A battalion of the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) has withdrawn from its camp in Kanpetlet Township after two days of heavy fighting with regime forces in southern Chin State. Burma Army troops (BA) based in Kyauk Htu town in Magwe Region, launched an offensive on Kanpetlet CDF Battalion 2 on 9 June. According to an anonymous CDF source, nine BA soldiers were killed in two clashes near Ahtet Let Moon, but no resistance fighters died. The military destroyed the village’s houses and ate the residents’ livestock and abducted a villager from Ouk Let Moon. The next day, regime forces attacked…
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Letter to Editor Starting in September 2021, Thantlang town, the biggest town in Thantlang township of Chin State have encountered at least 28 incidents of arson including the latest one which occurred on May 24 & 26 during which another 135 houses inside the town were burnt down by personnel of the Myanmar Military Council. With the latest episode of arson in the town, at least 1500 houses of the estimated total of 2000-odd houses in the town have been burnt down. The arson incidents in Thantlang town have forced the locals to take flight into the nearby jungles and…
A regime shell killed three people in Kalay, Sagaing Region. According to locals, the army fired at least five shells last Saturday night. One of them hit near a house near Agape Hospital in Tar Han ward, killing two women and a man. “Last night there was a power blackout. A shell hit in front of the victims’ house when they were sitting on the balcony and they were struck by shrapnel,” a local told Khonumthung News on condition of anonymity. Two were killed instantly and the third person died several hours later. The oldest woman was 45 years old.…
An anti-regime group has called on parents to send their children to schools run by teachers who have joined the protest movement, rather than junta-run educational institutions in Mindat, southern Chin State. “We will take action against teachers and other education employees who do not join the civil disobedience movement after the people’s revolution is over, because these people are helping the military regime,” said the Mindat People’s Administration in its recent statement. The group would like the children to attend classes in the “people’s schools” controlled by its interim education board in the villages.”There is no security guarantee for…
A mother and her 11-year-old son were injured by indiscriminate regime shelling on their village in Mindat Township, southern Chin State. According to a villager who requested anonymity, at least six shells hit Madap. He said a shell struck a mango tree near the victim’s house. The boy’s right leg was blown off by shrapnel as he was leaving his house and some embedded in his left thigh. His mother suffered minor injuries in the blast. The boy was taken to Mindat town and then transferred to the hospital in Mandalay. Burma Army (BA) Infantry Battalion 274 in Mindat town…
The Thangtlang Chinland Defence Force (CDF) claims to have killed six regime soldiers and wounded eight others, while four CDF fighters were injured during a battle on 23 May in the town of Thangtlang, northern Chin State. According to CDF, they attacked a Burma Army (BA) patrol in Ward 1 of the town at around 6am, with fighting continuing for six hours. Khonumthung News cannot independently confirm the death toll on either side. After the battle ended, the regime soldiers burnt down houses in the ward, where soldiers have already torched many houses. According to local counts, the junta has…
Regime soldiers have been going door to door in Kalay Township warning homeowners to pay their electricity bills or lose their power. “They came to Tar Han ward three times,” and scared everyone, said a man, who wishes to remain anonymous. According the resident of Kalay town, armed soldiers, some of whom were carrying RPGs, delivered the ultimatum to the homeowners in Sagaing Region. A woman from the ward, who also asked that her name not be published, said the soldiers demanded that she pay her bills for the past six months within a certain period of time. ”I do…
The Burma Army (BA) have been torching village after village in southern Kalay Township, where its forces have launched an clearance campaign to drive out the resistance groups fighting the military dictatorship in Sagaing Region. In their second assault on Leh Char in the past week, soldiers from BA destroyed the remaining houses in the village last week, although no fighting was reported in the area, an anonymous source who’s helping villagers affected by the fighting told Khonumthung News. All of the 200 houses in Leh Char were destroyed by fire. A few days earlier, BA troops had also attacked…
Villagers who fled clashes between the Burma Army (BA) and the Chinland Defence Force in Matupi Township last October are running out of options as their basic food rations are almost depleted. According to a man helping them, they also lack medicine, blankets, tarpaulins and mosquito nets. Fleeing from the BA soldiers advancing on their village along the road from Mindat to Matupi, they could not take anything with them when they sought refuge on top of Ai Dup Hill. Since then, the soldiers have ransacked their houses to steal anything of value, the man explained. According to volunteers, about…
Villagers who’ve fled the regime’s forces on a moment’s notice urgently need aid in southern Kalay Township in Sagaing Region, where fighting between the Burma Army (BA) and resistance groups has been escalating since late April. Twenty villages were uprooted by clashes between the BA and the allied Kalay and local People’s Defence Forces and the Chinland Defence Force (Kalay, Kabaw, Gangaw). Currently, 3,000 villagers are hiding east of the Myit Thar River. An anonymous source who’s helping the civilians from Ashay Si affected by the violence said they need rice and medicine, as well as tarpaulins and plastic sheets…