Last week, 30 military vehicles, including armoured ones, were spotted leaving Kalay town for Chin State. Resistance groups claim that the regime soldiers are travelling to Hakha Township. An earlier convoy leaving the Sagaing Region capital on foot arrived at Thaing Ngin Junction, said a Zoland People’s Defence Force officer (PDF). It was joined by a convoy of vehicles carrying about 100 soldiers. With the arrival of fresh soldiers deployed in the state, the PDF expects more fighting. The officer said the two columns were on their way to Falam and Hakha together and the convoy grew larger after they…
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The Chin resistance ambushed a regime column in southern Chin State, killing at least eight soldiers and wounding 15, according the groups’ own accounts. The Chin National Army (CNA) and the Paletwa Chinland Defence Force (CDF) attacked the government soldiers twice on 9 March while they were travelling from Lailinpi town to the Htebwi military camp in Matupi Township. A CDF officer reported that the first attack took place at around 11am to noon near the Lerkee Creek between Kein Kang Kon and Sakheher villages and the second clash, which lasted only 10 minutes, 20 minutes later. The resistance fighters…
The people of Matupi are running out of supplies after the military blocked the main road to the township in southern Chin State several months ago. “It’s really difficult to buy food,” a man from Matupi town said. After the imposition of martial law, the regime blocked the Matupi – Gangaw and Matupi – Mindat roads, cutting off the township, where it is fighting with resistance forces, from central Burma. There is little rice left in the shops and not enough rice is delivered to the town from the villages in the township. The source explained that due to the…
A 30-year-old woman’s leg was amputated at a hospital after she accidentally stepped on a concealed landmine when she returned home from her farm in Hakha, northern Chin State. Two of her friends who were with her when she detonated the hidden buried explosive devise next to the Khusilobo Victory Monument at 2pm on 1 March were not injured in the blast. Soldiers have planted other landmines around the town and others have accidentally stepped on them. On 19 February, a 60-year-old man lost one of his legs while collecting firewood on the Hakha – Gangaw road in Hakha Township.…
The military shot dead a man on a motorbike and injured the driver in Kalay town in Sagaing Region on 2 March. An eyewitness said the passenger’s intestines fell out after the bullet pierced his stomach, while the driver was shot in his leg and managed to flee from the soldiers in front of the Irrigation Department in Tawng Zalap Ward. Although it’s not illegal to ride a motorbike in the town where fighting with the local People’s Defence Force is frequent, soldiers sometimes shoot at bikes without provocation. However, it’s unclear why they opened fire in the recent attack.…
Three civilians, including a child, and a Chinland Defence Force soldier (CDF) were killed by shelling in Mindat Township, southern Chin State. According to an anonymous CDF officer, Infantry Battalion 274 fired an artillery shell from Mindat town that hit a house in Amlawng village, killing the homeowners, their son and Chin fighter Salai Billy Awng Thang on 25 February. “The shell landed on the house when people were discussing about issues affecting IDPs (internally displaced persons) in Amlawng. Our soldier was working in the administration department and helping the IDPs,” the officer told Khonumthung News. Two children and two…
In Chin State, the Thangtlang Chinland Defence Force (CDF) claimed to have killed many regime fighters after launching the ‘Tilim Military Operation’ in Thangtlang Township together with the Chin National Army, which began on 29 December and will last for 60 days. According to the PDF, they had killed at least 20 government soldiers and injured 25 others, including regime police officers by 26 February. The two armies fighting to overthrow the dictatorship also captured over 50 assault rifles and damaged two airships carrying rations and other supplies on 29 January and 26 February. In addition, the groups attacked the…
On Saturday, Salai Zakhariah of the Chin National Army (CNA) and Salai Lian Bawi Ceu of the Thangtlang Chinland Defence Force (CDF) were killed in a fierce battle with the regime in Thangtlang town, which the regime is trying to capture from the Chin resistance groups. Fighting in the town in northern Chin State has escalated daily since early February, when the regime sent in ground troops, but in the middle of the month it began sending in jet fighters and firing artillery from Hakha after reporting heavy casualties on the battlefield. On 16 February, CNA and CDF were stationed…
The military regime has allowed Christians to return to the church in Hakha town on the weekend without needing permission. The situation has improved for churchgoers after leaders of the Hakha Christian Ministry Fellowship (HCMF) called for an end to the blockade during a meeting with the military’s strategic commander in the town. “We just have to give them information such as the address of our church, the names of the pastors, a contact phone number and the number of worshippers, and they have allowed it,” a local pastor, who declined to give his name, told Khonumthung News. The regime…
On Saturday, a 26-year-old woman lost her right leg after she accidentally detonated a concealed landmine in Falam Township, Chin State. Pi Laltanpuii, who’s from Zokhawhta, which is located in India’s Mizoram State, stepped on the hidden explosive device near Satawm while she was on her way to visit her husband in the township in northern Chin. “Her husband returned to his parents’ house at Leilet in Falam township after falling ill,” explained a nurse at Mercy Clinic in Zokhawhta. The accident occurred about 20 miles from the village, which is not far from the Indian border. Hidden landmines pose…