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Global Charity Warns Thousands of Displaced Myanmar Children Facing Starvation

October 4, 2021/in News

By THE IRRAWADDY 4 October 2021 A large proportion of more than 76,000 children in Myanmar who have been forced to flee their homes since the February coup could go hungry as their families share a single meal per day, Save the Children has warned. Citing the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, the charity said on Monday […]

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 […]

Global Charity Warns Thousands of Displaced Myanmar Children Facing Starvation

October 4, 2021/in News

Htei Hlaw residents return to find torched houses and burned body

October 4, 2021/in News

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Global Charity Warns Thousands of Displaced Myanmar Children Facing Starvation

October 4, 2021/in News

By THE IRRAWADDY 4 October 2021

A large proportion of more than 76,000 children in Myanmar who have been forced to flee their homes since the February coup could go hungry as their families share a single meal per day, Save the Children has warned.

Citing the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, the charity said on Monday that around 206,000 people have been displaced by violence since the coup.

Of them, 76,000 are children and many are sheltering in forests during torrential rain under tarpaulins without enough food, it reported.

“While the world’s attention has moved on, a hunger crisis is unfolding in Myanmar,” Save the Children said. “Children are already going hungry and very soon they will start to succumb to disease and malnutrition.”

Myanmar is seeing growing popular resistance to military rule in response to attacks on peaceful protests.

The junta has retaliated with brutal raids on villages suspected of harboring resistance fighters while torching houses and making arbitrary arrests, particularly in Sagaing and Magwe regions, Chin and Kayah states.

*Displaced families taking shelter in Loikaw, Kayah State. / Free Burma Ranger Karenni*

While the displaced people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and food, delivery of aid is often blocked or restricted by the junta.

A volunteer at a displacement camp in Kayah State said hunger was a huge concern for displaced families.

“In the beginning, they received public donations or from charities that were helping people in the camps. But now donations are limited because people are being prevented from going to the camps. Some rice bags were donated and every family got just five cups. That’s not much for a family of seven people to live off,” the volunteer told Save the Children.

In Kayah State, around 22,000 people fled their homes in September alone, according to the UN, which said more than 79,000 people, including around 29,000 children, are displaced in the state.

Earlier this year, the World Food Programme estimated that the number of children in the country going hungry could more than double to 6.2 million this year, up from 2.8 million in February.

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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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ND-Burma formed in 2004 in order to provide a way for Burma human rights organizations to collaborate on the human rights documentation process. The 13 ND-Burma member organizations seek to collectively use the truth of what communities in Burma have endured to advocate for justice for victims. ND-Burma trains local organizations in human rights documentation; coordinates members’ input into a common database using Martus, a secure open-source software; and engages in joint-advocacy campaigns.

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