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…
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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…
A number of regime soldiers were killed after the Kanpetlet Chinland Defence Force (CDF) attacked their camp in southern Chin State, according to the resistance group that’s fighting to overthrow the regime. “Our snipers killed five soldiers. We have not counted any other casualties, but there might have been more,” a CDF officer said. He explained that they shot at seven soldiers in one building and none of them left the building, so suspects they were all killed. The group carried out the two attacks on the morning of 11 March after scouting the camp the night before. The regime…
Hundreds of Chins have been killed since the coup that reverted the country to a dictatorship over two years ago after a reform period lasting three elections. According to a report by the Institute of Chin Affairs (ICA), until early March, at least 380 people were killed during the civil war in Chin State, a stronghold of the resistance, including children and some religious leaders. 164 died in 2021, 195 in 2022 and 24 by 28 February this year. There were 120 civilians killed, including 24 children and 4 pastors, and 230 fighting against the regime. The ICA report points…