A soldier from the Matupi Chinland Defence Force (CDF) was killed and the resistance group, which is fighting to overthrow the dictatorship, lost four rifles and some ammunition in a clash with the military in southern Chin State. On 15 January, fighting broke out between the PDF and 100 regime soldiers along the Matupi – Hakha road after the military raided Nga Lai. The next day, the fighter was killed and the PDF lost 2 M-4 rifles, 2 pistols, 11 motorbikes, 7 mobile phones, some rifle ammunition and $715 after they were forced to make a hasty retreat from the…
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Fighter jets attacked the Chin National Front (CNF) headquarters in Chin State on Tuesday. This escalated the war against the organisation, whose armed wing, the Chin National Army (CNA), has been fighting the regime’s troops a few months after the military coup almost two years ago. At around 4pm on Tuesday, several jet fighters attacked Camp Victoria in Thangtlang Township near the Indian border at least five times, killing five soldiers, including two women. The deceased soldiers are Salai Van Ro Pyan, Salai Duh Tin, Salai Kil Mang, Mai Ngun Hlei Par and Mai Sui Len Par. CNF reported that…
The Chin National Organisation (CNO) has slammed the regime leader Min Aung Hlaing’s push to organise a national election in Burma, pointing out that the regime’s forces have killed many innocent civilians and bombed their homes in Chin State since the army took power nearly two years ago. The CNO, whose armed wing, the Chin National Defence Force, is fighting to overthrow the dictatorship, said it wouldn’t allow polling in Falam Township in Chin State and upper Chindwin area in Sagaing Region in a 11 January statement. It was published after the group convened its second plenary meeting at its…
The junta has flown airstrikes twice in the past week on the Chin National Front’s (CNF) headquarters in Camp Victoria, killing some of the Chin soldiers. Khonumthung News reached out to the CNF spokesperson Salai Htet Ni for his comment on the attacks in northern Chin State. Can you tell us about the attack by the regime’s jet fighters on Camp Victoria? Fighter jets attacked our headquarters for two days. During the first airstrike, 10 January, five fighter jets attacked at around 4pm, with one shell landing on the Indian side of the border. Five CNF soldiers, including two women,…
The Interim Chin National Consultative Council (ICNCC), an organisation formed by former legislators sacked in the military coup, civil society groups and the Chin National Front (CNF), has criticised the military’s recent airstrikes on the CNF headquarters in Camp Victoria in northern Chin State. In a statement, the ICNCC said that the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, which killed five CNF soldiers, damaged a clinic and destroyed a medical supply depot at the headquarters in Thangtlang Township, saddened the Chin community but also strengthened their resolve to fight to overthrow the military regime. ICNCC wrote: “The military’s air strikes on…Camp…
The regime attacked the Chin National Front (CNF) headquarters in Camp Victoria for a second time. This time, two jet fighters bombed the CNF’s strategic hill, a clinic and a medical supply shop twice at 5 pm on Wednesday. A source close to the Chin group, whose armed wing, the Chin National Army (CNA), is resisting the military dictatorship, said the clinic and store were completely destroyed. Fortunately, no one was killed or injured in the second air strike. Five CNA soldiers, including two women, were killed when jet fighters dropped five shells on the camp in Thangtlang township near…
After resistance groups attacked regime forces in Kalay town, the junta responded, as it has done so many times in the past, by indiscriminately killing innocent civilians in the area, said an officer of the Kalay People’s Defence Force (PDF). In Tar Han Ward, where the military opened fire on 9 January, one person was killed, he told Khonumthung News. The Kalay PDF ambushed a regime unit that was near Wesley Hospital before the junta attacked the civilians living in the ward. At least three regime fighters were killed in the morning by landmines planted by the PDF during the…
Fighter jets attacked the Chin National Front (CNF) headquarters in Chin State on Tuesday. This escalated the war against the organisation, whose armed wing, the Chin National Army (CNA), has been fighting the regime’s troops a few months after the military coup almost two years ago. At around 4 pm on Tuesday, several jet fighters attacked Camp Victoria in Thangtlang Township near the Indian border at least five times, killing five soldiers, including two women. The deceased soldiers are Salai Van Ro Pyan, Salai Duh Tin, Salai Kil Mang, Mai Ngun Hlei Par and Mai Sui Len Par. CNF reported…
Soldiers from the regime’s Infantry Battalion (IB) 274 reportedly killed civilians they had abducted while on patrol near a university west of Mindat in southern Chin State. According to a local source who requested anonymity, the army abducted the three people about nine miles from Mindat. The bodies of two of the victims were found by their families about four miles from the town. The victims are from Lung Hker, Thangroe and Nangi villages. The Mindat Chinland Defence Force, which is fighting the regime’s military, has not yet issued a statement on the incident. The junta has sent more soldiers…
The Interim Chin National Consultative Council (ICNCC) has called for the immediate release of Chin and Kachin Baptist Christian leaders detained by the military regime. In a 22 December statement, ICNCC addressed the recent arrest of former Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) leader Pastor Dr Hkalam Samson. The Kachin leader was arrested over three weeks ago at Mandalay airport when he was about to fly to Bangkok for medical treatment. The regime is reportedly planning to charge Hkalam Samson, but no charges have been filed yet and his whereabouts are still unknown. On 7 December, the junta convicted Chin leader Rev…