The bodies of three men allegedly murdered by the Burma Army (BA) after being abducted a day earlier were discovered by locals in Na Moon Ter in Sagaing Region, where the army are looting and burning houses as part of a massive offensive against resistance groups and civilians in the area. Last Thursday, Pao Ting Thang and Hao Lin Mang from Yan Lin Fai and Say Hko Thang from Khun Moon Nom were detained by BA soldiers as the men hid in several buildings. A BA column arrived in Yan Lin Fai in the evening and began firing indiscriminately, burning…
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The Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) allegedly abducted three men in Tedim township, torturing them for several hours before forcing the men and their families to leave their village in northern Chin State. On Monday, ZRA Eastern Command troops abducted a teacher and police officer who’d joined the civil disobedience movement against the regime in Kyein Pee Kut. The wife of the third man who was detained is also a teacher. The soldiers took the men to a Christian cemetery outside the village and interrogated them for three hours. They were released on the condition that they move out of the…
On Wednesday, resistance groups clashed with the Burma Army (BA) in Kalay. According to the Chin National Organization, the Chin National Defense Force and a local branch of the People’s Defense Force killed four BA soldiers in the town in Sagaing Region. One-hundred and twenty regime soldiers arrived to a football field in Kalay’s Tar Han ward when they were attacked by the resistance groups, where multiple clashes have been reported in recent days. Two BA soldiers were killed in the field. Two more died when the BA was attacked in another area of the ward while they were collecting…
Burma Army (BA) offensives has driven hundreds of villagers from their homes in Kanpetlet Township in recent days. According to an officer from the Kanpetlet Township People’s Administration, the Kanpetlet Chinland Defence Force (CDF) recently helped 600 people from five villages make it to safety in southern Chin State. The villagers fled their homes but had to run away again to another area with the help of the CDF. The man told Khonumthung News when the BA suddenly withdrew from the No. 5 village-tract area, villagers from Apyine, Ngon Lawng, Ann Pon, Kyawt Taw and Chin Let Moon had to…
Fighting between the Kanpetlet Chinland Defence Force (CDF) and the Burma Army (BA) intensified in Kanpetlet Township this week, where a number of BA soldiers were killed. On 10 June, regime forces captured CDF’s Vakok camp and remained there until CDF attacked them and forced them to retreat. The BA set fire to the camp before withdrawing. A couple of days later, CDF fighters fought against the BA between Kyawt Taw and Ann Pon, killing at least 11 soldiers and wounding many others, according to their own accounts. CDF also reported that they attacked the BA deployed at a government…
Resistance groups fought with regime’s armed forces in Kalay town on Monday night. During the battle, the regime indiscriminately fired 12 shells, injuring seven civilians and their properties in Tar Han ward. “A shell landed in front of my house and I sustained minor injuries. I’m lucky that it wasn’t critical and I didn’t lose my arms and legs,” a male victim from Tar Han ward told Khonumthung News, wishing to remain anonymous. Four houses in the town in Sagaing Region were completely destroyed after seven shells hit Zone A of the ward, which has been frequently shelled by the…
Four civilian homes were totally destroyed during the regime’s artillery strike on Tedim, where according to locals, the Burma Army (BA) has destroyed over 1,000 houses and eight churches in the town in northern Chin State. According to a man who requested anonymity, the attack on Sunday night happened after the Chinland Defence Force (CDF), which is fighting against the regime, attacked BA soldiers who were at a police camp and No 1 High School in Myoma ward. The man didn’t know if there were any casualties in the attack, but said that one shell that hit near the people’s…
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…
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.…