Civilian resistance groups fighting against the dictatorship ambushed a military column in Tedim Township. According to their own account, they killed at least 10 junta fighters and wounded others during the fighting on the road from Kalay to Tedim in Chin State. According to the spokesperson for Civilian Defense Militia – Siyin, three military trucks and two vehicles sending reinforcements from Kalay in Sagaing Region to support a foot patrol trapped by Chin resistance forces were attacked by the group, Zongam Army and various People’s Defence Forces on Tuesday morning. He said the Burma Army (BA) was forced to retreat…
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Kalay volunteers have brought back villagers displaced by violence between the junta and civilian resistance groups. “They are in urgent need of warm clothes and blankets, rice, cooking oil and other food rations,” said Puia, one of the volunteers. He told Khonumthung News that villagers from Hakhalay and Muazawl had asked them to retrieve them from the jungle where they had been hiding since fighting broke out between the Burma Army and allied groups, the Chinland Defence Force and the Kalay People’s Defence Force, in Falam Township in Chin State and in Sagaing Region. Volunteers collected 121 villagers from Muazawl,…
The regime on Wednesday seized the house of a Chin National League for Democracy Chin (CNLD) MP in the capital Hakha. A local source told Khonumthung News that the forces gave Sheng Mang’s family only a few minutes to retrieve their belongings from the house in Zaythit ward before confiscating it. Sheng Mang was the only CNLD candidate to win a seat in the Chin State parliament for the 2020 election. His son, the chief physician of Hakha Public Hospital, joined the Civil Disobedience Movement against the dictatorship. In December, armed forces seized the house of Salai Myo Hteik, a…
Pu Tuidim, veteran news editor and one of the founders of BNI, killed by military council 13 January 2022 Khonumthung Media Group, his original organization, announced that Pu Tuidim, one of the founders ofBurma News International (BNI), was killed by forces of the military council on 8 January 2022. Pu Tuidim was arrested, together with 10 other civilians, on the Matupi-Hakha Road between Kelong andLonelaw villages in Matupi Township, Chin State on the 6th of January. Security forces of the military council used the 11 travelers as human shields during their maneuvers, and then killed all of them. As Pu…
Since the military overthrew the democratic government almost a year ago, the junta has killed 163 ethnic Chin. Some of them were killed by the armed forces for peacefully protesting, others were killed by artillery fire and some of them were tied up and burnt alive, according to the Institute of Chin Affairs (ICA). A spokeswoman for the ICA told Khonumthung News that the number of people killed could be much higher. “The military deliberately targeted civilians. Burma has signed the Geneva Convention and must abide by a military code of conduct by protecting civilians during the conflict. Burma Army…
The bodies of ten people murdered by the Burma Army (BA), including a minor, were found in Matupi Township after they were abducted last week and used as human shields during fierce fighting with civilian resistance groups. Ko Nway Oo Lin, spokesperson for the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) in Matupi, told Khonumthung News that a 13-year-old boy was among the deceased. An eleventh person, who was abducted around the same time as the others and forced to walk in front of the soldiers on the Matupi-Hakha road between Kee Lun and Lawn Law villages on 6-7 January, is still missing.…
The regime abducted seven civilians and used them as human shields during a day long battle with resistance groups in southern Chin State’s Matupi Township.On Thursday, 150 junta soldiers fought Chinland Defence Forces (CDF) from Matupi, Zotung and Lautu on the Matupi-Hakha road between Kee Lun and Lawn Law villages, about 20 miles from Matupi town.The CDF’s Matupi spokesperson told Khonumthung News from the frontline on Friday that military tension in the area remained very high. No CDF fighters were killed or injured in the recent clashes, he said, but could not confirm whether there were any enemy casualties where…
Three Burma Army soldiers (BA), including an officer, were killed and others wounded in a morning clash with the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) on the Matupi-Hakha road in southern Chin State. According to the Matupi CDF spokesperson, they suffered no casualties in the skirmish on Tuesday between Pha Nai and Nga Lai villages in Matup Township that forced the BA column to retreat. Another clash occurred in the evening, but he was not sure if any regime soldiers were killed. On Monday, the spokesperson said at least 5 BA soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when the civilian resistance fighters…
The military set fire to over 130 houses in Thangtlang after fighting with the Chinland Defence Force (CDF). Multiple regime attacks on the town in northern Chin State have already destroyed nearly 1,000 houses, forcing all of its 10,000 residents to flee to the Indian border or to remote villages. According to a spokesperson for CDF in Thangtlang, the group exchanged fire with the Burma Army (BA) on 3-4 January, with the regime sending a helicopter into the town on both days. BA soldiers burned down houses in Zung Mung and Kyawng wards on Monday and more homes on Tuesday.…
The military has threatened to seize the homes of civilians who fled its offensives in Kanpetlet town, warning them that they will confiscate their properties in southern Chin State within two weeks if they don’t return.A Kanpetlet local said it has already been four days since the military’s order. More than 5,000 people used to live in the town, he said, but after the fighting between the Burma Army and the Chinland Defence Force, many fled to Hsaw in Magwe Region, remote villages or to their farms outside the town. In recent days, only a few people have returned.”They have…