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Thousands Flee Into Thailand as Myanmar Junta Shells Villagers

December 20, 2021/in News

Some 5,000 residents of villages in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township on the Thai border have sought shelter in the neighboring country, while an estimated 10,000 more locals remain internally displaced in the area following the Myanmar junta’s heavy offensives against the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and civilian People’s Defense Force (PDF) groups. On Sunday, […]

Army attacks on two Loikaw villages leave at least 20 houses destroyed by fire

December 20, 2021/in News

Karenni resistance forces said that junta troops deliberately set the houses on fire after shelling the villages Regime forces destroyed at least 20 houses in two villages in Karenni (Kayah) State’s Loikaw Township on Friday, according to the anti-regime Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF). The group accused the military of firing heavy weapons into the […]

Thousands Flee Into Thailand as Myanmar Junta Shells Villagers

December 20, 2021/in News

Army attacks on two Loikaw villages leave at least 20 houses destroyed by fire

December 20, 2021/in News

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Thousands Flee Into Thailand as Myanmar Junta Shells Villagers

December 20, 2021/in News

On Sunday, more displaced people crossed the Thaung Yin River, which forms the border with Thailand, after the junta shelled civilian residential areas. A relief worker helping the IDPs said a growing number of people are stranded at the border and need help, as the fighting has escalated there.

The military fired artillery at them and some shells landed on Thai soil, the source said, adding that he heard the Thais fired back with smoke bombs as a warning.

Military tensions escalated last week when some 200 junta soldiers raided Lay Kay Kaw new town near Myawaddy on Dec. 14, alleging that democracy activists and members of PDF groups were hiding there. Two MPs-elect from the National League for Democracy, U Wai Lin Aung and Dr. Pyae Phyo, were among around 40 people detained by the junta on that day.

The raids and clashes followed the junta’s accusation that the Karen National Union, Myanmar’s oldest revolutionary force, was supporting and sheltering striking civil servants and anti-regime armed resistance groups. The KNLA is the armed wing of the KNU.

Many internally displaced people (IDPs) have been unable to cross the river into Thailand, so Lay Kay Kaw administrative officials are arranging for temporary IDP camps to be set up in the area, said KNU Vice Chairman Padoh Kwe Htoo Win.

“The military activities have continuously intensified in the area, with the deployment of 105-mm howitzers in Myawaddy. It’s likely that they will fire artillery from there [at Lay Kay Kaw and surrounding areas],” he said.

The junta has also sent drones and reconnaissance planes over Lay Kay Kaw and the surrounding area every day, he added.

On Monday morning, planes circled above Lay Kay Kaw, Padoh Kwe Htoo Win told The Irrawaddy in the afternoon. He added, “We are worried they will bomb the area,” which has many villages that are home to ethnic Karen, Mon, Shan and Bamar communities.

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Army attacks on two Loikaw villages leave at least 20 houses destroyed by fire

December 20, 2021/in News

Karenni resistance forces said that junta troops deliberately set the houses on fire after shelling the villages

Regime forces destroyed at least 20 houses in two villages in Karenni (Kayah) State’s Loikaw Township on Friday, according to the anti-regime Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF).

The group accused the military of firing heavy weapons into the villages of Daw Saw Wea and Kunnar from noon until 6pm on Friday and then deliberately setting a number of houses on fire.

In a statement released on Friday, the KNDF called the attacks “one-sided”.

Earlier in the week, a combined force of KNDF and Karenni Army (KA) troops clashed with junta soldiers near the two villages, which lie about 1km apart.

Reh, a resident of Kunnar who fled after the fighting started last Monday, confirmed that he saw smoke rising from the village on Friday afternoon.

“After firing heavy weapons, they came to torch houses in the village for no reason. There are only a few people still there,” he told Myanmar Now on Sunday morning.

He confirmed that at least one house in Kunnar had been set on fire, while 13 houses and seven tractors had been burned in Daw Saw Wea. He said he didn’t know about the other houses that had reportedly been destroyed.

“Most of the houses also had barns attached to them, so that means the rice inside of them is gone now, too. But we can’t put out the fires, because there are soldiers stationed there,” he added.

Last week, residents of around a dozen villages in Kayah State’s Loikaw and Demoso townships were forced to flee their homes following clashes between the military and local resistance forces.

The state was one of the first parts of the country to see the emergence of an armed resistance movement in the wake of the February 1 coup.

The Karenni Civil Society Network reported on Friday that more than 150,000 civilians have been displaced in predominantly Karenni areas of Kayah State and southern Shan State’s Pekhon Township since the conflict began.

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