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…
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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…
An armed group fighting Burma’s military regime announced it would restrict traffic on the road from Kalay in Sagaing Region to Rih in northern Chin State. Last Friday, the Mountain Eagle Defence Force (MEDF) said in a statement that civilian vehicles, including buses and trucks, would only be allowed to travel between 7:30 am and 5:30 pm for security reasons. According to the MEDF, the military fired on Hai Mual villagers travelling on the road at night. “No one was wounded by the shelling. God saved these people, so no one has been injured so far. However, it’s too dangerous…
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are struggling to survive as the number of donors has dwindled, volunteers helping them in Paletwa Township have told Khonumthung News. According to a man in Sami, there is only one donor left to care for the nearly 10,000 people who have fled the fighting across southern Chin State. “Many organisations used to come to provide food rations to the IDPs, but now it is only the World Food Programme (WFP)…in both Sami and Paletwa towns every month.” The volunteer said they give rice, peas, cooking oil and salt, and nutritional powder for the children and…
Three men and a woman displaced by the war were wounded when regime forces fired upon Myet Pyin Kyel and the surrounding farmland around the village in Kanpetlet Township, southern Chin State last week. A volunteer helping displaced civilians said the soldiers entered the village and then attacked two bamboo huts housing farm workers with light and heavy fire. Three people were seriously injured, while another person suffered minor injuries, he said. The victims, aged between 50 and 70, are being treated at an unspecified medical facility. Another source, who is a member of a committee helping displaced villagers, told…
The Kalay People’s Defence Force reportedly detained three two civilians and regime Corp Min Zaw Oo, who was later shot dead when he tried to escape while they transported the men to their jungle camp. Acting on a tip-off, the armed group entered the BMB KTV in Kalay town, which also functions as a massage parlour, and abducted the army leader as well as Tun Tun, the manager of the Myanmar Economic Bank for Kalay District, and Nyein Khant Zaw, a junior clerk at 1pm on 10 December. Tun Tun Naing allegedly threatened the employees of his bank not to…
The military government sentenced Rev Thian Lian Sang to 23 years hard labour after finding the Chin Christian leader guilty of terrorism and sedition under Articles 49 (a) and 505 (a) of Burma’s penal code. A source familiar with his case told Khonumthung News on condition of anonymity that the junta sentenced him to three years on 15 June for sedition and 20 years on 7 December for terrorism. People who know Thian Lian Sang said the 42-year-old Christian leader, who worked for the Falam Baptist Church, never participated in the political movement against the military. His only crime was…