Two children are dead and three people wounded after Burma Army soldiers (BA) fired on a boat carrying ten grade 5 students and staff in Paletwa Township, southern Chin State. Maung Ne Min Tun and Maung Aung Than Myat, both 12 years old, from Reemawa were killed in the attack on the boat, which was moored at a port in Namatar on the Kaladan River. Maung Aung Lin Win, 12, suffered a gunshot wound to his back, Ma Khin Kyi Aung, 12, was shot in her leg and Padue, an educator, was shot in the right arm and suffered an…
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Chin resistance groups ambushed the Burma Army (BA) on the banks of the Thee Myit River between the towns of Hakha and Thangtlang, to which the regime responded as usual with excessive shelling of the groups and civilian areas in northern Chin State. The BA have been stationed at a point on the river about seven miles from the Chin State capital since 27 July. A few days later, the Chin National Army (CNA) and Chinland Defence Forces (CDF) from Zophei, Hakha CDF and Thangtlang raided their camp. “BA attacked Chin forces with artillery from Hakha yesterday (Monday). I think…
The Hakha Township court convicted nine persons under Burma’s Counter-Terrorism Law and sentenced eight of them to five years and one to three years. A man from Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) told Khonumthung News that they were accused of being affiliated with Chinland Defence Front (CDF) but are ordinary citizens. He said they were detained for nearly five months after being arrested between February and March by police officer Tin Kyaw Thu, who charged the nine people, including a 19-year-old woman, with Articles 51 and 52. “Many of the young people have joined the people’s revolution. The Burma Army…
The Chinland Defence Force (CDF) attacked the Burma Army (BA) across Chin State in retaliation for the regime’s executions of four political prisoners last week. According to their own account, CDF soldiers killed four army personnel and wounded one regime soldier in attacks lasting one hour in Kanpetlet Township on 27 July. Resistance fighters ambushed them at three locations where they were in Kanpetlet, including several government offices and the high school in the town. In the south, the Hualngoram CDF attacked a BA camp in Rihkawdar in Falam Township on the Indian border twice from 25 to 26 July.…
The Burma Army (BA) has detained about 30 civilians from the Zotung area since launching a military operation in Matupi Township last week. Two military columns of about 160 soldiers, that originated in Gangaw Township in Magwe Region, have entered Matupi in southern Chin State, according to an officer from the Zotung Chinland Defence Force (CDF). The soldiers are responsible for abducting villagers from Zeepya, Antar and Ramsi. According to the officer, the bodies of two unidentified persons were discovered between Zeepya and Antar, whom he suspects were killed by the BA. One of the BA columns has set up…
The Arakan Army (AA) has agreed to free six Chins abducted in Paletwa Township in June on suspicion of collaborating with the Burma Army (BA), but hasn’t set a release date. The ethnic armed group has clashed with the BA in southern Chin State several times, threatening an unofficial ceasefire with the army that was forged before it staged a coup and toppled the democratically elected government. According to a representative from the Interim Khumi Affairs Coordination Council (IKACC), which has been advocating for the freedom of the Chin prisoners, they’re trying to work out a release date. “AA has…
The Interim Chin National Consultative Council (ICNCC) has deplored the military regime for its recent execution of four political prisoners including prominent leaders Ko Jimmy, a 1988 pro-democracy uprising veteran, and Phyo Zayar Thaw, former National League for Democracy lawmaker. The two activists had been sentence to death for allegedly conspiring to commit attacks against regime targets and were gaoled since their arrests last year. In a statement on Monday, ICNCC said that the killings demonstrate the regime’s obstinance in resolving political problems peacefully as well as a blatant disregard for the wishes of the people desiring to live under…
A Chin resistance group has prepared to attack a large convoy of regime vehicles approaching Mindat town in the township of the same name in Chin State. “If the military convoy continues from Mindat to Matupi, we’ll attack it because we control that area,” the Mindat Chinland Defense Force (CDF) spokesperson has told Khonumthung News. He said the convoy of 65 vehicles started from Pakokku on 17 June and went to Kyaukhtu, both in Magwe Region, before continuing to Mindat. The Burma Army indiscriminately shelled the areas ahead of the convoy as the soldiers made their way to Mindat town,…
Burma Army (BA) soldiers who are part of a vehicle convoy travelling from Kalay in Sagaing Region to Hakha, Chin State, have torched 15 homes in a village along the route from Falam to the Chin state capital. On 7 July, the 27 vehicle convoy left Falam town in Chin State after starting in the Sagaing capital on 29 June. The soldiers arrived in Chung Cung, which is located just over 10 miles from Hakha, on the evening of 14 July. An officer from Hakha Chinland Defense Force (CDF), which is fighting against the junta in the region, said the…
Fighting has flared up again between the Chin resistance and the Burma Army in Kalay Township, Sagaing Region. According to resistance fighters, they killed about 50 BA soldiers, who were part of a convoy of 200 soldiers travelling from Kalay to Falam, in clashes between 11 and 13 July. Three regime soldiers died on 11 July when the Kalay People’s Defence Force (PDF) ambushed them between Yan Gyi Aung and Hakha Lay. The next day, several groups killed at least five soldiers between Inn Sein Ywa Thit and Si Tha. On the same day, a child was wounded by regime…