in the region as resistance forces use landmines and other explosives in guerilla-style attacks.

Myanmar Now News

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