On the afternoon of 25 January, the Burma Army arrested 13 civilians in Hakha town, the capital of Chin State. The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) reported that seven of those arrested were released on January 27, but six people are still being held in the detection centre. Earlier on 25 January, a clash broke out between the Hakha Chinland Defense Force (Hakha CDF) and the Burma Army in Kyaw Bok ward of Hakha town. At least two Burma Army soldiers were killed during the clash. Following the clash, Burma Army soldiers destroyed three civilian houses which were located near…
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The regime flew an airstrike on a village in Mindat on Monday, injuring civilians and damaging a Buddhist monastery, another religious building and several houses. According to the Public Administration for Mindat Township, a revolutionary group formed after the coup, a fighter jet attacked Palate Htwee at about 11am where no fighting was reported. An hour later, the junta shelled the village with artillery. Many civilians displaced by the war were staying at the monastery, but at press time Khonumthung News could not get further details. Dr Ngai Tam Moung, deputy minister of the Humanitarian and Disaster Management Ministry under…
The Tamu People’s Defence Force (PDF) and the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front’s Battalion 5 burnt down the Election Commission (EC) office in Tamu town in Sagaing Region. “We are against the fake election organised by the military regime. This EC will implement this sham election so we set fire to their office as a warning,” said PDF member Thang Say. He said the fire destroyed important documents related to the upcoming race. The armed group that’s fighting to overthrow the regime has previously threatened to take action against election buildings and anyone who supports the dictatorship’s efforts to hold…
The Matupi Chinland Defence Force (CDF) claims to have killed at least eight regime soldiers and wounded five after they were attacked near Nga Lai in Matupi Township on 21 January. Aaron, CDF spokesperson for Mindat, said fighting broke out between resistance forces and the military in their Battalion 2 area on the Hakha to Matupi road in southern Chin State between 2pm and 4pm. The Matupi armed group were supported by CDFs from Mara and Zotung. The fighting started between Nga Lai and the General Administration District office and spread to a nearby government housing and then to the…
Officials of the Election Commission (EC) under the military government have been conducting house-to-house visits in Chin State since 9 January to collect names for the upcoming general elections in August. “Government employees who haven’t joined the CDM (Civil Disobedience Movement) have been collecting people’s lists in Myo Thit Ward of Hakha town for the past two to three days,” said a local on condition of anonymity. Soldiers and the police are protecting them as they go door to door, he explained. “Even if we don’t go to a polling station to cast our vote, I think they’ll count our…
The regime’s forces shot dead a teenager whose father was abducted by soldiers as a porter but managed to escape from the jungle on the same day that they killed his 17-year-old daughter in Li Lawng, Mindat Township. “The military column had already passed our village but later returned and opened fire from the road,” said a relative of the victim. Ma Har Thi and her elder sister tried to escape from their house near the column, he said, but the soldiers from Infantry Battalion 274 shot her in the face, head and chest. The sister suffered a minor gunshot…
The regime’s airstrikes in Thangtlang have forced the closure of all schools in the township in northern Chin State. “The military has attacked schools and civilian targets. Fighter jets have attacked Camp Victoria in Thangtlang and reconnaissance planes often fly over the township. We do not feel safe and are worried about the safety of our children,” said Salai Cross Thang, head of the Thangtlang Education Department, which is under the Public Administration of the revolutionary government. Both the Public Administration and the education department have warned children to avoid the school grounds, including the playground, since the schools were…
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…
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…