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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. […]

Almost 100 Civilians Killed By Myanmar Junta Forces in September

October 1, 2021/in News

By THE IRRAWADDY 1 October 2021 At least 99 more people, including a toddler and four senior citizens in their seventies, were killed by Myanmar junta forces in September. Their deaths push the number of people who have died at the hands of the military regime to 1,146 over the past eight months, according to the Assistance […]

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

October 4, 2021/in News

Almost 100 Civilians Killed By Myanmar Junta Forces in September

October 1, 2021/in News

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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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Almost 100 Civilians Killed By Myanmar Junta Forces in September

October 1, 2021/in News

By THE IRRAWADDY 1 October 2021

At least 99 more people, including a toddler and four senior citizens in their seventies, were killed by Myanmar junta forces in September. Their deaths push the number of people who have died at the hands of the military regime to 1,146 over the past eight months, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)

Myanmar has been in political and social turmoil since the junta’s February 1 coup, as the merciless military regime continues with brutal and lethal crackdowns in its efforts to suppress the nationwide rebellion against the junta.

In September, the Myanmar military massacred civilians, including children, torched entire villages, fired randomly into homes and shelled residential areas in Kayah and Chin states and Magwe, Sagaing and Mandalay regions. The junta claims those areas were harboring People’s Defense Forces: bands of civilian resistance fighters opposing the regime.

Among those killed in September were nine children, the youngest of whom was one and half-years-old, detainees who were tortured to death, members and supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and three medics, according to the latest report from the AAPP, an activist group which monitors killings and arrests by the junta.

*The body of an old man who was tied up and beaten to death in Myin Thar Village, Yaw, Magwe Region. / CJ*

On September 20, regime troops raided Shaw Phyu Village in Natogyi Township, Mandalay Region. During the raid, junta forces shot at the home of NLD supporters, killing five family members.

Four of five were shot dead on the spot. A one and half-year-old child survived initially but died from injuries after arriving at Mandalay General Hospital, AAPP stated in their report.

In northern Shan State’s Monekoe Township, nine-year-old Mah Bon suffered serious head injuries after a junta artillery shell hit his home on September 27. The boy died the following day. His mother was also injured in the artillery strike.

Around a dozen detainees were tortured to death in September. Among them was Mandalay-based political activist and philanthropist Ko Than Htun Oo, aka Ko Min Ko Thein, a member of the NLD’s Mandalay branch. He died in police custody just a few hours after being arrested on September 25.

The 48-year-old, affectionately known as ‘Ko Fatty’ among his friends, was arrested at his home in Aungmyaythazan Township, Mandalay Region for alleged possession of weapons.

During the raid on his house, junta forces told him to get on his knees. When he said that he couldn’t kneel due to his weight, he was reportedly shot in the knee. He was arrested despite no weapons being found during the search. In the evening of the following day, his family was notified of his death. Ko Than Htun Oo’s body was not returned to the family, with regime officials claiming that they had organized funeral rites for him.

Ko Zaw Linn Htet, 30, from Pyay, Bago Region also died during an interrogation after just a few hours in junta custody. He was detained with his younger brother on the afternoon of September 6, allegedly in connection with the arrest of student union members a week before. His family was also informed of his death at night.

September also saw a surge in killings of youth activists and villagers from anti-regime strongholds where civilian resistance groups have inflicted heavy casualties on junta forces.

In Yangon, four young people were shot dead at midnight on September 25 after regime forces raided their hideout in Sanchaung Township. Two of the four activists were identified as Dr. Zin Lynn and nurse Ma Khin Khin Kywel. The following day, the wife of Dr. Zin Lynn, who is also a medical doctor, was arrested at her home. The couple have a seven-month-old baby.

On Thursday, junta spokesperson Major General Zaw Min Tun said at a press conference that the youths had opened fire on junta soldiers when they surrounded the hideout, killing and injuring a few of them. He claimed that the four activists were killed in a subsequent shootout with regime forces.

However, local residents and video footage uploaded by Khit Thit Media revealed that the young people were dragged from the apartment and beaten and kicked several times, before the junta forces fired shots. Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun made no mention of this at the press conference.

Young victims seen before their cremation in Myin Thar Village, Yaw, Magwe
Region. / CJ

Teenagers were also rounded up and massacred in Myin Thar Village in Yaw in Magwe Region on September 9. In all, 18 people died in the village, including elderly citizens, and some 20 houses were burned down by junta forces.

The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar – an independent group of prominent former United Nations human rights experts – urged the United Nations Security Council in its latest statement to declare the junta a “terrorist organization” for its atrocities against its own people including public torture, executions and the taking of hostages, including children.

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