Page 5 - Dawei District News Today

Five junta navy personnel including a corporal and lance corporal deserted with their weapons from Mawrawati Navy Headquarters in Kan Pauk Village, Yebyu Township, in Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei District, at 2:00 a.m. on 27 October.

Five junta navy personnel including a corporal and lance corporal deserted with their weapons from Mawrawati Navy Headquarters in Kan Pauk Village, Yebyu Township, in Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei District, at 2:00 a.m. on 27 October.

According to the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), in the last week, there has been an ongoing rise of arbitrary arrests across all target areas of Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi region.

At least 15 junta soldiers were killed when people’s defence forces (PDFs) attacked a junta convoy in Tanintharyi’s Dawei Township started at 4:45 p.m. on 14 October.

On Thursday morning, there was a meeting of the NUG Central Committee on the Interim Public Administration. There, Chair of the Committee and Union Prime Minister stated that at least a Minister or a Deputy Minister or Secretary must attend the meetings on the ground.

Three members of the junta-aligned Pyu Saw Htee militia were shot and killed in Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei District at around 1:00 p.m. on 4 October by people’s defence forces (PDFs).

Junta personnel are kidnapping and holding small and medium-sized business owners to ransom in villages, according to the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), a local human rights organisation.

Junta personnel are kidnapping and holding small and medium-sized business owners to ransom in villages, according to the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), a local human rights organisation.

Local people claim that a Military Council informant who had received numerous warnings by a local People’s Defence Force (PDF) was shot dead on 25 August in Ekani village, Yebyu Township, Dawei District, Tanintharyi Region.

Violence has risen sharply in the southern region since the start of the year, a research group says.