The Matupi Chinland Defence Force (CDF) reported that at least eight Burma Army (BA) soldiers were killed, including a captain, and five were wounded in an unexpected skirmish at a junction on the Mindat-Matupi road. The fighting began after BA Light Infantry Battalion 304 entered the CDF area near Lemro Chaung Sone in Matupi Township on the morning of 20 April, according to a CDF officer. The engagement lasted 30 minutes before the resistance fighters could retreat, he told Khonumthung News. CDF expects fighting to resume after BA deployed an additional 100 troops and suspended mobile communications in the area…
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Khonumthung News: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 The Chinland Joint Defence Committee (CJDC), formed by Chin resistance groups fighting the military regime, has recognised the Eastern Command of the Zomi Revolution Organisation/Zomi Revolution Army as a terrorist group at its third regular meeting at Camp Victoria, the headquarters of the Chin National Front. Khonumthung News interviewed CJDC spokesperson Paul Lu on the matter. Can you explain why CJDC issued a statement recognising ZRO/ZRA as a terrorist organisation? We have concrete evidence the Eastern Command of ZRO/ZRA has abducted and killed our CJDC members and are also collaborating with the Burma Army…
The regime’s armed forces burnt down nearly 100 houses, including a school, in Nat Chaung where they were staying after suffering heavy losses fighting with various Chin resistance groups in southern Kalay Township. People Defence Forces, Chinland Defence Force and Chin National Defence Force killed 35 BA soldiers in raids on their convoy in several villages while they were travelling between Yan Gyi Aung and Nat Chaung in Sagaing Region. A man, who requested anonymity, told Khonumthung News that the BA soldiers started setting fire to houses near Nat Chaung’s market after they arrived to spend the night and continued…
The regime seized a People’s Defence Force (PDF) camp after ground troops overran it during a surprise attack on the resistance fighters based in northern Kalay Township. “We tried to defend our camp but finally decided to withdraw,” an officer from Battalion 3 of the Kalay PDF told Khonumthung News. Only one resistance fighter was killed in the raid on the camp in Sagaing Region Tuesday morning. Junta media reported capturing seizing 11 short-barreled guns, a 2″ mortar and 5 shells, 4 RPG shells, AK-47 ammunition, 25 handmade landmines, 8 homemade grenades, 20 detonators, a generator, 1 walkie-talkie and some…
The Arakan Army (AA) has summoned four people from each village in Paletwa Township for forced labour under the armed group ‘civil administration policy’ in southern Chin State. A local source, requesting anonymity, told Khonumthung News that AA has forced 400 Chins from 100 villages along the Pee River in western Paletwa Township to work for them after the Rakhine group seized more territory in the region since striking an informal ceasefire with the Burmese military just before the coup more than a year ago. “The locals have no choice but to work for them because they control the area,”…
Since the overthrow of Burma’s democratic government over a year ago and the establishment of a military dictatorship, the regime’s armed forces have waged a war against the population. Recently, soldiers burned down houses and a three-storey public school in a village in Sagaing Region. An officer with the People’s Defence Forces (PDF) in Kalay, one of the many groups fighting to overthrow the dictatorship, couldn’t say exactly how many buildings were burned between 10 and 11 April in Nat Chaung, but estimated that there were about 20. He told Khonumthung News that this was the third attack by the…
At least five Burma Army (BA) soldiers perished and many were wounded during an hour-long skirmish that began after the Matupi Chinland Defence Force (CDF) ambushed them last week in the latest attack on a regime convoy bringing troops, equipment and rations from Mindat to Matupi. The ambush occurred on Thursday at Milepost 87, just 15 miles from Matupi town. The Matupi CDF spokesperson said they attacked the BA at 6:40am after the soldiers had left Milepost 87, where they’d spent the night. He said there were no casualties on his side. At the time of going to press, Khonumthung…
Several youths were sentenced to two years in prison for bomb blasts in Paletwa Township. A family member said that the courts had no evidence of their alleged crimes and that the regime targeted them for fundraising for civilians uprooted by the conflict in southern Chin State. After two explosions rocked Paletwa town on the morning of 28 May 2021, the youths were arrested in the evening and charged with the Unlawful Associations Act Sections 17(1) and sedition under Article 505 (a), the relative told Khonumthung News, wishing to remain anonymous. Aik Min, Aik Tun Min, Aung Tun Soe (aka…
Chin resistance groups have been inflicting heavy casualties in several attacks on a Burma Army (BA) convoy travelling to Mutupi. The Mindat Chinland Defence Force (CDF) ambushed the convoy of 80 vehicles, including two tanks, multiple times since it left Mindat on 25 March. Resistance fighters uploaded a video on 29 March showing several landmines exploding simultaneously around the convoy carrying rations, equipment and men. CDF’s spokesperson claimed the regime suffered many casualties, but couldn’t give an exact figure. He told Khonumthung News that the military convoy, which had started its journey in Kyauk Htu in Magwe Region, had only…
Civilians in southern Chin State have fled their homes to an area controlled by the Chin resistance or to other villages after a column of the regime entered their village in Matupi Township as part of a clearance campaign. On Saturday, about fifty Burma Army (BA) soldiers entered Wei Tue village, where about 150 people live, and began arresting the residents and accusing them of supporting the resistance. They confiscated about 24 mobile phones before the villagers fled. According to the spokesperson of the Matupi Chinland Defence Force (CDF), all those who could’ve fled were gone on Monday. Wei Tue…