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…
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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 A woman from the ward, who also asked that her name not be published, said the soldiers demanded that she pay her bills for the past six months within a certain period of time.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…
The Burma Army (BA) shelled a house where people live and run a restaurant in Kalay town on Tuesday. The house owner and her daughter were slightly injured and the first floor and roof damaged in the shelling, which occurred at 10:30 pm. A man from Tar Han ward, who spoke with Khonumthung News on condition of anonymity, said that the owner sleeps on the first floor, where the KT Restaurant is located, and that the shell landed near her bed. “They were lucky that god saved them and they weren’t killed by the shelling.” A couple of hours earlier,…
The Mindat Chinland Defence Force (CDF) has killed nine Burma Army (BA) soldiers in several raids in southern Chin State. According to the group’s spokesperson, Salai Har Oum, the resistance group attacked the 73-vehicle BA column with landmines and rifle fire after it reached Mindat Township from Matupi over a week ago. “We launched a surprise attack…During the initial clash, we killed four BA soldiers and wounded three others,” he said of the ambush at milepost 71 on 30 April. Although the spokesperson was not sure if there were any casualties in the attack the following day, he said they…
At least 20 Burma Army (BA) soldiers perished during two days of fierce clashes in southern Kalay Township with the Kalay People’s Defence Force (PDF) and other resistance groups. According to the Kalay PDF,the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) for Kalay, Kabaw and Gangaw, the Ranger Kalay Defence Force, the Zomi PDF and the local PDF branch started fighting with regime troops on the morning of 2 May and continued until the afternoon of the next day after the BA column entered Shar Hpo. “The clashes between Shar Hpo and Aung Mingalar intensified on 2 May to the extent that two…