Villagers Die in Myanmar Junta’s Airstrike and Arson Attack

By The Irrawaddy 1 March 2022

Two Sagaing Area villagers had been killed by a junta airstrike and an arson assault on Monday in one in every of Myanmar’s resistance strongholds.

Villagers mentioned the air raid on Thabye Aye village was launched by 4 army helicopters within the morning earlier than troopers had been dropped to torch the village which has almost 200 homes.

“A villager driving away on a motorbike was hit within the head. An aged particular person was trapped within the hearth,” a resident advised The Irrawaddy.

He mentioned almost 150 homes had been burned by the troops.

Earlier regime forces killed not less than 9 individuals throughout a raid on close by Chin Pone village and detained over 80 main schoolchildren as potential human shields for 36 hours. The troops then moved to Thabye Aye by helicopter.

Yoma Folks’s Protection Pressure mentioned about 60 troopers had been deployed within the village from two helicopters and are stationed on the village monastery.

“Earlier than the troopers had been deployed, the helicopters dropped bombs and there was additionally a fighter jet within the sky,” mentioned a resistance fighter.

He mentioned makes an attempt to shoot the helicopters with home made weapons had been unsuccessful.

Thabye Aye villagers took up arms to combat the regime final 12 months when troops got here to arrest the village’s abbot for alleged anti-junta activism. Villagers fought them with looking rifles, killing three troops and resulting in seven arrests.

Junta forces have burned not less than 4,571 civilian properties throughout Myanmar since final 12 months’s coup, together with 2,567 in Sagaing Area alone, in accordance with the unbiased analysis group Knowledge for Myanmar.

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