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Htei Hlaw residents return to find torched houses and burned body

October 4, 2021/in News

The Magway Region village, which was occupied over the weekend, has been a target of army attacks since last month Residents of Htei Hlaw, a village in Magway Region’s Gangaw Township that was occupied by junta troops over the weekend, said they returned to their homes on Monday to find burned houses and the charred […]

Junta troops shoot and kill five civilians, including young girl, during raid on village in Sagaing

October 4, 2021/in News

Locals said that the child’s father is a Myanmar military soldier Junta troops shot and killed a six-year-old girl and four other people during a raid on a village in Sagaing Region last week, locals told Myanmar Now. Around 100 soldiers arrived at Pyin Htaung village, Khin-U Township at 4am on Friday and began shooting. […]

Htei Hlaw residents return to find torched houses and burned body

October 4, 2021/in News

Junta troops shoot and kill five civilians, including young girl, during raid on village in Sagaing

October 4, 2021/in News

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Htei Hlaw residents return to find torched houses and burned body

October 4, 2021/in News

The Magway Region village, which was occupied over the weekend, has been a target of army attacks since last month

Residents of Htei Hlaw, a village in Magway Region’s Gangaw Township that was occupied by junta troops over the weekend, said they returned to their homes on Monday to find burned houses and the charred remains of an unidentified body.

According to residents, soldiers raided the village late last Friday and stayed there until around 5pm on Sunday. Villagers who returned the following day discovered the body in one of nine houses that had been burned down.

“They left it in one of the torched houses. All the flesh had been burned off, leaving only bones,” said a Htei Hlaw villager who spoke to Myanmar Now on Monday.

Another villager said that in addition to destroying two brick houses and seven others made of wood, the troops also stole two vehicles parked at the village monastery.

Many houses were also looted, and several pigs left behind by the fleeing villagers were slaughtered and eaten by the occupying soldiers, he added.

According to both residents, young men who returned to the village on Saturday to put out fires set by the soldiers were forced to retreat after they came under fire.

They added, however, that the young villagers succeeded in extinguishing a number of blazes before retreating.

The Htei Hlaw residents said that the troops also shelled positions where fleeing villagers had taken shelter.

“They would start shelling early in the morning. They fired 5-10 shells at a time. But it was only in the morning,” said one of the villagers who spoke to Myanmar Now.

Htei Hlaw, located in the strategically important Yaw region of northern Magway, has come under repeated attacks by the military since last month.

On September 12, regime forces raided the village of roughly 1,000 inhabitants, torching 27 homes and killing a villager and a member of a local resistance group.

The conflict has displaced thousands of civilians in the area, which borders Sagaing Region and Chin State, where the military has also faced fierce resistance since seizing power in February.

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Junta troops shoot and kill five civilians, including young girl, during raid on village in Sagaing

October 4, 2021/in News

Locals said that the child’s father is a Myanmar military soldier

Junta troops shot and killed a six-year-old girl and four other people during a raid on a village in Sagaing Region last week, locals told Myanmar Now.

Around 100 soldiers arrived at Pyin Htaung village, Khin-U Township at 4am on Friday and began shooting. Myo Thandar Hlaing lived in the village with her aunt and was shot trying to escape the raid.

Locals said her father was a soldier serving under the junta and was stationed in Kanbalu, though they did not know his rank. Her mother lives in military housing, they added.

The girl was buried on Saturday and her father did not attend the funeral, they said.

Thirty-year-old Tun Si was also shot dead in the village, while Aung Tun Oo, 38, Ma Pu, 35, and Than Htike, 30, were shot dead in nearby paddy fields. A sixth person who suffered from health problems died of shock during the attack, locals said.

Around 400 people live in Pyin Htaung. When the raid began most fled in panic as soldiers fired their guns, said one of the villagers.

“They started firing shots randomly as soon as they entered the village,” he said. “Those who ran into the soldiers ended up getting shot.”

After the shootings, the soldiers burned down two houses, one of which they suspected had been used as a training site for People’s Defence Force (PDF) fighters. They also ransacked and damaged a house with a National League for Democracy banner hanging outside.

Junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun did not answer calls seeking comment.

A PDF leader from Khin-U said the underground National Unity Government (NUG) was not doing enough to help resistance fighters defend civilians from junta attacks.

“We need money to be prepared to go to war,” he said. “I think the NUG has not been very productive. It’s not just the PDFs, even the regular civilians are suffering great losses. We would like to urge them to provide more weapons for us.”

At least 1,158 civilians have been killed and more than 7,000 are imprisoned by the coup regime, according to data released by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) on Monday.

The junta has declared the AAPP an illegal organisation and rejected their data as exaggerated.

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