On 5 April, the Chinland Defnese Force – Kalay, Kabaw, Gangaw (CDF – KKG) reported that at least seven Burma army soldiers were killed during clashes around Tuingo village in northern Kalay Township since the start of April. On 31 March, a Burma army military column was traveling from Nan Soung Pu village to Tuingo village in northern Kalay Township. The CDF – KKG reported that their troops exchanged gunfire with a combined force of Burma army and Pyusawhtee People’s Militia Force (Pyusawhtee PMF) near the graveyard in Tuingo village for approximately three hours. After this clash, additional resistance forces…
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The Burma army has launched a major military offensive operation against resistance groups in northern Kalay Township, Sagaing Region. Nearly 30,000 people from 11 villages were displaced by the escalating clashes. Since 31 March, when the offensive began, the combined forces of multiple resistance groups have had numerous clashes with Burma army soldiers in the areas surrounding Tuingo village. After suffering causalities, the Burma army launched airstrikes and attacked resistance groups with heavy weapons including 122 mm rocket launchers. Local people have fled from 11 villages due to the fighting, and have taken shelter in safer locations. Some of the…
On 3 April, Burma army soldiers set fire to six civilian houses in Tlangzar village, which is located in Falam Township on the Falam – Hakha vehicle road. Tlangzar village has approximately 40 houses and is located nearly 17 miles from Falam town. The morning of 3 April, clashes broke near Tlangzar village out between Chin resistance groups and a Burma army military column which was traveling from Falam town to Hakha town. The fighting lasted for approximately one hour. After the clash ended the Burma army set fire to some houses in Tlangzar village, according to a Chin resistance…
The Burma army set fire to 30 civilian houses in Kalar village in Matupi Township in southern Chin State. Kalar village is located on the Matupi – Paletwa vehicle road. A representative of the People’s Administration for Matupi Township reported that nine houses were set on fire on 31 March and 21 houses were set on fire on 1 April. The People’s Administration reported that the fires were started by soldiers from a Burma army military column transporting food rations from Matupi town to Paletwa town. “A clash broke out near Kalar village. A military truck of the Burma army…
On 2 April, a combined force of local armed resistance groups clashed with the Burma army near Tuingo village in Kalay Township of Sagaing Region. The clashes broke out around 8 a.m. when a junta military column was on patrol in the area between Tuingo and Min HLa villages. The military column was traveling from east to west through Nan Tagar creek. During the clash, the armed resistance groups were also attacked by the junta’s artillery battalion based in Kalay town. A resistance group soldier reported that on 31 March they had an intense clash with junta forces near Tuingo…
The Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD) will contest the upcoming election under the military regime and last week became the first Chin party to register with the Union Election Commission (UEC). “Our party has been recognised as a political party since 2012, but we reformed our party and registered with the UEC because some of the leaders passed away and other members resigned,” said Pu Gin Kam Liang, the party’s secretary. He found it strange they had to pay the UEC about $4,700 as it’s not a new party, but said their application was accepted and was told they’ll be…
Government soldiers razed most of the houses in a village after suffering heavy casualties during fighting with a resistance group in Tamu Township, Sagaing Region, a couple of days earlier. “We are devastated, but there is nothing we can do except accept the situation. All the villagers are sad and some of them are crying. They are so cruel,” a man whose house was torched said on condition of anonymity. Of the 29 houses in Kun Tawng Ywar Thit (also called Chin village), the army set fire to 24 on 25 March. The army often targets civilians in Sagaing Region…
The Matupi Chinland Defence Force (CDF) killed at least 12 regime soldiers and wounded many of them in an ambush on the Matupi-Paletwa road in southern Chin State, Ko Aaron, the group’s spokesperson, told Khonumthung News. He said they attacked a column of 80 soldiers from Infantry Battalion 304 in three military trucks in Matupi Township that were on their way to Htel Bwi camp from Paletwa town on 20-21 March with troops and supplies. “We clashed with them four times…There were no casualties on our side. There may be more fighting until the column reaches Htel Bwi military camp,”…
Under the theme of “Institutional Peace: Strengthening Communication to Build Trust”, an international peace NGO, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light(HWPL), holds its 7th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War(DPCW) from March 14th to 19th in 41 countries from Africa, Europe, North America and Asia. With the foundation of “Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)” as a tool for comprehensive global peacebuilding cooperation, 7,000 people in the fields of politics, legal profession and religion, education, media, women and youth, will join the event where the participants share the cases of conflict prevention,…
The Chin National Defence Force (CNDF) stopped a regime column in Falam Township in its tracks during an ambush in northern Chin State on Tuesday, 14 March. “One vehicle is missing and two were totally damaged by the mine attack, but we still do not know how many soldiers we have killed…They can not continue to travel on the road,” said CNDF brigade commander Salai Lian No. He said they planted the landmine field between Ver Loung village and Pine Tree camp. The 30 vehicles that had left Kalay about 10 days ago to bring troops, equipment and food to…