Junta troops have shot lifeless six individuals in a raid on a village in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing area, residents and Individuals’s Protection Pressure officers informed RFA Thursday.
They entered Monywa’s Yae Kan Su village on Wednesday morning, killing 4 anti-regime troopers, two of them nonetheless of their teenagers.
Troops then shot lifeless two civilians as they tried to run away, based on locals.
Soe Gyi, performing battalion commander of Monywa District Protection Pressure Battalion-27 recognized the lifeless members of his group as 20-year-old Khin Yadanar Oo, 18-year-old Zin Zin Soe, 17-year-old Ah Thay Lay, and a 24-year previous recognized by the initials B.E.
He stated a junta column with about 80 troopers immediately arrived within the village at daybreak, taking his troops unexpectedly.
“[The camp] was raided when the patrol had withdrawn for bodily coaching,” he stated.
“4 PDF [People’s Defense Force] members had been arrested, shot lifeless on the spot and burned.”
Protection power members fired again however then needed to retreat on account of lack of help and weapons, he stated, including that troops seized hand-made weapons, bullets, communication gear, uniforms and 9 motorbikes.
Residents stated troops killed a 50-year-old and an 18-year-old who tried to flee through the raid. They didn’t identify the 2 males.
Professional-junta social media channels stated troops killed 5 Individuals’s Protection Pressure members, not 4, and didn’t point out the civilians. They stated the three males and two girls had been hiding in a village college.
The Telegram channels additionally confirmed studies that junta troops seized weapons and ammunition.
Locals stated junta troops have raided 5 villages close to Monywa in latest days, forcing round 2,000 individuals to flee Yae Kan Su village. The quantity pushed out of the opposite 4 villages just isn’t but recognized.
Practically 750,000 individuals have been compelled to desert their houses in Sagaing on account of preventing because the Feb. 2021 coup, based on the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
RFA’s calls to Sagaing area’s junta spokesperson and social affairs minister, Aing Hlang, went unanswered Thursday.
Translated by RFA Burmese. Edited by Mike Firn.
