A Burma Army soldier killed his captain and another officer after getting into an altercation with them in southern Chin State, according to a source close to the army. The fragging incident occurred at the General Administration Development office where the IB 140 soldiers are stationed after they fought with the Chinland Defence Force in Matupi Township. Another source from Matupi town heard that the two men were not killed by their comrade but died in hospital after drinking ethanol alcohol. However, he wondered how this could be possible, as it was so difficult to obtain alcohol at that time.…
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The People’s Defence Force for Kalay ambushed the military several times, killing some of the soldiers deployed to attack them in Sagaing Region. On Thursday morning, the Burma Army (BA) shelled the PDF from Kalay Technological University following the first ambush in Nagar Pwet village. Later, the PDF killed at least 15 soldiers sent as reinforcements from Kalay with landmines when they stopped near Chin Hsai while on foot to Nagar Pwet. In the afternoon, the BA burnt down houses and a chicken farm in Chin Hsai. Last Tuesday, 16 November, BA raided the PDF’s mountain camp in western Kalay…
Christian churches in Hakha Township recommended for their congregations not to hold Christmas events this year due to the threat of political violence in Chin State during the regime’s military offensive, which aims to crush civilian resistance groups but also targets everyone else. With so many Christians in Chin State, Christmas is an important holiday and its unusual for religious leaders to advise people not to gather for prayers in churches in the town of Hakha, the capital of Chin State, or hold other events to mark Jesus Christ’s birthday on 25 December. “We are especially concerned about people’s safety…
The military destroyed nearly 100 houses in Thangtlang during the ninth raid on the town in northern Chin State, already empty of residents who fled to other villages or to the Indian border during the first attack in late September. According to a civilian committee working to help the town’s displaced residents, the Burma Army (BA) destroyed 96 houses and St Nicolas Church on Saturday 27 November. Shells hit Zung Mung, Seik Pyo Yay and Lungtial wards with fires continuing until the next day. The army destroyed more than 350 of Thangtlang’s 2,000 houses during attacks on the town that…
Soldiers from the Burma Army (BA) gang-raped a 27-year-old mother from a village in Chin State’s Tedim Township and made the woman’s husband watch them before raping her pregnant sister-in-law. According to the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) for Kalay, Kabaw and Gangaw, the soldiers from Battalion 22 raped the woman in her home in Aklui on 11 November. She had given birth only a month and a half ago. “Three soldiers entered her house around 11pm. They pointed a gun at her husband’s head and beat him on the head before making him crawl into the bathroom. After that, the…
The junta’s forces have launched more attacks on Thangtlang in northern Chin State after already destroying hundreds of homes, forcing local residents to flee to other villages along and across the Indian border. According to the spokesperson for the Chinland Defence Force (CDF), a civilian resistance group that took up arms against the regime in May, the Burma Army destroyed 20 more houses in the town on Thursday 11 November. Most of them were in Seikpyo Yay Ward, but three houses were demolished in Lon Tial, near the army’s camp set up in September. The town’s 10,000 residents fled when…
During the junta’s Anawrahta offensive in Chin State, which it named after the first Bamar king who ruled from 1044-77 AD, the Chin resistance claimed to kill many soldiers during at least nine clashes that took place over the weekend with junta troops. The regime has already moved thousands of troops and weapons into Chin State to crush resistance groups after they inflicted many causalities against the Burma Army (BA) since taking up arms in May. Salai Htet Ni, spokesperson for the Chin National Front (CNF), whose armed wing, the Chin National Army (CNA), fights alongside the Chinland Defence Forces…
The family of a Chin man arrested a month ago had no choice but to hold his funeral without his body when the Burma Army refused to return the 24-year-old’s remains after announcing his death in custody. Pu Rual Cung was arrested by the armed forces on 11 October while on his way to his farm near Neyan Lawnhtar, a village about 3 miles from Hakha, in northern Chin State. His family received no information about his whereabouts until the military called them on 9 November to inform them of his death. A family friend told Khonumthung News that fighting…
The junta’s armed forces extort money from motorists travelling between Kalay in Sagaing Region and the Indian border in Chin State. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source told Khonumthung News that he was forced to pay a bribe of 5,000 kyat ($3) at each of the six checkpoints between Kalay and Rihkhawdar. ”This is too much for us,” the man said. After civilian resistance groups such as the People’s Defence Force (Zoland) and the Chinland Defence Force for Kalay and Gangaw attacked a police station and checkpoint in Khai Kam, between Chin State and Sagaing Region, killing five officers,…
The Chin National Defence Force and the Kalay People’s Defence Force (PDF) attacked the Burma Army’s (BA) Kyauk Kwe Set camp located near Pan Moon Chaung Bridge in Kalay Township for three hours on 3 November. The civilian resistance groups also ambushed a BA convoy transporting reinforcements between Si Tha and Nat Myaung villages with landmines, later firing small and heavy weapons at the soldiers. According to the PDF, the bodies of 47 BA soldiers were taken to the morgue of the military hospital in Kalay town after the clashes, while the resistance fighters suffered no casualties. The junta troops…