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Ultranationalist monk U Wasawa has threatened thousands of people in Sagaing to join pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia groups.

Junta troops have been raiding and torching villages in Khin-U Township since mid-July.

Pyu Saw Htee recruits accompany junta operations and they help soldiers to harm the people, villagers say. 

Regime troops are based at the controversial Wanbao copper mine in Sagaing Region and using the compound to raid villages.

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