A 30-year-old woman’s leg was amputated at a hospital after she accidentally stepped on a concealed landmine when she returned home from her farm in Hakha, northern Chin State. Two of her friends who were with her when she detonated the hidden buried explosive devise next to the Khusilobo Victory Monument at 2pm on 1 March were not injured in the blast. Soldiers have planted other landmines around the town and others have accidentally stepped on them. On 19 February, a 60-year-old man lost one of his legs while collecting firewood on the Hakha – Gangaw road in Hakha Township.…
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The military shot dead a man on a motorbike and injured the driver in Kalay town in Sagaing Region on 2 March. An eyewitness said the passenger’s intestines fell out after the bullet pierced his stomach, while the driver was shot in his leg and managed to flee from the soldiers in front of the Irrigation Department in Tawng Zalap Ward. Although it’s not illegal to ride a motorbike in the town where fighting with the local People’s Defence Force is frequent, soldiers sometimes shoot at bikes without provocation. However, it’s unclear why they opened fire in the recent attack.…
Three civilians, including a child, and a Chinland Defence Force soldier (CDF) were killed by shelling in Mindat Township, southern Chin State. According to an anonymous CDF officer, Infantry Battalion 274 fired an artillery shell from Mindat town that hit a house in Amlawng village, killing the homeowners, their son and Chin fighter Salai Billy Awng Thang on 25 February. “The shell landed on the house when people were discussing about issues affecting IDPs (internally displaced persons) in Amlawng. Our soldier was working in the administration department and helping the IDPs,” the officer told Khonumthung News. Two children and two…
In Chin State, the Thangtlang Chinland Defence Force (CDF) claimed to have killed many regime fighters after launching the ‘Tilim Military Operation’ in Thangtlang Township together with the Chin National Army, which began on 29 December and will last for 60 days. According to the PDF, they had killed at least 20 government soldiers and injured 25 others, including regime police officers by 26 February. The two armies fighting to overthrow the dictatorship also captured over 50 assault rifles and damaged two airships carrying rations and other supplies on 29 January and 26 February. In addition, the groups attacked the…
On Saturday, Salai Zakhariah of the Chin National Army (CNA) and Salai Lian Bawi Ceu of the Thangtlang Chinland Defence Force (CDF) were killed in a fierce battle with the regime in Thangtlang town, which the regime is trying to capture from the Chin resistance groups. Fighting in the town in northern Chin State has escalated daily since early February, when the regime sent in ground troops, but in the middle of the month it began sending in jet fighters and firing artillery from Hakha after reporting heavy casualties on the battlefield. On 16 February, CNA and CDF were stationed…
The military regime has allowed Christians to return to the church in Hakha town on the weekend without needing permission. The situation has improved for churchgoers after leaders of the Hakha Christian Ministry Fellowship (HCMF) called for an end to the blockade during a meeting with the military’s strategic commander in the town. “We just have to give them information such as the address of our church, the names of the pastors, a contact phone number and the number of worshippers, and they have allowed it,” a local pastor, who declined to give his name, told Khonumthung News. The regime…
On Saturday, a 26-year-old woman lost her right leg after she accidentally detonated a concealed landmine in Falam Township, Chin State. Pi Laltanpuii, who’s from Zokhawhta, which is located in India’s Mizoram State, stepped on the hidden explosive device near Satawm while she was on her way to visit her husband in the township in northern Chin. “Her husband returned to his parents’ house at Leilet in Falam township after falling ill,” explained a nurse at Mercy Clinic in Zokhawhta. The accident occurred about 20 miles from the village, which is not far from the Indian border. Hidden landmines pose…
At least 45 Burma Army soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in armed clashes in different areas of Chin State over the first 10 days of February, according to the Chin National Front (CNF), the political wing of the Chin National Army (CNA). During the clashes, Chin resistance groups captured more than 50 assault rifles as well as ammunition, grenades and an anti-drone weapon. The CNF reported that three Chin resistance soldiers were killed and two were wounded during the clashes. From 1 to 11 February, multiple Chin resistance groups engaged in armed clashes with the Burma Army in the…
On 8 February, Chin resistance groups clashed with the Burma Army in the Zotung region of Matupi Township in southern Chin State. The intense armed clash took place from noon until 2 p.m. The combined forces of six armed groups – the Chin National Army, the Matupi Chinland Defense Force, the Zotung Chinland Defense Force, the Senthang Chinland Defense Force, the Lautu Chinland Defense Force, and the Zophei Chinland Defense Force – clashed with Burma Army soldiers. A representative of the Zotung Chinland Defense Force (CDF–Zotung) reported that the Burma army suffered many causalities during the clash. The source reported…
On 9 February around two a.m., a police station was captured in Thangtlang town by a combined force of the Chin National Army, which is armed wing of Chin National Front (CNF/CNA), and Thangtlang Chinland Defense Force (Thangtlang CDF). According to representatives of these Chin resistance groups at least four Burma Army soldiers were killed during the fighting. Lt Aa Thang of the CNA was killed and another CNA soldier was injured. Salai Htet Ni (source 1), spokesperson for the CNF/CNA, said that the combined forces of the CNA and Thangtlang CDF started attacking the police station in Zung Mung…