Many parts of the global society is reacting to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine by denouncing Russian President Putin’s decision of devastating attack and occupation of the Ukraine territory. In his presidency, Putin used the military power to invade and control foreign territory including South Ossetia, Crimea of Ukraine, and now parts of the north, east and south of Ukraine, which all challenged the global security and stability. On 28th, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), a South Korea-based international NGO affiliated with the UN ECOSOC and Seoul Metropolitan Government, made a statement to advocate a global cooperation…
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The Chin resistance has suffered casualties during several days of non-stop conflict with over 200 regime fighters along the Falam-Hakha road in northern Chin State. BA soldiers gouged out the eyes of a captured Chinland Defence Force (CDF) fighter before beheading him near Talan Zerl on 27 February. According to the CDF spokesperson, Salai Zer Hnin and Salai Van Bwi Biek were killed between Dok Htit and Ramhtalo on 2 March. The BA fired indiscriminately, he explained, raining shells on resistance fighters and the surrounding area during ”intense fighting”. The CDF and Chin National Army, the armed wing of the…
The junta sent soldiers to Rihkhawdar in Chin State on the border to crack down on Chin resistance groups collecting taxes from travellers on the Tedim – Haimwel – Kalay road. According to a local from the border town near India, about 40 regime soldiers have taken up positions on Teo Chaung Mountain to monitor the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) and the People’s Defence Force that are operating in the No #2 Border Trading Zone. It leaked out that on 13 February, regime-appointed Chin State Chief Minister Nguen San Awng had asked regime leader Min Aung Hlaing to send Burma…
Burma Army (BA) soldiers attacked homes in a village in the conflict-ridden Sagaing Region where no immediate armed clashes had been reported. According to a resident of Than Hpo in Kalay Township, who requested anonymity, nearly 100 soldiers torched at least two houses and attacked the area with artillery, causing villagers to flee into the jungle. The Chinland Defence Force (CDF) for the Kalay, Kabaw and Gangaw region also reported the attack on the homes and a rice mill in the village last week, but said some villagers and CDF fighters were able to extinguish the fires after the BA…
Last week, the Chin resistance ambushed two regime convoys, killing at least three Burma Army (BA) soldiers with landmines in northern Chin State. The People’s Defence Forces (PDF) spokesperson for Zoland told Khonumthung News that in the first attack at 11am on 23 February, they stopped the BA convoy in its tracks between Thine Nguen and Falam, killing the three soldiers and preventing vehicles from continuing their journey until nightfall. The PDF was supported by the Civil Defense Militia – Siyin (CDM – Siyin). Later the same day, the resistance fighters attacked a 18 vehicle convoy carrying reinforcement troops and…
A regime military convoy travelling through southern Chin State sustained heavy losses after a series of ambushes by civilian resistance fighters. According to a commander for the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) in Kanpetlet, over 20 soldiers of a 300-strong column travelling in 16 military trucks were killed and their arrival in Cin Dwe, Kanpetlet Township, where the regime is planning an offensive, was delayed. CDF regiments from Kanpetlet, Dai, Hsaw and the Chin National Army ambushed the convoy over several days between Lawng Shay in Magwe Region and Cin Dwe, a distance of 23 miles, the commander said. On 19…
The regime’s armed forces have tightened security at all checkpoints in Chin State’s capital, Hakha, to crack down on anyone using a virtual private network (VPN) to access the internet, which is banned. Violators are fined and some are even taken to a detention centre for interrogation after soldiers check their Facebook page. A local familiar with the situation, who requested anonymity, told Khonumthung News that fines of $28 are being levied and five people in Hakha have already been forced to pay them. Those taken to a detention centre were released after five hours, but one person hasn’t yet…
Chin resistance groups say they have killed 10 Burma Army soldiers and wounded many others in an attack on a convoy of 23 vehicles between Ver Lon and Theing Ngin in western Burma. According to the Siyin Civil Defence Militia (CDM) spokesperson, they and the Zoland People’s Defence Force (PDM) planted landmines in the jungle along the route the 100-man convoy was to pass on its way from Falam in Chin State to Kalay in Sagaing Region. He explained that they detonated the explosives as the soldiers, who were on foot to clear the roadside mines, approached on Wednesday afternoon.…
A Chin civilian resistance group fighting to overthrow the dictatorship has ambushed a regime convoy on the road from Matupi to Mindat 15 times in recent weeks, killing many soldiers, according to their own accounts. Yaw Mang, spokesperson for Chin Defence Force (CDF) for Mindat, told Khonumthung News that he suspects at least 20 Burma Army (BA) soldiers from the 81-vehicle convoy and two armoured vehicles were killed and many more were injured in the landmine and firefight raids. “After the military convoy reached Mindat, locals told us that 10 trucks were full of wounded BA soldiers,” says Yaw Mang.…
Fighting between junta troops and civilian resistance groups trying to overthrow Burma’s military dictatorship has prevented supplies of fuel, rice and other vital foodstuffs not grown by farmers in the remote town in southern Chin State from reaching Matupi for several months, causing the price of remaining supplies to rise exponentially or become unavailable altogether. A local source, requesting anonymity, told Khonumthung News that before the fighting, much of the rice was shipped by lorries from Pakokku in the nearby Magwe Region along the Matupi-Mindat-Hakha road. A bag of rice that used to cost $21 now costs $33. The price…