Sham Amm, 59, was killed and a teenager wounded after the junta shelled a village in Hakha Township with artillery in an indiscriminate attack following fighting with local resistance forces. “She was cooking rice in her kitchen when a shell hit her house,” said a man from Neeyar Lawn, where the attack took place on 10 August. He said the teenager was in hospital. The shelling also disrupted electricity in the village of 170 houses. Fighting broke out near government housing and the district office in Hakha town around 8am before the army shelled Neeyar Lawn, which is about 7…
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A Burma Army (BA) battalion commander and several other soldiers were killed in fierce clashes with four Chin resistance forces in Rihkhawdar, Chin State, on the border with India. Lt-Col Wai Myo Pai and four other soldiers were killed when the People’s Defence Forces (PDF) raided their hilltop camp in Ward 2 for five hours on 10 August. The regime has deployed its troops on two strategically important hills above Rihkhawdar in wards 1 and 2. “Four BA soldiers ran away and then surrendered to us. Many of their soldiers were also wounded in the clash,” the Zoland PDF spokesperson…
Junta forces torched over dozens of houses during heavy fighting with resistance groups in southern Kalay Township in Sagaing Region. A local, who asked that his name not be published, told Khonumthung News that Kyauk Pawte Church was one of 52 buildings burned down by the Burma Army (BA) in Thayar Kon from 2 to 4 August. About 1,500 people, mostly of Chin ethnicity, live in 300 houses in the village, which is located on the road from Kalay to Gangaw near Kalay Technical University. Most of the villagers were able to flee when the fighting started. Residents of Htauk…
The Burma Army (BA) detained 30 villagers and murdered three of them in southern Kalay Township when soldiers occupied their village following fierce clashes with the Kalay People’s Defence Force (PDF) in Sagaing Region. An officer from Kalay PDF’s Battalion 1 told Khonumthung News that the junta soldiers torched some houses in Thayar Kon after fighting near Kalay Technical University between 2 and 4 August. There are 300 houses and nearly 1,500 residents in Thayar Kon, most of whom are Chin nationalities. Most of the people managed to escape before the BA column intruded their village. According to the Kalay…
Chin resistance forces ambushed another regime vehicle convoy transporting 200 soldiers from Kalay town to the southern township of the same name in Sagaing Region. The Burma Army (BA) reportedly suffered many casualties in the fierce fighting, which lasted over five hours. “Our troops started attacking a BA military column between Kyun Chaung and Thayar Kon at 6:30am. Later, we ambushed them at the entrance of Thayar Kon,” an officer of the Kalay People’s Defence Force (PDF) said, explaining that the regime sent 15 bodies back to Kalay town, assuming as many as 20 BA were killed. PDF battalions 1,2,5,6…
Two children are dead and three people wounded after Burma Army soldiers (BA) fired on a boat carrying ten grade 5 students and staff in Paletwa Township, southern Chin State. Maung Ne Min Tun and Maung Aung Than Myat, both 12 years old, from Reemawa were killed in the attack on the boat, which was moored at a port in Namatar on the Kaladan River. Maung Aung Lin Win, 12, suffered a gunshot wound to his back, Ma Khin Kyi Aung, 12, was shot in her leg and Padue, an educator, was shot in the right arm and suffered an…
Chin resistance groups ambushed the Burma Army (BA) on the banks of the Thee Myit River between the towns of Hakha and Thangtlang, to which the regime responded as usual with excessive shelling of the groups and civilian areas in northern Chin State. The BA have been stationed at a point on the river about seven miles from the Chin State capital since 27 July. A few days later, the Chin National Army (CNA) and Chinland Defence Forces (CDF) from Zophei, Hakha CDF and Thangtlang raided their camp. “BA attacked Chin forces with artillery from Hakha yesterday (Monday). I think…
The Hakha Township court convicted nine persons under Burma’s Counter-Terrorism Law and sentenced eight of them to five years and one to three years. A man from Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) told Khonumthung News that they were accused of being affiliated with Chinland Defence Front (CDF) but are ordinary citizens. He said they were detained for nearly five months after being arrested between February and March by police officer Tin Kyaw Thu, who charged the nine people, including a 19-year-old woman, with Articles 51 and 52. “Many of the young people have joined the people’s revolution. The Burma Army…
The Chinland Defence Force (CDF) attacked the Burma Army (BA) across Chin State in retaliation for the regime’s executions of four political prisoners last week. According to their own account, CDF soldiers killed four army personnel and wounded one regime soldier in attacks lasting one hour in Kanpetlet Township on 27 July. Resistance fighters ambushed them at three locations where they were in Kanpetlet, including several government offices and the high school in the town. In the south, the Hualngoram CDF attacked a BA camp in Rihkawdar in Falam Township on the Indian border twice from 25 to 26 July.…
The Burma Army (BA) has detained about 30 civilians from the Zotung area since launching a military operation in Matupi Township last week. Two military columns of about 160 soldiers, that originated in Gangaw Township in Magwe Region, have entered Matupi in southern Chin State, according to an officer from the Zotung Chinland Defence Force (CDF). The soldiers are responsible for abducting villagers from Zeepya, Antar and Ramsi. According to the officer, the bodies of two unidentified persons were discovered between Zeepya and Antar, whom he suspects were killed by the BA. One of the BA columns has set up…